Hello all

[The Brain]

I had a $9mm judgment against the fraudfeasor

Is that like Judge Colt and his jury of six?

[Rasputin]

@brain.    Nope, just money.

[viper37]

but they pulled me back in to teach 

Was it kinda like that?
https://youtu.be/UneS2Uwc6xw?t=57

[viper37]

It's been a while and I'm just checking in. I hope everyone is doing well.

Welcome back!

[jimmy olsen]

Hi!

I'm teaching at a University now and have a two year old girl.

Congrats on both. What do you teach?

This is my second semester.

So far, I've taught 'English Conversation', 'Basic English Conversation', 'Practical English Conversation, 'Basic English Composition', 'Internet English', and 'TOEIC English'

TOEIC is a big professional English exam that corporations and government agencies in Korea and Japan use to evaluate employee English.

[Sheilbh]

Is Internet English mainly going through the various memes?

[jimmy olsen]

Is Internet English mainly going through the various memes?

We will have a class on memes, but that's not all.

Part of it is learning English that is useful in using the web. The biggest part of it is learning how to best use the internet to study English independently. Part of it is learning about English speaking web culture and American and British culture more generally.

Normally, this would be taught in a computer lab for 3 hours. But with COVID, I'm posting 75  minute video lessons and having them go to the websites I cover, give me some screenshots of them doing X and write a short review.

Week 1 was the class introduction, which we did by Zoom.
Week 2 we went over Duolingo and Memrise.
Week 3 we went over Reddit.
Week 4 we over BBC.com, BBC News and BBC Learning English
Week 5  I've made a video for Youtube, but haven't posted it yet. In it I go over a plethora of channels that focus on learning English.

Future classes will focus on E-commerce (i.e. Amazon), Wikipedia, Podcasts, News Media, Social Media, Memes, etc.

[Tamas]

Back at my job in Hungary I think a big advantage I had over most colleagues when speaking English is that mine didn't sound straight outa' a language course. Thanks to all my time watching movies in English and hanging out on forums I had at least some grasp on current everyday expressions