Hello I'm Majid from Iran

[Awake2reality]

I recently joined this forum and so far all my questions have been answered rapidly and convincingly. I very much appreciate the time and energy you put in to answering the questions. There are a couple of Podcasts I have recently discovered that might be of interest to other members. Check them out:

englishmojo.com
china232.com

Majid, Iran

[Mister Micawber]

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Hello, Majid-- and welcome to English-test.net. I'm glad that you find us useful, and I hope we will see more of you around here in the future.

MM
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[Rosalisa]

Hello Majid,

I agree with your ideas about this forum. It's great as you can answers as quickly as you need. Equally important, there are a lot of good and interesting friends from every country here.

Welcome to the forum.

Thank you for the links to the Podcasts.
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[Ahmadov]

Selam, hal-e shoma khube?

Welcome to this web site!
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[Awake2reality]

Hi Ahmadov,

I'm doing great. thanks.
I wish I had joined this forum earlier. This is such a nice and useful forum. I already feel like I'm part of the family .

[Torsten]

Hi Majid,

Many thanks for signing up, it's great to have to have aboard. Where in Iran do you live and what do you do? How did you learn English?

Talk to you soon,
Torsten
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[Awake2reality]

Hi Torsten and thanks,

I live in northeastern city of Mashhad. My background is electrical engineering but as I lived in Ottawa, Canada for almost five years and I love the English language, I switched career and just teach English now. I studied the language on my own for two years before going to Canada in 1998 and got myself from starter to intermediate level. Then I gradually absorbed the language as I was immersed in an English-speaking environment.

Majid

[Anvarksadath]

Hi all,

It's giving more pleassure while people started to behave as part of one family.

Keep in touch

[Torsten]

[Awake2reality]

Sure,

There is a huge demand for English in Iran. It's partly because most Iraninans secretly love American culture, watch the illegal satellite channels and consider learning English fashionable. Also a rather large population of best educated Iranians migrate to west every year. This brain drain of the cream of Iran's younger generation has been going on for almost three decades. My own two brothers, one an MBA and the other one a pharmacist, both live and are successfully employed in Chicago and Toronto.
I teach in two different local schools. In the morning I teach in Kish language school. My students are mostly women between the ages of 20-35: university students, professionals, stay-at-home moms. In the evening I teach in Shokouh English Center. My students there are mostly high school girls. I used to teach to boys but I found that Iranian young men are just way too angry and frustrated for me to handle.

Majid

[Rosalisa]

Hello Majid,

Just for curiosity, I have an Iranian friend living in Tabriz and doing his BA of the English language. And he told me that English is a big trend there.I found my friend really cool but I'd like to know if you are refering to all of them.

[Awake2reality]

Hi Rosalisa,

No. That was a general statement. I meant Iranian youth tend to be tense and angry because of too many releigious, cultural and governmental restrictions on their lives. In no way did I mean each and everyone is like that. Your friend is probably a nice guy as you figured.

[Rosalisa]

[Awake2reality]

Hey Rosalisa,

In Iran, the educational system is devided into
one year pre-school (age 6)
five years elmentary school (ages 7-11)
three years middle school (ages 12-14)
three years high school or alternatively vocational school (ages 15-17)
one year pre-university school for high school students trying to get into college

high school is divided into four mainstreams namely, literature and culture, socio-economic, physics-mathematics, and finally experimental sciences.
There is no co-educational school. All are single sex and no matter what you study there is a heavy dose of religious and ideological courses included.

Majid

[Rosalisa]

Thanks very much, Majid, for your description. I've got to know it better. It's really new and interesting to me as well. By the way, do the universities there allow boys and girls to learn together?
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