That was my first response when my Spanish tutor, Myrian, asked me to attend her English class last Thursday and teach Possessive Pronouns for 30 mins. I, for sure, ain't that good in English :), but I decided to go ahead with the challenge. Myrian, has five Chilean students on Thursday afternoons and wanted a "true native speaker" to teach a small portion of her two hour class to help the students be exposed to different English accents (mine is MinnesOOOtan).The class went well despite the student's understandable terror and nervousness to practice talking with me. I was impacted (again) on how difficult it must be for people to learn English. English grammar is so crazy and haphazard. I am thankful that Spanish is more consistent with its grammar rules.
I plan to attend this class again in the near future and continue to develop these new friendships and help in any way I can, even if it's just encouragement.
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What a cool opportunity! You should use some tricks from our Spanish class at Northland and make them do a skit in English. That was one of the most difficult things besides praying.
By the way, Talitha is here at camp with her family for our Hispanic Retreat.
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