What Did You Say Spanish

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ChuAnjing Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Bayannao'er Shi — Bayan Nur? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. I have attempted to learn three new languages during my life Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese. As an English native speaker Spanish should have been the easiest for me to learn, but it was the language I struggled with the most. The reason for this started to become clear as I began learning Japanese and then Chinese. The things I did not do while...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Donghuji Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huai'an Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Throughout high school and college, my favorite subjects were Chinese and Spanish. While some would say this is because of a “knack for languages,” I would argue it is because I had several amazing and motivating teachers. In seventh grade I had my first Spanish class with an exuberant lady named Ms.Lindes. Prior to the course I had no exposure to Spanish, and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Rongheng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hengyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. English has undergone many changes since its roots in early Europe. It started out as a Germanic language, and standard word order along with some vocabulary still show German roots in the modern English of today. It went on over the years to incorporate numerous words and suffixes from French during the time that England was invaded and occupied by the Normans in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in LangshAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shaoyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. “My esweater. I cannot find my esweater. Can you help me look for?” I scratched my head. Esweater? I kicked myself for agreeing to help Rosa in the study hall. Our teacher, Mr. Randall, had told me she was struggling with basic grammar and thought I might be able to help since I had spent a lot of time in Mexico and had a good grasp on both English and...  [Read more]

In a world full of languages how does one place the English language' Most languages have a full history going back thousands of years. Can this really be said of English' No, but we can say that the history is full, one full of war and violence as well as compromise and inclusion. We might start in the year 449 AD in the island of Britain. At this time the Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain as the Romans left to defend their homeland. The local Celtic people quickly adapted the ways of the German tribe and we saw the beginning of English, it is said that the majority of its words can be traced to this. As the next thousand years progressed we saw the invasion of the Danes, French Normans as well as the influence of the Church. This leads us up to the time when this small political power comes...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in LiushAnhu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xianning Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. English as a Global Language In speaking of any language being global, and in our case particularly English, there are several categories that could be discussed to give us more understanding. The first is the history of the language, where did it originate? If we say English was an obscure German dialect we can also say that without knowing more of the history...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in LijiAduan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yueyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Two years ago I had the opportunity to travel to Talayuela, Spain and teach at a two-week summer English camp. One of the most common mispronunciations I encountered was the embedded pronunciation habit that occurred with S words such as school, smile, stop, etc. Many of the words that start with S in English begin with an ES in Spanish (i.e. school/escuela,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Moudao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Why is it so easy to acquire our first language, yet such a struggle to master a second? I think the mindset we have when learning a second language is part of what makes acquisition difficult. We have a cultural concept that learning a 2nd language is hard and speaking like a native is nearly impossible. Native speakers, on the other hand, never...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhidian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhoukou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. I am not shy to admit that I am a beginner teacher. I have a degree in Fashion Merchandising and am currently a Buyer at an American company called Lane Bryant, which involves more retail math and less education! So needless to say I did not have the most knowledge about the actual act of teaching before this course. I have not only expanded my knowledge of the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shangqiu Shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Shangqiu Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| Gained a greater realization of the importance of the flow of a lesson I enjoyed the course immensely because of the breadth of subjects covered I have been an ESL trainer for more than three years and I have to say that it has been quite interesting I like how the course was both...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Niugutu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chifeng Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. I knew I wanted to be a teacher since I finished high school. I think it is the occupation I’ve born for just because of the way it makes me feel, from teaching how to dive into the swimming pool while I was a lifeguard to teach the days of the week in Spanish to a lovely Irish kids group in Dublin. Till now I haven’t known any more rewarding feeling. Starting...  [Read more]

There are many different methodologies for teaching a foreign language. Here at TEFL international, we are exposed to the ESA (engage-study-activate) method, put to use in the classroom in a total emersion context, which is quite effective, yet very different from the way that many of us have been exposed to learning a second language in our native countries. Second language study in school in the United States was always done with the ?Grammar translation? method, usually in a bilingual classroom, a different yet somewhat effective way to learn some languages. These are contrasting methods yet they seek the same result, to increase communication skills in a tongue you are not familiar with, and until you are exposed to the both of them it?s hard to say which is more effective. I have...  [Read more]

There are many different methodologies for teaching a foreign language. Here at TEFL international, we are exposed to the ESA (engage-study-activate) method, put to use in the classroom in a total emersion context, which is quite effective, yet very different from the way that many of us have been exposed to learning a second language in our native countries. Second language study in school in the United States was always done with the 'Grammar translation' method, usually in a bilingual classroom, a different yet somewhat effective way to learn some languages. These are contrasting methods yet they seek the same result, to increase communication skills in a tongue you are not familiar with, and until you are exposed to the both of them it's hard to say which is more effective. I have...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ChahA'eryouyihouqidAnglanghudong Sumu? Are you interested in teaching English in Wulanchabu Shi — Ulanqab? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In today’s society when everyone is preoccupied with busy work schedules, responsibilities, and reliance to technology we rarely have time or worse no time at all to pick up a book and read it. As adults, parents and teachers alike, we have a responsibility to our children and learners to instill a love for book and reading...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gufu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yichng Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. When working with a large group, it is important to maintain class management to ensure all students are able to learn the material. A class can easily become off task due to a lack of dominance within a teacher. I had the opportunity to manage a group of six and seven-year-old students in the past and I am aware that it can be rather difficult to keep children on task....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in JingtoushAn Nongchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Huangshi Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. T​his is a topic that interests me at several levels. In order to state my positions and views let me state up front I am an American. E​ngland of course is the homeland of the language so for me to call any part of the language as incorrect, example the u in many words such as colour, is arrogant and not a right of mine to make it a point of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinchang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jingzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Being raised in a Mexican American household, my very first words were in Spanish. My parents both knew English but it was much easier for them to speak in their native language. I enjoyed having the best of both worlds, eating tamales for lunch and having McDonald’s for dinner. I was very appreciative of being born in the United States because man those burgers...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ZhAngjiAng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changde Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. English has been a global language for a long time. And I believe it is going to continue. Some people disagree with this. Maybe they are right. But today, I would like to share my perspective. 11 years ago I had just moved to China to settle down. When I went to university for a language course, everybody was saying that Chinese is the number one global...  [Read more]

As there is a strong demand for TEFL qualified teachers in many countries worldwide, most course graduates should have little trouble finding a suitable position. However, to maximise your chances of securing the best jobs there are a few things you should be aware of. Where you should look for work, how to apply for jobs, and how to prepare for that all important interview are all covered below. Among the many attractions of teaching English abroad is the fact that you are free to choose not only the region where you would like to work, but also the specific country or even city. For some teachers the history and culture of Europe appeals most, while others are drawn to exotic destinations across Asia or Latin America. However, before you book your plane tickets you need to be aware...  [Read more]

Every year tens of thousands of people from all backgrounds leave behind their existing life and head overseas in search of fun, travel and adventure. They are able to do this by completing a TEFL certification course that gives them all the qualifications they need to apply for English language teaching jobs in countries all over the world. If you want to join this ever growing number of TEFL qualified teachers, there should be very little that can get in your way. Among the many attractions of teaching English abroad is the fact that you are free to choose not only the region where you would like to work, but also the specific country or even city. For some teachers the history and culture of Europe appeals most, while others are drawn to exotic destinations across Asia or Latin...  [Read more]