Can it be said that my Spanish teacher is not qualified to teach?
I have enjoyed speaking Spanish to people in public, and using it in everyday life. I have done five full school years of Spanish including Spanish 1 in 6th and 7th grade. Now I am in Spanish 5 in 12th grade. These are the basic yet significant criticisms I have of her.
She has a DEFINITE English accent when she talks. It's not that I can't learn words from her, but part of the language is learning how to make out words in different types of sounds, and learning those sounds. That's the beauty of learning it in the first place.
When she says things, she sounds like a complete American accent, which is degrading to me as a student and my abilities. Her saying "yo estoy,", for example, just sounds pathetic.
She makes numerous and unacceptable grammatical errors. She mistakes the el, ella, and usted preterite tenses with the yo. She said she begun something in the el, ella, and usted verb conjugations. She does this VERY often when she speaks, so much that a good listener will easily notice. The first day I noticed over ten mistakes.
Last but not least, she stutters when she speaks, and uses English WORDS when she "loses" her train of thought. When she tells the class directions of what to do for the day, she says it in the most basic form possible, with many gramatical errors. No verb conjugations in the subjunctive too much or out of the ordinary adjectives, just things like "Quierow kay AHcer tu tarea ahora," very demeaning to our abilities.
It's not so much that I can't learn words from her, in fact it's more about learning grammar techniques the right way. The best analogy I can give would be a pure foreign accent like Chinese IN the English language. This is almost exactly how this "teacher" talks in Spanish.
Thank you.
@Howarda- It is quite said that you tell someone who is native in a language that they cannot explain you and are and grammar, which for the record I started when I was in 2nd grade- AFTER I knew the knowledge of life and things in this world.
It is even more that you think that getting better at a language is soley using it. THIS IS the specific most important way to improve your foreign languages skills, yet one must make sure they are doing things correctly, or else they WILL confuse things like you and are, and numerous other verb conjugations in the foreign language, especially the subjunctive ones.
I will tell you that it IS possible for someone to sound fluent after many years of study, and my mom is one of those people. You unfortunately have an inability to read questions, because the question was NOT involving whether the teacher's speaking had a foreign accent. It was the fact that it was SO bad that it didn't even resemble a Spanish accent.
So stop having your a
attitude, and consider the grammatical mistakes I mentioned as well. Maybe we should discuss your reading abilities next?
@Rusty- Apparently you don't know the difference between qualities TO TEACH, and just qualities to be a teacher. You need to to think and realize that if she didn't get her teaching degrees, I would not have mentioned something. The question implied if she was able to TEACH well. Look up the definition of teach before making assumptions and failing to read simple English.