Due to a friend already having an overloaded diary when it comes to teaching English over here in Astana, I will hopefully have a couple of new pupils soon. Although there are obviously a lot of Russians and Kazakhs that teach English as a foreign language here in Kazakhstan, there are not that many native English speakers with enough free time to have live chats, to try and improve the language skills of a pupil who has often not conversed with someone who speaks English as their first language.
I’ll obviously not be posting their personal details, but they work at KazMunayTeniz, which should look pretty good on my résumé, as my previous pupils have been school age or retired pilots etc. Whilst it was interesting teaching them, to teach people from a state run company should add a few brownie points 🙂
Oct 08 2009
October 13th, 2009 12:08 am
all good stuff, us native speakers do seem to be in demand in the city when it comes to English teaching/ speaking practice, nice guys at KMT as well (KazMunaiTeniz), very motivated.
I spoke with Lara recently about how someone once told her that the days of the week, e.g. Monday, Tuesday should be pronounced ‘mundee’, ‘Tuesdee’ etc (she knows that’s bad pronounciation) – I told her that people pronouncing the days like that would also say something like choclit instead of chocolate 🙂
October 13th, 2009 1:20 am
Thanks for your off-casts dude 🙂
Choclit? Books written with a cocoa theme?