The underwear trick only helps on the unbearably cute girl on the IT team, but she's not in my class. *sigh*
The worst part is I find myself speaking in an exaggeratedly high voice. It's the same as when I was a phone agent - it takes me a full hour after coming home to bring my voice back down to its normal octave.
I'm, like, -> <- THIS CLOSE to speaking in squeaky baby talk, and I'm not even sure why!
I call it the Customer Service Voice. Almost never have to use it while supervisoring at home (Unless I do it unconsciously... Do I do it unconsciously?)
At the end of every sentence take a small pause (like count to 2 or 3) you will relax and slow down just by taking that brief bit of pause, or at least that's what worked for me.
Just drop off the manual with a thud on each of their desks and head home. lol. Don't let Zoi get away w/that comment! She has a supervisor voice too! It's the Zoi-I-Don't-Suffer-Fools-Gladly-Do-It-This-Way-Now-Steamroller-Voice. I have the supervisor head roll, evil eye and finger wag.
I think I will actually give someone a D-Bag memo at some point. Screw PC-ness and HR.
I was kinda expected a much higher standard group of students, they may speak slower, which is normal for most HongKong nese..they do know English but always afraid to speak in public. btw, you are a good teacher, just that you are dealing with a different ethnic group may terrifies you. Have fun
No, really - I was never meant to be a teacher. I got into fistfights in junior high when asked to help friends with their homework. I just don't have the patience.
After the first couple days, they've relaxed a lot too. Their spoken English is pretty decent, there's one who has a very thick British accent and another who has a distinct midwestern US accent, and the other students seem to have more difficulty understanding those two than me. I think it's just because they slur their speech a fair bit. I'm pretty proud of most of them though - they're doing as well as any group of trainees we've had, and they've had much less time in training.
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I don't think my FAST! is all that dependant on nerves, but the more nervous I am the worse my jokes get.... -_-;;;
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The worst part is I find myself speaking in an exaggeratedly high voice. It's the same as when I was a phone agent - it takes me a full hour after coming home to bring my voice back down to its normal octave.
I'm, like, -> <- THIS CLOSE to speaking in squeaky baby talk, and I'm not even sure why!
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Don't let Zoi get away w/that comment! She has a supervisor voice too! It's the Zoi-I-Don't-Suffer-Fools-Gladly-Do-It-This-Way-Now-Steamroller-Voice. I have the supervisor head roll, evil eye and finger wag.
I think I will actually give someone a D-Bag memo at some point. Screw PC-ness and HR.
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btw, you are a good teacher, just that you are dealing with a different ethnic group may terrifies you. Have fun
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After the first couple days, they've relaxed a lot too. Their spoken English is pretty decent, there's one who has a very thick British accent and another who has a distinct midwestern US accent, and the other students seem to have more difficulty understanding those two than me. I think it's just because they slur their speech a fair bit. I'm pretty proud of most of them though - they're doing as well as any group of trainees we've had, and they've had much less time in training.
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