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#2 (permalink) Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:16 pm Wife of Guatemalan Spanish speaker in Michigan |
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Welcome to the forum, emmasma
You could start by putting your husband on the mailing list for Alan's e-mail newsletter and printing it out when it arrives: http://www.english-test.net/newsletter/#2007 _________________ "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." ~ Abraham Lincoln |
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Yankee I'm a Communicator ;-)

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#3 (permalink) Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:42 pm Wife of Guatemalan Spanish speaker in Michigan |
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| Yes, but he gets stubborn when I suggest stuff to him. If it comes in the mailbox, and I have nothing to do with it, thats what I'm looking for. |
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Emmasma New Member
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#4 (permalink) Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:29 am Wife of Guatemalan Spanish speaker in Michigan |
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Emmasma, I've had students who are like your husband. He will probably not learn English until he is more embarrassed by the consequences of not knowing English than he is by learning the language. As an example, I can cite one student of mine who never cooperated in the English lessons his company paid for. For more than two years he wasted my time, because he was too embarrassed to work on exercises and do other activities with me. Then his bosses started remarking on his bad English, and when he realized it was affecting his career, he started to learn. His embarrassment outside the lessons became worse than the embarrassment inside the lessons, and he started to cooperate.
If you feel your husband's English is hurting the family in some concrete way, such as financially or in the lives of your children somehow, you need to let him know that. Whatever you can do to make the embarrassment of having bad English worse than the embarrassment of learning English will help him get started. This is an ugly solution, but I have seen it work.
Also, if he's that proud and worried about his dignity, he's going to have a lot of trouble learning English well, because he'll be afraid to give up enough control to learn new language habits. This is another thing I've seen again and again, but it's for a different post. |
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Jamie (K) I'm a Communicator ;-)
Joined: 24 Feb 2006 Posts: 6552 Location: Detroit, Michigan, USA
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#5 (permalink) Wed Apr 11, 2007 6:38 am Wife of Guatemalan Spanish speaker in Michigan |
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I know that, Acutally, most people is very difficult to teach their famliy.;;
For example, I have teached my brother for two years, because he did not have "conception of all about math" So, I'm sad but I teached and teached.. also I was eager to all studying of my brother. But very very difficult. I tired and so was my brother. sometimes we had fighted//
Althogh my brother's result of University admission, I thnk that this experiences were sad. _________________ VERITAS LUXMEA !! |
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Gq5974 I'm here quite often ;-)
Joined: 18 Mar 2007 Posts: 100 Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Hello! I am Bladimir and I am pleased for being here! | Hi all, I'm a new member and I'm here to improve my English skills |