re: #43 Aceofwhat?

i wouldn’t hire an english teacher with a very thick accent. i guess i was presuming that their having been hired implied that they had a manageable accent. perhaps i was being too kind…

SFZ? any other teachers encounter really tough accents from English teachers?

I was an English teacher for seven years. I’ve also had English teachers with strong accents…when I was 15 and went to school in Fiji for a year, my English teacher was from India…she had a strong accent, and many of the students spoke Hindi and Fijian more than English, but she still managed to teach grammar, etc. just fine.

Her only problem was when we read Steinbeck’s “The Pearl” and I tried to explain that the kid Coyote was pronounced KAI-OAT-EE and not KOI-OAT…she was a bit of a literalist on vowel pronunciation rules.