The adventures of Russian students who study to become a teacher of English
quite ironically among the teachers of pedagogy and methods of teaching I know there are many weirdĀ teachers who like to belittle students and canāt explain clearly what they want them to do in their assignments
the local meme is college teachersā favourite phrase ābut you are future teachers!ā (so you should/shouldnāt do this and that)
once during teaching practice at a school I spent the night preparing for the lesson that our college teachers would be assessing. Suddenly when I was writing something the following day I realised that I hadnāt changed the keyboard layout from Russian into English and must have been writing something like xnjnj ythfp,jhxbdjt kfnbybwtq for a minute. After a few seconds in frustration I realised that everything was fine and that couldnāt have happened because I was writing by hand
many like throwing in English words in their speech. Thatās mostly to show off, but also because, as expressive as the Russian language is, it lacks good alternatives for some English words like challenge, guilty pleasure, abuse etc.
why do so many people want to enter our university, is this such a popular profession? Not really. The main reason is that you canāt find a good job without a degree, and as many young people donāt know what they want to do for a living, they just thinkĀ āok, Iāll just study there and at least Iāll have a degree and more or less good English, and then Iāll figure it outā
at a lesson in college a groupmate of mine answered the question āWhat is the English for [the Russian word for āmanual labourā]?ā with āHandjobā in all seriousness (and I was the only one who chuckled)
when we discuss lesson planning with our groupmates online we are too lazy to change the keyboard layout all the time so we often write in English like Ń ŠµŠ»Š»Š¾Ń ŃŠøŠ»Š“ŃŠµŠ½, ŃŃŠ“ŃŠ¹ Š²Šø Š°Ń Š³Š¾ŠøŠ½Š³ ŃŃ ŃŠ°Š¹Ń Ń ŃŠµŃŃĀ
every other cOoL English-as-a-second-language blog/youtuber has āENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?ā as their catchphrase
a few years ago I taught myself to write in cursive and for some time was proud of writing like a native speaker, before realising that itās not a thing anymore (so I unlearnt it)Ā
once I talked a girl out of starting her lesson with this tongue twister Ā I am a mother pheasant plucker, Ā I pluck mother pheasants. Ā I am the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker Ā Who ever plucked a mother pheasant.
