so burn on, you little candle
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What kind of drunk are you? by kai-olin AskReddit
I'm pretty much just me, except stupider, a little less aware of when I'm being boring and a little more sentimental. But if I go into the evening's festivities thinking about trying it on with a girl, I turn into a creepy hound. It's got to the point where I drink shandy around girls that I'm a little bit attracted to, rather than let them see the drooling go-on-gimme-a-kiss nuisance that I'm at risk of turning into.
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Where Can I TEFL Without a Certificate? by revtrotin TEFL
Don't teach without a certificate. You don't understand how difficult teaching is and how much you need to learn.
Is there a cheaper way to get certified by taking a test without a course? by bosswoodfoxin TEFL
Wielding the English language well is a very small part of what you need to know to be a teacher. I would advise in the strongest terms against trying to skip your professional training before you begin teaching.
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Your favorite sentence in any book, ever? by MrUmbrellaPantsin books
"And it was at that moment, as she blew out the candle, lubricated it, and forced it up his arse, that I realised I didn't love Charlie any more."
– Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
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Tall people of Reddit, what are things you experience that we short folks would never even realize? by headtotheleftin AskReddit
But, speaking as a teacher, being in basically that "looking down the shirt" position whenever you talk to a girl, even if you're looking straight at her face, is less nice. I tend to stand a couple of feet back when I talk to someone, since it makes the angles less open to misinterpretation.
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Bilingual people, what is a time where someone insulted you or talked about you in a language they didn't think you knew? by covert888in AskReddit
I've told this one before, but it's the perfect fit for this thread.
I teach English to kids in Spain, and when they're older than about eleven I only speak English to them, so they often think I don't understand Spanish. One day, two girls and a boy were having a discussion, while I was trying to teach the class, about penises: the best size etc. I let them carry on talking, and after they exhausted that topic, they started talking about me, commenting on my appearance and basically calling me an idiot. They were referring to me as "ese tío" ("this guy", but literally means "this uncle").
My opportunity had come. I wheeled round on the girl who had been saying the dirtiest things in the penis discussion and barked, "No soy tu tío, pues no me llames tío" ("I'm not your uncle, so don't call me uncle"), literally the first words of Spanish this class had ever heard me speak. She stopped dead, and two or three seconds passed before she said, "¿Hablas español?" I just stood there nodding as the look of horror spread across her face.
What kind of drunk are you? by kai-olin AskReddit
I'm pretty much just me, except stupider, a little less aware of when I'm being boring and a little more sentimental. But if I go into the evening's festivities thinking about trying it on with a girl, I turn into a creepy hound. It's got to the point where I drink shandy around girls that I'm a little bit attracted to, rather than let them see the drooling go-on-gimme-a-kiss nuisance that I'm at risk of turning into.
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Where Can I TEFL Without a Certificate? by revtrotin TEFL
Don't teach without a certificate. You don't understand how difficult teaching is and how much you need to learn.
Is there a cheaper way to get certified by taking a test without a course? by bosswoodfoxin TEFL
Wielding the English language well is a very small part of what you need to know to be a teacher. I would advise in the strongest terms against trying to skip your professional training before you begin teaching.
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Your favorite sentence in any book, ever? by MrUmbrellaPantsin books
"And it was at that moment, as she blew out the candle, lubricated it, and forced it up his arse, that I realised I didn't love Charlie any more."
– Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
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Tall people of Reddit, what are things you experience that we short folks would never even realize? by headtotheleftin AskReddit
But, speaking as a teacher, being in basically that "looking down the shirt" position whenever you talk to a girl, even if you're looking straight at her face, is less nice. I tend to stand a couple of feet back when I talk to someone, since it makes the angles less open to misinterpretation.
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Bilingual people, what is a time where someone insulted you or talked about you in a language they didn't think you knew? by covert888in AskReddit
I've told this one before, but it's the perfect fit for this thread.
I teach English to kids in Spain, and when they're older than about eleven I only speak English to them, so they often think I don't understand Spanish. One day, two girls and a boy were having a discussion, while I was trying to teach the class, about penises: the best size etc. I let them carry on talking, and after they exhausted that topic, they started talking about me, commenting on my appearance and basically calling me an idiot. They were referring to me as "ese tío" ("this guy", but literally means "this uncle").
My opportunity had come. I wheeled round on the girl who had been saying the dirtiest things in the penis discussion and barked, "No soy tu tío, pues no me llames tío" ("I'm not your uncle, so don't call me uncle"), literally the first words of Spanish this class had ever heard me speak. She stopped dead, and two or three seconds passed before she said, "¿Hablas español?" I just stood there nodding as the look of horror spread across her face.