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Teaching English to adults for three months here in Germany was excellent preparation for working with non-native English speakers. I learned how to aim my own
by MandieD 5y ago
Teaching English to adults for three months here in Germany was excellent preparation for working with non-native English speakers. I learned how to aim my own word choices and pronunciation, how to extract meaning from garbled sentences, and how to find non-disruptive ways to rephrase things to confirm that I understood them the way the speaker intended and to help them confirm that they understood me correctly.
- bonoboTP 5y agoYes, but it's not really understood by most people (not just English). People think they are an expert at their own language in every aspect and can teach it well, but it's not so. For example when there's a non native Hungarian speaker, many of my fellow Hungarians are really bad at helping out with a difficulty, they don't understand what the person is actually asking, they go on a tangent and explain something totally unrelated, explain it wrong etc. But they are convinced they know what they are talking about.