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Marta Maria comments on SPANISH TEACHER IN BOGOTA

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.

Marta Maria comments on SPANISH TEACHER IN BOGOTA

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

Marta Maria comments on SPANISH TEACHER IN BOGOTA

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)