Temat: Native speakers suck!
Andre Chmielewski:
OK, I'm gonna vent here.
I'm a "native speaker" and I have to say that I tend to think that the vast majority of them suck.
They are generally flakes who have some deep emotional personal issues and feel that running away from them will solve all their problems! Hence, they change countries every few years (if they even stay a full year). They think the Illuminate is following them, or that Bush is being manipulated by UFOs, or just have a serious drug problem.
I used to try to recruit them to come to Poland, now I really don't want anything to do with them!
YES! YES! YES!
Read Dave's ESL Cafe, or 'polandforum.com' or whatever it's called. Plenty of them there with issues about Rothschild/UFO/Jewish/Soviet/Halliburton/New World Whatever conspiracies. Or go to 'Someplace Else' at The Sheraton (providing it's just after payday), or at a pinch 'Bar Below' to hear it all live.
They give professional language teachers a bad name. Which is serious, since most language schools are owned by Polish businesspeople who eat such 'teachers' for breakfast. But on the other hand, if somebody actually CAN teach and manage a lesson at the same time (two different skills), it comes as such a surprise to the clients that real teachers can have a good time here. When I recruit, I try to find people who are: a) here anyway, b) not a nutcase, c) aren't dying of hunger, and d) don't scare students. I'd say where my best source is, only other people would start mailing them.
But until I figured out how to do it, I'd hired so many fuckwits who argued with students (# rule number one, Pani Direktor is never wrong), or got lost on the way to lessons (I showed the guy where - it was opposite our office, not ten miles away), or just lost the plot (the students don't want lessons based on polemic texts the teacher has written on the philosophical aspects of the justice system). Nor do paying clients want teachers who never bathe, cut themselves and tell people about it, preach politics/religion, or don't know the difference between a non-defining relative clause and the schwa.
Jon M. edytował(a) ten post dnia 25.06.08 o godzinie 20:09
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