Posted by Sigismund on March 22, 2010, at 21:08:22
In reply to Re: Are you bitter? You may be mentally ill! » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on March 22, 2010, at 1:23:22
I did a crappy little course here, the sort they have now with the user pays thing with which I'm sure you are familiar. It gave me a certificate, and I have a BA.
(The Vietnamese have not experienced enough of progress to be disillusioned with this sort of stuff. At my hotel there was a psychologist giving volunteer lectures on clinical psych. He was there to tell them that psychology is not a science, and that unmeasurable things (personality of the therapist!) are more important. But of course they are dazzled by science, technology and progress.)We know some people who do it either as volunteers or paid or both, and the idea came from them. My wife actually got paid, more than a million Dong. I never expected to be paid. I told them what I thought of the course and said I wanted to learn how to teach English, so I was involved in conversation classes.
I think there might be an opening for conversation classes around themes with 5 or so people in each group.
Say you have a PhD in physics and want to learn to speak English better. The class could be formed around a theme that was helpful.
Or say you were in the tourist industry, the same could be done.The adults are a delight to help. They are so eager to learn. The young man who was on the desk of our hotel knows at least Vietnamese, English, is learning French and has started on Chinese.
And you FEEL different when you say Vietnamese words. I would so like to have been multilingual.
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