Teaching Spanish Lessons

One month ago my host mother came to me with a new potential job - that´d be like four in total, but those are for another day... This time around was about teaching spanish lessons to a boy who is Sami´s friend´s older brother (I think, it´s a bit confusing), so the mums knew each other for quite some time.

I was really excited since teaching is one of the things I like the most - if the boy/girl (just once a time, thanks!) is really motivated to learn, that´s it. Let me tell you, my mum wanted me to become a teacher, but I had had some really bad experiences about teacher-students relationships while being a student myself, so my answer to my mum was a big "no way!"

Anyway, two weeks ago I set up a "appointment" with the parents so they could meet me and check if I could help the boy with grammar, vocabulary and speaking.

After two lessons (tomorrow being my third one), I have to be honest and confess I really don´t know if I´m helping the boy. I mean, I have explained things like the difference between Ser and Estar (our two spanish verbs for the english To Be) the best way I could, but most of the time I feel like we jump from one random thing (like the correct pronunciation of ce, ci), to other (all spanish words can be classified into three groups, agudas, llanas and esdrújulas, etc).

Seriously, I didn´t know that learning spanish from an english point of view could be that difficult! The fact that apparently children don´t study english grammar at school don´t make studying another language any easier. I find myself teaching him english future the way I was taugh, and then comparing it to spanish future...

OK, it seems I´m complaining a lot, but in the end I´m enjoining teaching spanish so much that an hour and a half pass really really quick - I start saying Hola! and next thing I know it´s that it´s time to leave.

The boy is really nice and I think he´s enjoying the classes as well. He´s just started stuyding spanish a year ago so most of my explanations are in english - and that´s means that I have like an one-to one english class myself every week. Not bad, eh?

And of course the pocket money is not that bad either!