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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.
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- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
The qualification for teaching is having an undergraduate degree in that subject. That does not mean that someone has native speaker proficiency. When people have native speakers of the language, they complain that the teacher can't explain the grammar. Most people can't explain the grammar of their native languages. I'm betting that you can't explain what a modal verb is, or what the rules for using "the" are in English, either. Anyone who learns a language after the age of about 11 is never going to sound like a native speaker. And it doesn't matter much if your teacher has perfect pronunciation because you'lre now too old to get native speaker sounds. The goal is intelligibility.
You don't become fluent in a language by memorizing grammar rules. You become fluent by using it. In fact, you'd be better off if she didn't do any grammar explanations at all.
So lose the attitude, and just work on improving your own Spanish.
- Anonymous4 years ago
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Source(s): Your Spanish Virtual Teacher http://enle.info/SpanishLanguageLessons - Anonymous8 years ago
Yes, I think your teacher is not qualified to teach. I've also had a teacher like that my junior year. She couldn't say one coherent sentence in Spanish and her accent was really bad. Even the worksheets she made contained grammar mistakes. I'd try to get out of that class if it's still possible because you won't learn anything from that kind of teacher. I've had friends who sticked with it and they said their pronunciation actually got worse from attending her Spanish class. Just because your teacher has an undergraduate degree in Spanish doesn't mean she can actually speak. Spanish majors spend lots of time analyzing Spanish literature in English.
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- Anonymous5 years ago
teach them a word or phrase then throw a ball around the class and then they can repeat what the word/phrase is in eglish then in spanish. use nusery rhymes, acting/roleplay, stories in english then ask them what that sentence means in spanish. games of 11's when you go around the class and they say 1-3 numbers but the person who sais 11 has to sit down and then the person left standing at the end has to count up to 11 to win a prize, or duck duck goose for animals as you could use different animals each time, or fruit salad. you get the jist lol.
- Anonymous5 years ago
Anyone preparing on traveling to a Spanish-speaking nation sometime in the subsequent months or so have to make a program so that can make a dissent conversation in Spanish or just to recognize when folks speak to them since by the time your journey rolls all around you should be conversationally fluent or fairly close to it with the aid
