Howsoever she quondam entered our classroom , the room where her and our lessons took place , talking or , more exactly , prating and blabbering German words…
by Giovanni Albanese
When I attended an English course at the British Institute , about seventeen years ago , I had a mother – tongue English teacher, who studied English and German at University in Palermo, albeit , as it often chances , stress was placed upon the first language – which in her case was English , whilst the second , in her case German, was rather or – to bestow a better expressure upon it – comparatively neglected .
Howsoever she quondam entered our classroom , the room where her and our lessons took place , talking or , more exactly , prating and blabbering German words.
Her pupils , one of whom was I and amongst whom only I , because I had been several times in Germany , and another , who happened to be born in a German family , understood German , remWhen I attended an English course at the British Institute , about seventeen years ago , I had a mother – tongue English teacher, who studied English and German at University in Palermo, albeit , as it often chances , stress was placed upon the first language – which in her case was English , whilst the second , in her case German, was rather or – to bestow a better expressure upon it – comparatively neglected .
Howsoever she quondam entered our classroom , the room where her and our lessons took place , talking or , more exactly , prating and blabbering German words.
Her pupils , one of whom was I and amongst whom only I , because I had been several times in Germany , and another , who happened to be born in a German family , understood German , remained astounded and flabbergasted .
Answering her German questions , we made efforts , in order not to let that strange language be felt as a nuisance by the rest of the class .
She told that she had commenced to study hard german , because she had to make ere long German exams at University .She added that, far from being dumbfounded , we had to admire her skills .
She asseverated that it was her who ruled in that class , since she was the teacher. In a class where a teutonic language was taught another teutonic tongue had not to be looked upon as being out of place , nay it had to be practised hilariously and mirthfully .
Nevertheless – and I think those who did not understand German felt relieved –
she soon grew weary of German , beginning again to talk English .
Thenceforward she, never more talking German , yea not any other tongue but English , gave us the opportunity to make a useful and profitable English course .
Giovanni Albanese E- mail :giovannilbns@gmail.com .ained astounded and flabbergasted .
Answering her German questions , we made efforts , in order not to let that strange language be felt as a nuisance by the rest of the class .
She told that she had commenced to study hard german , because she had to make ere long German exams at University .She added that, far from being dumbfounded , we had to admire her skills .
She asseverated that it was her who ruled in that class , since she was the teacher. In a class where a teutonic language was taught another teutonic tongue had not to be looked upon as being out of place , nay it had to be practised hilariously and mirthfully .
Nevertheless – and I think those who did not understand German felt relieved –
she soon grew weary of German , beginning again to talk English .
Thenceforward she, never more talking German , yea not any other tongue but English , gave us the opportunity to make a useful and profitable English course .
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