So this is my first post in the new blogging host. I’m still tinkering with it; you’ll probably see the banner above change at least once. A couple new things – on the side bar you not only have a calendar and archive of posts, but also a tag cloud (I tag each entry with [...]
Posts Tagged ‘language’
inauguratory post
Posted in regular, tagged blogging, introduction, language, legal status on Sunday 10 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
aneurysms, anyone?
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged frustration, language, random, TEFL, work on Tuesday 20 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Teaching your own language in another language in which you’re only just becoming fluent is a really good way to make your brain explode. It helps if they can’t grasp that the possessive ‘s goes on the possessor, not the possessed. End.
laryngitis, 50-year-olds who are 10, intensifying adverbs
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged friends, irritating, language, laryngitis, roommates, students, teaching, TEFL on Thursday 15 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Really, the fact that I haven’t posted on my blog in a long time is a good thing. It means that nothing hilariously (or non-hilariously) disastrous has happened. And it’s true; the last couple of weeks have been fairly normal, whatever that means. It was sunny and warm again briefly, which means that we spent [...]
hmmm
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged language, roommates, teaching on Friday 26 October, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By the end of this year, I’ll either speak really really good English or no English at all. On the one hand, give me a sentence and I can not only identify all the tenses involved but also explain to you exactly WHY those tenses are being used AND draw you a timeline illustrating them. [...]
cotta
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged language, pizza, students, teaching, work on Wednesday 17 October, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
cotta—“cooked.” Idiomatic usage, “exhausted.” Today I taught for six full hours; from 3:30 until 10:30: 3:30-5:30 – Private lesson with Sara. It went well but was rather pesante—all about verb tenses and which ones you use when, and why you can’t use the present perfect but instead must use the simple past (Italians always always [...]
just living
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged language, teaching, TEFL, tourists, translating on Friday 5 October, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We all feel so busy these days; everyone always has somewhere to be, even on Saturday. And yet we’re still not really working full time or making enough money to, you know, pay the rent. Yet. Anyway, now Julia goes to Vignola to work at the Wall Street Institute on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays (and [...]
