Private ESL Classes In Mexico
If you want to give private English as a second language (ESL) lessons in Mexico and be successful at it, first you need to know how much to charge and second you need to know how to avoid the pitfalls...
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Instituto Allende: Study Spanish language and Art in San Miguel de Allende
The Instituto Allende is a Spanish language and Art school in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. I recently attended sculpture classes there, and found it enjoyable and worthwhile.
Classes o...
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On the road to enlightenment
UNAM
UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY - MEXICO
NORTH AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP NETWOR (El Net)
TEC ...
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Michoacán's rural education
Michoacán Index
Gracias y Credits
The State:
State Map
Introduction to Michoacán
The Meseta Purepecha - Exploring Michoacán
Alternative Tourism in Michoac...
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How to plan realistic communicative practices in the ESL classroom
Would you ever walk up to someone, shake their hand and start to describe what you're wearing? "Hi. I'm wearing a beige T-shirt, blue jeans, a black belt and black shoes." No, of course you wouldn't be...
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Communicating across cultures
ICEBERGS
CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE
HIGH- AND LOW-CONTEXT CULTURES
WHAT HAPPENED?
A VERY EXPENSIVE MISTAK...
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Star reading: astronomy in Mexico
INSTITUTO DE ASTRONOMIA
MEXICO CITY SKY
MAYA ASTRONOMY PAGE
CARL SAGAN OBSERVATORY AT CERRO AZUL
OTHERS A...
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Idioma Idiota, Or ... I Was A Spanish School Dropout
I used to believe that I was one of those people who had a knack for learning languages. I must have picked up this idea from my mother when one day during my formative years, I overheard her saying "S...
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There's a Word for It in Mexico
Here's a nifty idea for a book for both Spanish language students and for people interested in Mexico. Author De Mente has found an effective way to reach both groups with a volume that takes a studious and careful look at 130 key words in Spanish and has written a couple of pages on each one. In the process, the reader is treated to a variety of knowledgeable tours through Mexican history and sociology and customs that would be hard to find elsewhere.
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Inner versus outer qualities: My friendships with Mexican people
" Mexicans prize the individuality and the intellectual and emotional uniqueness of each person. They regard the innate alma or "spirit" of the individual as the most important of all human qualities a...
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Mexico's popular sayings: A taste for dichos
O.K. I admit it! I love 'dichos' (sayings or proverbs). Not, 'nachos' or 'ponchos', but dichos! Yes, those little nuggets of folk wisdom distilled down through generations of wise ...
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Learning Spanish by immersion: Does it work?
Imagine a language course that starts off with the instructor giving a monologue that lasts all of sixty minutes, delivered almost entirely in Spanish. What our teacher, Hugo, gave us on that first day was a rundown, delivered at a normal conversational pace, on what we could expect in the next month. There were very few English words used, other than those we obviously didn’t understand. The only saving grace for us was that Hugo repeated his message constantly in several different ways.
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