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Teacher Trainer’s blog learning Spanish
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I'm With Stupid Senior Member Vietnam Joined 3978 days ago 165 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Vietnamese	Message 1 of 2 07 October 2013 at 10:06pm \| IP Logged
	If anyone's ever taught English in any sort of serious way, then you've probably come across the books of Scott Thornbury. He's currently one of the professors on the New School's TESOL masters programme in New York. And I constantly hear on this website about so-called experts who don't actually speak any other languages, or engage with the ordinary language learning community, so I thought you might be interested in his blog about his struggles learning Spanish. He is already at high B2/low C1 level, from what I've read. Here's one entry: So just how bad is it? And another: What are classrooms good for? Obviously if you click on the title bar, you can read the blog from the start. Edited by I'm With Stupid on 07 October 2013 at 10:07pm 4 persons have voted this message useful
emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5337 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, French^B2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map	Message 2 of 2 07 October 2013 at 10:44pm \| IP Logged
	That's a great blog, and I really admire his willingness to dive in and write about his language-learning process. Thank you very much for the link; we should add it to the wiki somewhere. EDIT: I snipped a link to COE level details and a few related comments, based on further reading of his blog. He's been in Spain for decades, and trying to fix deeply-rehearsed errors. So the usual CEFRL stuff is not very informative in his case, and trying to correlate a couple of his detailed self-assessments against various level descriptors is highly misleading. But again, awesome blog, and thanks for the link. Edited by emk on 07 October 2013 at 11:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful

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