Teach English in France Welcome to the 2017-2018 list of English lecteur / lectrice and maître de langue positions at French universities! [This post is no longer being updated. Are you looking for 2018-2019 English teaching positions at French universities?] Read through this previous post about these English lecteur / lectrice positions in France for more information and the education requirements. […]
Apply to teach English in Spain through the Auxiliar de Conversación program! Application available between January 9 and April 18, 2017. The application is now open to teach English in Spain or Andorra through the Spanish Ministry of Education. Auxiliares teach for 12 hours a week from October 1, 2017, to May 31, 2018, for a […]
If you would like to teach English in Latin America so that you can improve your Spanish while getting teaching experience and living abroad, here are some official programs and options for native speakers of English: Get Paid to Teach English: If you’d like to teach English in Colombia, the English Teaching Fellowship offers placements in […]
Do you want to teach English in Europe? A few countries have official programs to bring in native English speakers to work as language assistants in the public school system. If you are currently an undergraduate student or have a BA and are under 30 years of age, then there are several programs to teach English […]
A Linguistic Analysis of Telenovela Spanish, or How this Nerdy Linguist Spent her Friday Night Ever since I discovered that Univision started including transcripts of their telenovelas online, I had been wanting to experiment with the free corpus linguistics software AntConc to analyze the most common phrases used in telenovela Spanish. I chose Pasión y Poder because it […]
I’ve recently been binge-watching the Telemundo telenovela ¿Quién es Quién? to learn more Mexican slang. Comedic telenovelas often use tons of informal expressions and slang words compared to the more dramatic ones, but the characters also talk really fast so you’ll most likely need access to the subtitles and the internet to look up words in […]
Did you know that California State University at Long Beach offers French for Spanish speakers courses? They also offer similar courses in Italian for Spanish speakers that emphasize the similarities between these Romance languages. I haven’t heard of other universities (yet) that offer courses like this, though the University of Texas at Austin’s Portuguese courses usually […]
Telenovela Transcripts Now Available at Univision.com Univision usually includes Spanish subtitles for their telenovelas online, but I’ve recently noticed that they now also include the ENTIRE TRANSCRIPT of each episode below the video. This is great for copying and pasting into other programs (think of the corpus linguistics applications!), but it also means that you can […]