{"id":174,"date":"2009-06-10T16:58:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T13:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/en\/?p=174"},"modified":"2014-03-12T16:40:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T14:40:42","slug":"i-want-an-english-teacher-teaching-should-be-done-exclusively-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/2009\/06\/10\/i-want-an-english-teacher-teaching-should-be-done-exclusively-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI want an English teacher\u201d &#8211; \u201cTeaching should be done exclusively in English?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in\">I have made an account at Linkedin.com. It has proved to be very good, as I have met many serious people, did lots of business and I have seriously increased the circle of my friends here in Romania (and not only). Soon I will write to you more about networking sites and this one especially, but today this is not my point\u2026<br \/>\nLast week I decided to offer to my colleagues English lessons, so as to help them improve their level (making sure that all of them will know better than me\u2026). <!--more-->For this reason I have placed an announcement at several groups, where I am member:<br \/>\n<strong>\u201cSearching for an English teacher, to teach my colleagues in my company. At least for 3 months period, starting immediately. We are interested to focus on Business English.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong>I have received several replies, most of them by serious professionals, but there was a lady who really shocked me\u2026 She replied to my post, with the following question:<br \/>\n<strong>\u201cTeaching should be done exclusively in English?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">My mind is already too slow and this answer made it freeze 100%. I could not understand what she meant, so I considered that she was joking. Thus I replied to her accordingly:<br \/>\n<strong>\u201cI am sorry, but do you really consider it possible to teach someone English language, using Chinese or French???\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">No, I was wrong, she was not joking\u2026 I understood it from her reply\u2026<br \/>\n<strong>\u201cWell, in this world everything is possible. I assumed that you and your colleagues were Greek and needed somebody who knew greek as well. By the way, how do you suppose Chinese and French learnt English?\u201d<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">What can I say? Sometimes I realize how small I am comparing to the entire universe of knowledge that exists around me and I feel really confused, as I don\u2019t understand the deeper meaning of the words\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">(PS. Yes, she is an English teacher who wrote \u201clearnt\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have made an account at Linkedin.com. It has proved to be very good, as I have met many serious people, did lots of business and I have seriously increased the circle of my friends here in Romania (and not only). Soon I will write to you more about networking sites and this one especially, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[238],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}