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| Gallo1801 Diglot Senior Member Spain Joined 4901 days ago 164 posts - 248 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), Croatian, German, French | Message 9 of 13 16 June 2012 at 12:10am | IP Logged | ||
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I feel so much more confident teaching Spanish to someone than English. (English is my
mother tongue, and Spanish my first foreign language learned young) The reason being is that we, at least in the states, aren't taught much about our language; we just study literature. But learning Spanish and learning moods, tenses, and everything else, I can give people reasons why something is wrong or correct - in English I can only say what "feels right". I always joke that my German friends speak better English than I do. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Wanabe Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4335 days ago 18 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish | Message 10 of 13 16 January 2013 at 2:13am | IP Logged | ||
It's interesting that you should say this. I was just remembering how it was my High School German teacher who in the process of teaching "German Grammer" actually gave me my first remembered exposure to English grammer other than recognising the parts of a sentence. Edited by Wanabe on 16 January 2013 at 2:13am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Majka Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic kofoholici.wordpress Joined 4656 days ago 307 posts - 755 votes Speaks: Czech*, German, English Studies: French Studies: Russian | Message 11 of 13 16 January 2013 at 9:45am | IP Logged | ||
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In my life, I had only handful of native teachers. One Russian at the college (for one semester), and of course when I went to UK for my very short stay there.
The teacher who helped me most was a non-native in high school. Not even, strictly speaking, my teacher. I needed to pass a school exam in German and I didn't take it in the school. I learned it in "language school" - this was an afternoon and evening school teaching languages exclusively to children and adults. Yet, this high school teacher took 10 minutes in a week to teach me. In short, she taught me how to the learn language on my own, gave tips how to sound better and did very short check on my progress. I didn't learn anything new but I learned to consolidate my knowledge and to speak freely. It was the most valuable lesson in my life in regard to languages. In my opinion, to teach a beginner you don't need to be at C2 level or native. One doesn't need large vocabulary. Good grasp on grammar and skilled use of limited vocabulary is preferable here, at least for me. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sterogyl Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4366 days ago 152 posts - 263 votes Studies: German*, French, EnglishC2 Studies: Japanese, Norwegian | Message 12 of 13 24 March 2013 at 3:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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There are even teachers that have no more than a B1 or B2 level and who teach beginner's classes. I know someone personally who teaches a beginner's French class and I suspect this person to be lower than B2.
When it comes to teaching a great deal depends on the personality. You must love entertaining a group of students. There are people who have attained a very high level in a foreign language but who are unable to speak "freely". (I don't know how to put this, I don't mean general fluency here.) As a (senior) high school teacher for a foreign language you don't need more than C2, but you need a C1+ level, I'd say. A little bit more than a beginning C1 level. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| baskerville Trilingual Triglot Newbie Singapore scribeorigins.com Joined 4245 days ago 39 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog* Studies: German*, Japanese Studies: Hungarian | Message 13 of 13 07 June 2013 at 4:55pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, I agree with your point on having a qualified native speaker when studying at an advanced level. Native speakers would know more of various nuances in grammar/expressions. For more basic level, I prefer non-native speakers. Somehow, having a native speaker teach me at a basic level intimidates me :) That's what happened to me in Spanish class. On the other hand, I had non-native speakers for 4 modules of basic Japanese and somehow that inspired me -- if they can do it, so can I. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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