SPANISH TEACHER IN BOGOTA

turnmeon (☼Travelguide writer) says on Feb 23, 2009, 06:11:

turnmeon (☼Travelguide writer) says on Feb 23, 2009, 06:22:

Marta Maria says on Feb 23, 2009, 07:03:

Petervandijck! How many names and accounts do you have in poorbuthappy???? "turnmeon", "johnny2008", "huskie"..............All those are you! And you make loooong conversations with your multiple personalities to offend people! Get a job and get a girlfriend! Get a life!
I´m just trying to work and it´s true: I´m CREATIVE, FUN AND EFFECTIVE. You can just ask the students that contacted me before thatnks to poorbuthappy. And if you know so much about our language, you should read a little about what Gabriel Garcia Marquez says about spelling rules in spanish, that could help you because you´re alittle bit old fashioned ;)
LOVE.
Marta Maria.
(oops, my name doesn´t have the stress mark on María, I just don´t know how to write my name in spanish)

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Shortiao says on Feb 23, 2009, 07:12:

everyone here is peter?

i'm not. Can we have a show of hands for everyone that is not Peter?

"cuando una persona toma otro pasaporte....pierde su identidad!" - Shortiao

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Marta Maria says on Feb 23, 2009, 07:25:

Wow! You also call yourself "shortiao". How many names do you have in poorbuthappy, and how much time do you have???? But I really don´t want your hatred get me hooked in this. So bye!!!!! You win!

Some of my recent students:
Rob de Boer rob_deboerrozen at hotmail.com
Jessie TooClassy at aol.com
John Matzko jmatzko at earthlink.net
Jorgen Andersen ja at relationwise.dk

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webmanco says on Feb 23, 2009, 07:32:

Martha apoyo la libre empresa, sin embargo puedes la próxima vez promocionar tus servicios en la zona apropiada.

Renting, selling, meetups

No hay extremo cierto o verdadero, porque los extremos opacan, enruedan, (lavan cerebros) verdades. Yotas

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webmanco says on Feb 23, 2009, 07:42:

I will give you a call when in need, however I don´t make a living out grammar. I am sure even a farmer could teach some spanish to a begining non spanish native foreigner.

Don´t need to jump on anyone offering his/her services.

No hay extremo cierto o verdadero, porque los extremos opacan, enruedan, (lavan cerebros) verdades. Yotas

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webmanco says on Feb 23, 2009, 08:23:

I do not take offense, but you should neither take offense just because we (in Colombia) do speak the best Spansh in the world.

Take that chip off your shoulder.

island girl says on Oct 2, 2008, 20:07: flag

YES. Colombians, especially those from Bogota, speak THE BEST Spanish or Castellano or whatever.

Especially for a non native speaker, it is beautiful and clear and UNDERSTANDABLE.

Enough love to mi gente Colombiana!!

http://poorbuthappy.com/colombia/post/do-we-speak-the-best-spanish-in-...

No hay extremo cierto o verdadero, porque los extremos opacan, enruedan, (lavan cerebros) verdades. Yotas

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ColombianoGringo (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Feb 23, 2009, 08:29:

ColombianoGringo (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Feb 23, 2009, 08:31:

Marta Maria says on Feb 23, 2009, 14:09:

Webmanco and ColombianoGringo, you are right. My intention was to post in every posible zone where people could be interested in my ad, but I didn´t know I was going to spam poorbuthappy. I´M SO SORRY............and embarrassed.
Well, I´m not a farmer or a football player or a carpenter teaching spanish, but you´re not so far, I´m a musician of the Pontificia Universidad Javerina. I´ve researched and studied a lot! to teach my native language, I already have a lot of experience and my students are not only beginers.
I know the rules because for god´s sake! THAT´S THE EASIEST PART! Very often I omit stress marks or exclamation points at the begining, because in most of the cases they don´t make any difference in the meaning of a sentence. Actually the Colombian Nobel Price awarded Gabriel GarcÍa Marquez proposes that those "fancy" spelling rulles, those that sound the same and don´t make any difference in the meaning, should be flexible, used however we wanted, in order to make the language easier to use, more friendly and specially to allow the writer focus on the meaning more than on the form. He thinks the richness of the language is more in the meaning than in the form and that spelling is made to serve us, not us to serve it.
I focus my teaching on the communicative skills of my students I give listening and speaking precedence over grammar rules or spelling rulles. It´s very easy for teachers to forget that what the student needs is to learn to express him/herself efficiently and correctly. So I don´t waste my student´s time emphazising in the rules of the stress marks if not even spanish speaking people are really strict about it (not even Gabriel García Marquez and the best journalists!) I encourage my students to use them in the cases when is absolutely necesary becuse of meaning. For example verb tenses or to difference realtive pronouns from interrogative pronouns. I teach all the stress rules when students are very very advanced or when they´re specially interested in the subject. But whatever I say what can really speak for me is my students. I posted before a list of some of them.
And those who wrote those rude comments about learning spanish in bed and so on, well I recomend some therapy maybe, why are you so full of hatred? Did you offend me? YES. Did that change the fact that we speak very good and clear spanish in Colombia? NO.
And bla bla bla bla bla I have lots of things to do. So good night and good luck.
Marta Maria.

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ColombianoGringo (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Feb 23, 2009, 14:17:

turnmeon (☼Travelguide writer) says on Feb 23, 2009, 20:47: