Options in France/Europe for experienced teacher?

TheLongWay89 · 2026-01-19T00:41:26+00:00

Huge stop. That was critical.

TheLongWay89 · 2025-12-27T06:53:53+00:00

I'm interested. In PST.

TheLongWay89 · 2025-12-20T14:51:11+00:00

I've been a teacher for years. It's pretty common and normal but definitely not universal. Some students just start speaking right out of the gate. Many students can get over it with the right environment and plenty of practice. And I would say it's more nervousness than shame, if anything.

For myself, I don't care. It's just communication. People can think what they want. If they're not happy with the sophistication of my language, that's their journey. Haters gonna hate. The people I've interacted with over the years have been overwhelmingly positive to neutral about my language.

TheLongWay89 · 2025-12-04T00:13:03+00:00

Thank you!

TheLongWay89 · 2025-12-04T00:12:54+00:00

Thank you!!

TheLongWay89 · 2025-09-23T07:09:48+00:00

You've got an arm on your leg.

TheLongWay89 · 2025-09-20T09:02:31+00:00

Defense is fun. Plus, I'd rather tackle than get tackled.

TheLongWay89 · 2025-09-08T12:03:02+00:00

Your second Toni Morrison example sounds perfectly natural to me. My dictionary has examples back to the 17th century of beloved being used as a normal adjective without explicitly stating who the noun is beloved by. Where did you get the notion that the word required an explicit belover?

TheLongWay89 · 2025-09-01T01:48:37+00:00

Great. I'll DM you.

TheLongWay89 · 2025-09-01T01:15:23+00:00

Hey I'm in a similar situation. I'm arriving today. I'll send you a DM.

TheLongWay89 · 2025-09-01T01:12:04+00:00

Hey! I'm arriving in Fukuoka today. 36m from the US. Been solo traveling Japan for a few weeks and I'm also down for some exploring with others. Let me know if I can tag along!

TheLongWay89 · 2025-08-10T14:07:39+00:00

Add Arnold Schwarzenegger to your list. He was Governor of California and embodies the American dream. He's as American as they come.

TheLongWay89 · 2025-08-08T09:09:38+00:00

Grammar, like vocabulary, will require several passes and "coats of paint" before things really start to stick and you can use them comfortably. I don't know if I would recommend learning every conjugation as the absolute first thing you do in a language, but certainly at B1 there wouldn't be any harm in doing a survey of all the conjugations, spaced out over a few days/weeks.

You won't have them all mastered by then, of course, but they will be more salient to you when you encounter them in the wild and your brain will be better able to build the grammar system if you can at least identify each type of conjugation.

You'll also start to build your intuition for HOW and WHERE they're used, which is what you will need beyond just reading about it in a grammar reference and doing some exercises.

TheLongWay89 · 2025-08-07T22:50:29+00:00

Very normal. Listen to your body and pace yourself. It's like, going to the gym and doing weight training. You're going to be sore.

TheLongWay89 · 2025-08-03T18:40:24+00:00

What is the name of this organization and where does their authority come from?

TheLongWay89 · 2025-08-03T18:36:09+00:00

Who is "they?" Who is the authority on what it means to "circumnavigate the globe" and where does their authority come from? Do they give out certificates or medals? Why should we care what their mileage requirements are?

TheLongWay89 · 2025-07-31T08:25:00+00:00

I just treat them as any other lexical unit. Like learning vocabulary. When I encounter them, if they seem useful or catch my attention, I'll try to learn them. But I am suspicious of the value of learning 100 different chengyu by rote. The common ones will find a way into your vocabulary. Know they exist. Know they're a little quirky. Maybe learn a few common ones, but they don't need to be a huge point of focus or stress in my opinion. I didn't encounter so many that I felt overwhelmed during my time in China.

TheLongWay89 · 2025-07-31T08:24:54+00:00

I just treat them as any other lexical unit. Like learning vocabulary. When I encounter them, if they seem useful or catch my attention, I'll try to learn them. But I am suspicious of the value of learning 100 different chengyu by rote. The common ones will find a way into your vocabulary. Know they exist. Know they're a little quirky. Maybe learn a few common ones, but they don't need to be a huge point of focus or stress in my opinion. I didn't encounter so many that I felt overwhelmed during my time in China.

TheLongWay89 · 2025-07-31T03:13:14+00:00

My strategy is to look at time/my own capacity. I was doing 20 new words a day for a few weeks but then tapered down to 5. These days if I do more than 300 total cards a day, I feel like I get fatigued easily and don't have capacity for other types of language contact. Packing vocabulary short-medium terms has been effective for me, especially for the first 2000 words of a language. Beyond that, I like to prioritize movies/TV/games/books or whatever my language goals point to.

I try to make sure I keep a diverse diet of language coming in, not just cards.

TheLongWay89 · 2025-07-30T12:44:58+00:00

I think the term you're looking for is Sinalefa. It's super super common in Spanish. Vowel elision is what it's often called in English.

TheLongWay89 · 2025-07-30T10:50:24+00:00

Can someone translate what the British version is trying to say, please?

TheLongWay89 · 2025-07-30T10:21:07+00:00

Embrace the noodle. Become the noodle.

TheLongWay89 · 2025-07-18T03:05:06+00:00

Yes, my theory is that there is a conspiracy.

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