GERMANY
Don't be misled by the title of this post. My grand academic inauguration was less in the way of me leading a class, but standing by the teacher after a short introduction of myself, and then sitting at the back to watch the kids do short presentations on Britain's history from the Romans to the Normans. Then we did stuff on phonetics and word pronunciation, which threw me a bit as I've never used, let alone learnt the phonetic alphabet and all it's fun little symbols. But, seeing as my English has really come on these past 20 years, I wasn't in the black too badly.
This class was made up of kids predominantly from former Soviet-Bloc countries who need a little extra assistance with pronunciation and whatnot and the class is taught entirely in English. Its also made the whole name learning process a little more difficult; I'd mentally prepared myself to remember a decent selection of German names for emergency use if I'd forgotten someone. And now all of a sudden I have Olga and Svetlana and Anastasia taking up my brain space. God bless that kid called Tim. What considerate parents he has.
Don't be misled by the title of this post. My grand academic inauguration was less in the way of me leading a class, but standing by the teacher after a short introduction of myself, and then sitting at the back to watch the kids do short presentations on Britain's history from the Romans to the Normans. Then we did stuff on phonetics and word pronunciation, which threw me a bit as I've never used, let alone learnt the phonetic alphabet and all it's fun little symbols. But, seeing as my English has really come on these past 20 years, I wasn't in the black too badly.
This class was made up of kids predominantly from former Soviet-Bloc countries who need a little extra assistance with pronunciation and whatnot and the class is taught entirely in English. Its also made the whole name learning process a little more difficult; I'd mentally prepared myself to remember a decent selection of German names for emergency use if I'd forgotten someone. And now all of a sudden I have Olga and Svetlana and Anastasia taking up my brain space. God bless that kid called Tim. What considerate parents he has.
