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[arisha]

So assuming my reregistration goes through and my name hasn't been blacklisted or anything, it looks like I will be going back to school in January and Romance languaging it up! I'm still kind of grumbly about the fact that I have to take a whole bunch of French to even get into the teaching program, but I guess it's nice of them to want you to be employable? I loled when I found a university that lets you do your practicum teaching Korean, because apparently there is only ONE city in this province where you can do that, and even there you have to teach weekend classes because no regular school offers it! Man, am I totally wrong in thinking that Korean is the ~trendy language~ these days, or are schools just really slow in picking up on this stuff?

I'm looking forward to taking more Spanish though. <3 But not so much looking forward to taking first year English, what the heck!! I love how I was able to graduate without it but now EVERYONE WANTS ME TO HAVE IT. :|

Overall though I guess I'm excited. After so much limbo it feels good to finally have some sort of plan. And lol, I love how I'm suddenly so into it. Pretty much after ESL last week I was all "OH MY GOD TEACHING LANGUAGES IS AMAZING BRB LOOKING INTO THIS RIGHT NOW!!!" xD Speaking of, I went to ESL again today! My favourite part was when the teacher wrote a sentence on the board and went through it word-by-word, all "Spanish speakers, don't leave out this word! Arabic speakers, don't leave out this word!" Last week she warned Japanese speakers not to stick "Because" at the front of a sentence fragment and call it a sentence. I guess when you've taught ESL for a while you can kind of predict the mistakes that students from different backgrounds will make! xD;

Also, because you guys aren't already bored by this entry, I was talking to one of my co-workers about my back-to-school plans, and his suggestion was "Why don't you learn a language related to Japanese, like Chinese?" Add that to my list of misconceptions my co-workers have about languages! It can go right under "'draco dormiens nunquam titillandus' can't possibly mean 'never tickle a sleeping dragon' because that has a different number of words!" :3 (lol actually I shouldn't complain, because the co-worker I was talking with has previously teased me about my degree and so I did appreciate his actually being supportive!)

Comments

[frauleinfrog.livejournal.com]

Wait, so are you going back for your teacher's degree? What about JET? (Either way, pretty cool, I'm just confuzzled. XD)

Ahahaha, you have no idea how many writing assignments I see where kids start their sentence fragments with "Because" and then call it a sentence. Guys, if you would just put a comma and a lower-case b, we would be totally copasetic~

*snort* Yes. Chinese and Japanese are so closely related. XD

[arisha.livejournal.com]

I still have like two semesters of pre-reqs to get through before I can even get into the teacher's program. :c I'm still gonna apply to JET, but this way I'll have one semester of pre-reqs done whether I'm accepted or not. And thus less to do when I get back, if I am! :)

Chinese and Japanese are so closely related. XD

lol I am so tired of all the misconceptions people have about East Asian languages that I feel I will be seriously tempted to teach about it no matter what subject I am supposed to be teaching at the time. "Welcome to Spanish 101! Our first lesson will be on how to tell Chinese and Japanese and Korean apart."

[frauleinfrog.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. Well, that plan makes excellent sense. You mentioned English 100- what else do you have to take?

Hehehe. That would be awesome! I have to admit, though, it still strikes me as wicked strange that Japanese is an isolate. *sigh*