#foreign teacher

[gzteacher]

I'm still here.

I work for a school directly now and we've finished a school year.

This was me at one point trying to find an apartment in China:

I was legit considering living in a hotel because of this. I posted on WeChat explaining the situation and the secondhand embarrassment my local acquaintances experienced moved two in particular to step in and help me find a place to stay.

I didn't want to talk to the school's HR because she was hounding me about why I didnt have a Chinese girlfriend. She asked with her whole chest during the interview if I was changing jobs because of a woman.

Even as a fluent Chinese speaker, going to those housing agencies and watching them call up landlords and explain to them that a foreigner wants to rent, only to overhear the landlord asking "white? or black?" was never not embarrassing.

Everyone was all "dial 123456 and report them!" Tried that. I was all automated prompts which then lead to an app I had to download but then couldn't use because I didn't have a Chinese ID. No surprise, honestly, but was worth the shot I guess? (A lot of institutions are designed on purpose to be exhausting. You can know this in a place like China because they'll tell you straight up: If you wanna complain about is, dial this number. Good luck lol)

It was only luck that the person who reached out to help me was the random gym trainer who added my WeChat after searching for a place to workout literally 2 days prior.

Fast forward to now. School's out. Typical shenanigans: students making accidentally racist microaggressions. One kid commented that "it doesn't look right having a teacher who should be a rapper or basketball player; I don't think you're professional and can't take you seriously." And after the whole apartment malarkey, I could only give him a look, shrug my shoulders, chuckle at his inbred ignorance and keep teaching. Too tired to give the you-probably-haven't-learned-this-about-yourself-yet-but-you're-racist talk. It's 2020something, I'm saving my energy.

I'm just here to save up to leave. That's all. I now have friends in a different country and I'm working to collaberate with their career endeavors more intensively.

I'll be out of here soon enough. Just need to get a few things in order.

[lackadaisycal-art]

This is a deck of Happy Families cards I drew for my mum / myself, since it's a great game to teach kids "Have you got?"/"Do you have?" "Yes, I have."/"Yes, I do." in EFL classes, and her old deck from the 90s was in tatters

[teacherstudiies]

April 1, 2023 |

Grading a class test. I was never this person who blamed social media for spelling and grammar problems. But slowly, I do think it has an impact on the current middle and high school students. How could schools compensate for that? I wonder. 

[wall-maria-around-ba-sing-se]

“I hate Tatsu, he’s the worst character in Xenoblade X”: boring, cliché, 50/50 chance the person saying this simply picked it up off the internet. he’s not even that bad, really

“I hate Bozé, he’s the worst character in Xenoblade X”: sublime, informed, 100% chance the person saying this has not only played the game but likely has also beaten it and completed all of the affinity quests

[hi-i-am-a-sock]

as both a language learner and a part-time english tutor, here's a tip for you:

if your foreign language teacher with whom you have another language in common asks you why? or a similar extra question during the lesson, try to answer using your target language. even if your level is A0.5. even if you don't know half of the words you need and replace them with their equivalents from other languages. even if you botch the grammar completely.

because it's a challenge and we know that. it helps you a) come out of your comfort zone, b) think outside the box (how can i say it if i don't know how?), c) practice what you know but might have forgotten/aren't sure about, and d) probably learn something new

take the risk!!! it is worth it! try to say at least something! we aren't asking you just because we genuinely care about the reason, we also want to see what you can do in tricky situations. we know there's an easier path and trust me, it makes a big difference when students don't take it

if there is a possibility — try. we don't want you to give a correct answer. we aren't expecting you to.

p.s. one more thing: if you do want to try but your neurodivergence and/or mental health is stopping you, it is perfectly valid to take the easy path. performing under stress is even more complicated in these cases — been there done that (still doing). you aren't in any way less because there's an extra obstacle on your way. take your time <3 but remember: tricky above-your-level questions aren't really about correctness. we aren't going to judge you

[spanishwithmariana]

¡Hola Spanish Learners and Langblr Community!

Hi everyone! I'm Mariana from Mexico 🇲🇽

I'm really excited to start this blog to help you with Spanish. Whether you are already learning or just interested in the language, you are welcome!

I've created this blog specifically to help you with any doubts about the Spanish language, so feel free to leave all your questions here ✉️

I've also created a podcast where you will find resources to enhance your Spanish skills, I just uploaded the first episode as introduction, where I explain the content you're going to find, and you can watch it here.

My purpose is to help you get better and better at Spanish. For that reason you can find all the transcripts for free in each video of the channel!

Well, that's all for now, I hope you a succesful journey learning Spanish and see you on the first episode! Thank you for reading.

¡Que tengas un bonito día!

☁️ Mariana

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[languageboutique]

[c-rowlesdraws]

Hmm. Just saw this ad.

I actually very, very badly wanted to become an English teacher at one point when I was younger. If I had, I wonder how many incidences of students trying to pass off AI-generated essays, poetry, etc as their own work I’d be encountering right now, and how I would even catch all of them amid the busyness of my day, and how I’d talk to students about it.

[sapphire-weapon]

you wanna hear something really spicy that I’ve been keeping to myself throughout this whole debacle about Leon’s wiki page? bc the whole thing forced me to go back and read through Darkside Chronicles files, and um...

We say that Leon was STRATCOM prior to the DSO being formed. There is absolutely no evidence to support this. The citation that the wiki gives for it does not say that that’s who he worked for, either. According to the games (and that interview), Leon was just... vaguely military, referred to as a “military operative” until RE4, when he formally gets the title “Agent.” In the actual RE games, STRATCOM is only mentioned by name in RE: Dead Aim, which Leon has nothing to do with. 

The only time that Leon was ever mentioned by anyone in Capcom as being part of STRATCOM was in an interview about an early build of RE3.5, which was ultimately scrapped and turned into Haunting Ground. 

The version of RE4 as it was released had Leon fill the role of federal law enforcement with the title of “Agent” -- a title that Bruce McGivern, the only known STRATCOM member in RE, did not have.

You could maybe assume that Leon was in STRATCOM prior to RE4 because that’s the purview under which the Anti-Umbrella Pursuit Investigation Team fell, but there’s no evidence of that anywhere in the games or any supplemental material other than a comment made about a version of RE4′s story that doesn’t exist.

In fact, the conflict/story in the version of RE4 that actually released had nothing to do with Umbrella, so it doesn’t make sense to me that the US would reach for someone in the Anti-Umbrella Pursuit Investigation Team for a mission like rescuing the President’s daughter. This is made even more evident by the fact that the intro to OG RE4 has Leon stating explicitly that his role in the federal government was protecting the President’s family -- not pursuing anti-Umbrella leads.

It seems very weird to me that Leon being STRATCOM is accepted so widely as simple canon fact, when Capcom seems to have gone out of their way to avoid saying that that’s where Leon was or what he was doing. If Leon ever was STRATCOM, he stopped being it at some point between Operation Javier and RE4 -- which is what, I think, was implied by the statement of Adam Benford “headhunting” Leon. Leon was pulled out of whatever military ops program he was in and shifted to federal law enforcement between OJ and RE4.

Though -- it is important to note that this delineation is only made in the OG timeline. Remake seems to imply that Leon is still in the same whatever federal organization that he’s been in since day zero with the government -- but even then, Remake does not use the word “STRATCOM.” It’s only referred to as a “top-secret government program.” And USSTRATCOM itself is not a top-secret government program, as evidenced by the fact that they have their own website with photos of their highest ranking officers plastered right on the front page LOL

And, completely unrelated --

going through those DSC files made me realize that what little Spanish Leon can actually string together was very likely taught to him by Krauser, who is fluent. There’s a file of him talking Spanish to a local during Operation Javier. So, there’s a little bit of fun trivia for you guys.

[werewolfetone]

Learning languages is all fun & games until they start throwing long and short vowels at you

[conquerthenight]

Bringing “Ich Gehör Nur Mir” to my next voice lesson I’m so fucking ready!!!

[kenonade]

ughghghhghghghgh wip,,, wip!!!

saw les mis last night and it finally made me investigate enjorlas and grantaire which had the effect of sparking enthusiasm for gregstophe again,,

[chilapis]

Last post before I crash and no-one hears from me until I return from my first final the morrow’s eve (a changed man no doubt) but there’ll never be anything funnier to me than consistently being viewed as a composed and calm saviour by peers while I’m, actively and uncontrollably losing it.

[jkriordanverse]

Idk if yk but Linh's name isn't pronounced something like Lin, it's actually pronounced as Ling. Also yes, the h is after the n. It's Linh, not Lihn.

[polgeonow]

And here's the current update to our Sudan control map, which is free for all readers!

[spanishwithmariana]

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