Team Tea and Scones

[LadyGrey1986]

When browsing the old HTLAL forum, I noticed there was a team for learners of English as I second language. I thought it might be nice to resurrect it here
Learning a seond language never stops, even at an advanced level.

[Systematiker]

I'll be a native speaker godparent, if you want me and there's not more qualified folks who want to do it.

I'm a US-American who has taught ESL in the USA and in Germany. I teach grad school now, primarily theology for a seminary and philosophy for a university (where my main qualifications are, I hold a research doctorate in each subject, but the philosophy one is a DA, so it's more of a generalist's degree) and team teach with the literature department at the uni. I speak standard American English and Blackwater natively, learned Transatlantic as an adult.

I think someone on this board teaches English comp somewhere, though, they may be a good choice.

[LadyGrey1986]

That would be really kind of you

[tomgosse]

I'll be a native speaker godparent, if you want me and there's not more qualified folks who want to do it.

I'm a US-American who has taught ESL in the USA and in Germany. I teach grad school now, primarily theology for a seminary and philosophy for a university (where my main qualifications are, I hold a research doctorate in each subject, but the philosophy one is a DA, so it's more of a generalist's degree) and team teach with the literature department at the uni. I speak standard American English and Blackwater natively, learned Transatlantic as an adult.

I think someone on this board teaches English comp somewhere, though, they may be a good choice.

Two questions:

• What is Blackwater?
• Where and how did you learn Transatlantic?

Thank you,
Tom

[Systematiker]

I'll be a native speaker godparent, if you want me and there's not more qualified folks who want to do it.

I'm a US-American who has taught ESL in the USA and in Germany. I teach grad school now, primarily theology for a seminary and philosophy for a university (where my main qualifications are, I hold a research doctorate in each subject, but the philosophy one is a DA, so it's more of a generalist's degree) and team teach with the literature department at the uni. I speak standard American English and Blackwater natively, learned Transatlantic as an adult.

I think someone on this board teaches English comp somewhere, though, they may be a good choice.

Two questions:

• What is Blackwater?
• Where and how did you learn Transatlantic?

Thank you,
Tom

Blast from the past in this group! It's been dead a while.

Blackwater is a dialect centered around Northern Florida - it shares some commonalities with the general Southern, and interestingly, I've recently found out, some features with Gullah as well.

For Transatlantic, there used to be some youtube recordings of a diction course for transatlantic, but more importantly, watch a lot of old films and repeat. It was way easier for European L2 speakers of English to understand me that way, which is why I picked it up.

[Aproval]

When browsing the old HTLAL forum, I noticed there was a team for learners of English as I second language. I thought it might be nice to resurrect it here
Learning a seond language never stops, even at an advanced level.

Hi, It is my first time here. I'm study English