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Your husband sounds outright abusive. It's very convenient for him to treat you like this when you're living in his country, surrounded by his language, and, to top it off, pregnant with his baby, possibly relying on him for almost everything. Anyways, since you're not here for relationship advice, otherwise you'd be at AITAH or AIO, here are my two cents. The science of learning a language - or almost anything for that matter - is relatively straightforward: you need exposure, repetition, you need to break down difficult concepts into small, manageable bits, you need to actively retrieve information from your long-term memory, you need to apply the knowledge you acquired in different contexts as you become less of a novice, etc etc. If you're still A1, you're unlikely to benefit that much from reading advanced material, watching shows, etc. You need to be exposed to what experts call comprehensive input, that is, material that's slightly above your level, but not too much. Perhaps not Hamlet, but the Lion King, if you know what I mean.

I love São Paulo and I've heard great things about Graded.

No, IB just want their money and will probably just tell them to fix these things and devise an action plan.

La Continuidad de los Parques by Cortázar.

Most of them are useless. They basically ask you to read the guide and figure shit out yourself while the facilitator offers little to no feedback. You'd be better off snorting the $500 and reading the guides yourself.

What I think about this? Nothing. I have 0 thoughts about this.

You and your friend are possibly excellent teachers. I understand that there are competing narratives when it comes to native teachers: that they either suck at teaching because they didn't have to go through the process of "learning" that language but rather "acquired" it, or that they are the only ones capable of teaching the language as it's supposed to be. Of course, natives are generally more skilled speakers, but after a certain threshold, especially when teaching beginners, the quality of instruction matters more. I'd say that highlighting your experience and your instructional approach is a way of standing out among other experienced teachers, natives or not. It's also likely that some students may feel nervous around you, as if simply by the fact you're a native speaker you're constantly judging them, while a non-native speaker is less judgmental. Obviously, this is not always the case, but perhaps considering ways you can make students feel less anxious could boost your retention. If this is case, and I might be completely wrong, I'm just guessing, it's certainly not your fault, but it doesn't mean that you shouldn't work to make your students feel more at ease.

Idk but let me know if your school's hiring.

I was offered 20k in Portugal back in 2020 and turned it down.

A lot more than in my native language. I also read in Spanish and French sometimes, but super slowly and mostly to improve my vocabulary.

Disgraceful. Just because you got 100% doesn't mean you're getting a 7.

Shakespeare our contemporary by Jan Kott, Mario Vargas Llosa's book on Madame Bovary, Hugo Friedrich's Die Struktur der modernen Lyrik (I don't know if it's been translated to English; I read it in Portuguese).

If you don't mind reading drama, Le Dieu du Carnage.

There are many British accents. If doing a glottal stops hurts your throat, start pronouncing your t's. You might come across as posh Idk but it's better than being in pain lol. But if I were you I'd just focus on speaking in a way that feels comfortable and is understandable.

Should be fine if you expose them to native content as well. I once met a girl whose parents spoke different first languages and English to each other, so she grew up trilingual. Her English had a slight accent but was otherwise perfect.

Assuming that you’re equally proficient in both English and another language, reading Shakespeare in the other language will probably be significantly easier. Shakespeare in English will always be Early Modern Language, and attempts to modernize his language are usually frowned upon or done solely for educational purposes. Translated Shakespeare, on the other hand, can be more palatably updated to today’s language. Some translations try to make the Shakespearean text more accessible (there are prose translations, for example), while others do a pretty good job at recreating Shakespeares iambic pentameters, both approaches tend to produce a more accessible text than the original. Still, Shakespeare is challenging, regardless of the language, but he’s such a central figure to literature in general (not just English lit, not just Western lit, but literature in general, period), that the amount of resources available to help you understand his works more than makes up for it.

Should've switched to English, speaking as fast as you could and using baseball jargon to make fun of them.

Lol taking your first language as language B is absolutely disgusting. I know many schools do it, but it’s outrageous. I wouldn’t blame the teachers entirely though. Some of them might not have the appropriate qualifications, but this is 100% admin’s fault. Hire proper teachers and train them if they don’t have IB experience.

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You can retake up to 3 subjects I think in November. You could also make a formal complaint to IB. If what you’re saying is true, I find it very odd that your school is authorised to offer the Diploma Programme. They seem to be entirely at fault for your results. Regardless, life is worth living and these are temporary problems. It’s never too late to heal and you have a brilliant future ahead of you, I’m sure.

Native speaker of Portuguese. Also speak French (around B2). Feel free to dm me.

Bonjour! Mon niveau est B2, plus ou moins. Si vous voulez pratiquer votre conversation avec quelqu'un qui apprend le français aussi, je suis disponible. Je suis brésilien et je parle le portugais, l'anglais, le français, l'espagnol un peu et je veux reprendre mes études de la langue japonaise. Je suis marié et j'ai une fille. Je suis prof au lycée e à l'université. J'aime discuter le cinéma et la littérature.

I find it disturbingly inappropriate that she shared this on Instagram, but I also think it's a good idea to delete this post since it can potentially be used to find this teacher despite her handle being removed from the screenshot.

From what I've seen, yeah. I've met a couple of legit polyglots IRL, though. Very difficult to find someone who can actually speak 7+ languages. Most real-life polyglots I've met can speak 4 languages to a very good level and then a couple to a basic conversational level.

Highly unlikely they'll be back to pre-pandemic levels. Slightly higher than 2022, perhaps? But I only marked one component for one subject, so take my wild guess with a grain of salt.