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Subject:
Finding the best school to improve my Englisha skill in Chicago($50.00)
Category: Reference, Education and News > Education Asked by: yasu1965-ga List Price: $50.00 |
Posted:
03 Apr 2006 23:21 PDT
Expires: 03 May 2006 23:21 PDT Question ID: 715228 |
***outline*** I've just come to Chicago from Japan 1 week before and now working with ten local staffs. I can do almost everything regarding daily communication and business meetings. Furthermore, I want to imrove my English skill especially pertaining to speaking flufluency and grammatical accuracy. My present TOEIC score is 940. ***requirement*** I am looking for the best school or teacher to let me achieve my purpose in Chicago. If its quality is good, I don't concern about its fee. Moreover, it is favourable to be near downtown. |
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Re: Finding the best school to improve my Englisha skill in Chicago($50.00)
From: mikomoro-ga on 04 Apr 2006 04:32 PDT |
If cost is not a factor, I would recommend a personal tutor every time and I suggest that you advertise in a local paper and see who pops up. |
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Re: Finding the best school to improve my Englisha skill in Chicago($50.00)
From: purplecloud-ga on 07 Apr 2006 01:56 PDT |
Dear Yasu1965 I'd like to suggest you contact The Japan Area Language Teachers Association (JALT) to see if any of their members are currently living in the Chicago area. JALT is an association of teachers of English (and perhaps other foreign languages) in Japan. It has a long history of excellence. JALT members tend to be extremely professional and usually have lived in Japan for many years, teaching English. The JALT website has a forum where you could post questions. The link is http://forums.jalt.org/ I think JALT members will have had more experience teaching business people than other teachers of English as a second language. Also, they will have more access to materials specifically designed for Japanese students of English. Best wishes! AM |
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Re: Finding the best school to improve my Englisha skill in Chicago($50.00)
From: purplecloud-ga on 07 Apr 2006 01:58 PDT |
To clarify my previous posting... you might use the JALT forum to post a message asking if any JALT members are currently living in the Chicago area. Sorry about that! |
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Re: Finding the best school to improve my Englisha skill in Chicago($50.00)
From: myoarin-ga on 07 Apr 2006 03:25 PDT |
Since you are really quite fluent in English, I expect that what would help you most would be tutoring or a course in speech or elocution, perhaps one of the sites linked here: http://il.allpages.com/chicago/education/additional-educational-opportunities/special-interest-schools-or-instruction/public-speaking-speech-schools/ You are quite right to start immediately to improve your accent, before constant English speaking ingrains traces of your Japanese accent and maybe speech patterns, making it later more difficult to correct them. I expect that most of your friends and colleagues will be happy to help you eliminate grammatical errors if you ask them to do so. You may feel uncomfortable about doing this if you are senior to them, but they will appreciate your own recognition that you know you may be making a few mistakes and be pleased to help you. Again, if you wait too long, they will stop hearing them and just accept that that is the way you talk, and again, the mistakes - bad habits - will be more difficult to change. I speak from the experience of decades living in the country of my second language. :-/ Good luck! |
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Re: Finding the best school to improve my Englisha skill in Chicago($50.00)
From: yasu1965-ga on 11 Apr 2006 22:17 PDT |
Thank you so much for very useful comments regarding my question. As one of comments pointed out, my typical Japanese accent and ingrained speech patterns frequently annoy me. I'm going to check and try all web sites and associations which you commented on as soon as possible. Again, thank you so much for your kind and very useful comments. |
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