Get out and explore your world with the #Language Garage! $55/hr private, under $20/hr small group, great teachers, #free resources. #Chinese #English #ESL #French #German #Italian #Japanese #Korean #Portuguese #Russian #Spanish #Swahili #LanguageLearning #languages
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Whether #ESL, French, or Elvish, language teachers can use translated versions of #Free5e for immersive game-based learning, building adventures around vocabulary lists and cultural details. #TTRPG https://buff.ly/7bE2ozT
Get on the road to a new #language!
$55/hr private, under $20/hr small group, great teachers, #free resources. #Chinese #English #ESL #French #German #Italian #Japanese #Korean #Portuguese #Russian #Spanish #Swahili #LanguageLearning #languages
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Getting caught up on stuff I fell behind on while teaching that extra #AdultESOL class January to March.
For example, finally finished a script for #Google Sheets that will create Forms in the given languages automagically. Easiest way I know of to get multilingual Forms.
Next, a Sheets script to create Forms and email to editors and respondents.
Then, I'll create the diplomas in #Scribus. Use #ScribusGenerator (https://github.com/berteh/ScribusGenerator/) to "mail merge" them.
Get on the road to a new #language! $55/hr private, under $20/hr small group, great teachers, #free resources. #Chinese #English #ESL #French #German #Italian #Japanese #Korean #Portuguese #Russian #Spanish #Swahili #LanguageLearning #languages
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EASE Nordic webinar: English as the lingua franca of academic publishing
Tues 25 March, 3.30pm CET / 2.30pm GMT
English is academic publishing's lingua franca, but English is the second language for most people in Nordic countries. How do English and Nordic languages influence each other? Has Nordic language culture changed due to this?
Register for free at: https://ease.org.uk/event/ease-nordic-webinar-english-as-the-lingua-franca-of-academic-publishing/
Get on the road to a new #language! $55/hr private, under $20/hr small group, great teachers, #free resources. #Chinese #English #ESL #French #German #Italian #Japanese #Korean #Portuguese #Russian #Spanish #Swahili #LanguageLearning #languages
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I dread facing my English learner and friend Iryna next week. I’m part of the collective American betrayal of her country. My past 3 English learners have been Ukrainian and all three have made the most of their temporary protection by the U.S. to work, care for their children, and contribute to their communities. We are sending them back to misery and perhaps life under a hostile government.
#ESL #SlavaUkraini
ELT is not representative of all identities.
LGBTQIA+ identities are human identities, along with race, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, Global South, and more, many of which intersect.
Without allies and people coming together to collectively speak up, there will be no change. Individuals working on their own may make a big noise, but are very unlikely to make an impact when it comes to inclusion.
The open letter is just one way to show solidarity, so here's what you can do:
- sign the letter (and don't forget to verify your email)
- share the letter, particularly in ELT/ESOL/EFL circles and groups (I'm no longer on Facebook or Instagram, so can't share there directly)
- if you have a newsletter, or mailing list, I'd be most grateful if you'd share the link there
- if you'd like me (Peter) to write something for a blog, a newsletter or an online (or print) publication, get in contact at admin@iamnotataboo.com
#IAmNotATaboo #Inclusion #LGBTQIA #ELT #ESOL #ESL #TEFL #DEIB #DEI
https://openletter.earth/an-open-letter-to-the-english-language-teaching-industry-25a94707
@molegato artist or dev or anything... this is just sound #lifeAdvice. Or is it advise? #esl #apologiesForMyEnglish
Nach 25 Jahren macht ESL Play zu.
War schon lustig damals.
To be fair, it later says (with a strong trill)
My point is that even the single r doesn’t equate between these languages. In American English, we pronounce “r” in the back of our throats. A Spanish “r” is essentially how U.S. Americans pronounce the “tt” in butter - tongue pushing off that ridge behind your teeth. I am curious to know the history here
Research shows it cost between US$250 and $350 to study English in the Philippines, depending on the course duration, location, and class size. ESL courses in the West will be double the cost in the #Philippines. #ESL #travel #tourism
https://businessmirror.com.ph/2025/01/29/phl-is-5th-top-choice-for-japanese-learning-english/
Floating the idea of cross-posting the website blogs on a platform such as #Medium. Potentially, there's more engagement there than simply on a blog. Thoughts?
(And not behind a paywall or members only either)
#LGBTQIA #Section28 #Education @edutooters
#ELT #ESOL #ESL
https://medium.com/@iamnotataboo/36-years-section-28-viciously-enacted-19e919c0ac2f
This is something I’m increasingly becoming frustrated at in my industry.
English Language Teaching, or #ELT, #ESOL, #TEFL, #ESL is dominated by cis white, non-disabled, neurotypical, heterosexual, Global North values and ideals. Even all the plenary sessions at this year’s #IATEFL will be all white (#ELTSoWhite) - and I’m fed up of hearing my own voice, and other cis white Global North voices.
This is why trying to reach underrepresented communities via the #blog is so important to me.
Ideally, I’d love to have guest blogs from one or more of the following communities, intersectional or not:
- trans, non-binary, gender fluid
- Black, non- white
- disabled
- neurodivergent
- Global South
- any sexuality not heterosexual
It would help if you worked, or studied, in ELT - however, not essential. I’d also be interested in having stories of educational experience as a #Queer person in your country, and your experience and consequences of not seeing yourself represented in lesson materials. I want to show what invisibility does to the Queer community in education.
If you feel you can, please do get in touch via the website - and also please share to communities that I’m unable to reach. Thank you.
#Today https://social.vivaldi.net/@iamnotataboo/113888518278826085
I was wondering if there would be a point in creating a set of diacritics for English with the goal of making it easier for children and adolescent or adult learners to acquire proficiency in reading and oral comprehension, think niqqud in Hebrew. It seems someone put this idea into action - they called their project FUNetix: https://funetix.org/home-2/
However, there is no research on the results. Bummer.
Short week for #k12 classes this week. Struggled to get my #HighSchool #EnglishLearners to free read today, but I expect that is mostly down to a 2-day week and it being Friday.
Prepping for #AdultESOL. Got a lot done during the 2 days off for weather, but now have to redo the course calendar that I just redid b/c we missed class on Tuesday. We missed Thursday also, for non-weather reasons, and so the redone calendar needs to be re-redone. Good chance to teach prefixes, at least.
