The adventures of Russian students who study to become a teacher of English
quite ironically among the teachers of pedagogy and methods of teaching I know there are many weird teachers who like to belittle students and can’t explain clearly what they want them to do in their assignments
the local meme is college teachers’ favourite phrase “but you are future teachers!” (so you should/shouldn’t do this and that)
once during teaching practice at a school I spent the night preparing for the lesson that our college teachers would be assessing. Suddenly when I was writing something the following day I realised that I hadn’t changed the keyboard layout from Russian into English and must have been writing something like xnjnj ythfp,jhxbdjt kfnbybwtq for a minute. After a few seconds in frustration I realised that everything was fine and that couldn’t have happened because I was writing by hand
many like throwing in English words in their speech. That’s mostly to show off, but also because, as expressive as the Russian language is, it lacks good alternatives for some English words like challenge, guilty pleasure, abuse etc.
why do so many people want to enter our university, is this such a popular profession? Not really. The main reason is that you can’t find a good job without a degree, and as many young people don’t know what they want to do for a living, they just think “ok, I’ll just study there and at least I’ll have a degree and more or less good English, and then I’ll figure it out”
at a lesson in college a groupmate of mine answered the question “What is the English for [the Russian word for ‘manual labour’]?” with “Handjob” in all seriousness (and I was the only one who chuckled)
when we discuss lesson planning with our groupmates online we are too lazy to change the keyboard layout all the time so we often write in English like хеллоу чилдрен, тудэй ви ар гоинг ту райт э тест
every other cOoL English-as-a-second-language blog/youtuber has “ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?” as their catchphrase
a few years ago I taught myself to write in cursive and for some time was proud of writing like a native speaker, before realising that it’s not a thing anymore (so I unlearnt it)
once I talked a girl out of starting her lesson with this tongue twister I am a mother pheasant plucker, I pluck mother pheasants. I am the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker Who ever plucked a mother pheasant.