best English-learning school

[Doyle Phillips]

From the standpoint of a teacher of English,
do you have an opinion, gossip or fact that
would indicate which is the best of the several
language schools in Guanajuato?

If you wish, reply by email. Thanx. DP

[admin]

Do you really want to learn English here in Guanajuato?

[DonJuane]

Funny as it may seem, that actually may be what more of us need than we are willing to admit. I know when I first was trying to come up with a plan to escape the US many years ago, my mind was reeling ..... could I use my SCUBA training to find work .... or could I be an English teacher. Then a friend shared a ton of material for her role of English as a second language teacher and at that point I realized I can't teach English - because I no longer know it. I can't even pick out my own split infinitives unless they slap me in the face. And I won't even tell you what comes to mind when I speak of a dangling participle :-)

And if that doesn't wake anyone up about how much they forgot, just wait till you attempt to learn Spanish and almost every reference is to some relative English part of speech. You start in on your Spanish and the teacher says, this will be easy because the prederiate demonstroive pronouns are used in Spanish just as they are in English (to which I am thinking to myself no s$%^!!! Sherlock,,,, you don't say!!) :-)

[MNRon]

English Grammar for Students of Spanish, by Emily Spinneli, has helped many a Spanish student figure out English grammar as it relates to Spanish. So things like "gustar and similar verbs take indirect objects that look to English speakers like subjects." ;)