Wartet man auf eine Antwort auf eine Bewerbung, lese deine Emails nicht vor dem Morgenkaffee...


If you are waiting for an answer to a job application, don't check your mails before coffee...





Wisdom included in two for one deals:
Never write bilingual posts before 10.

Jasmin is here and she just told me that she visited me last time I lived in Germany. Granted, this is some years ago, but I seriously did not recall any of the activities she mentioned.

Then she mentioned food, I always remember food.

I also bragged today about how good my memory is (because I tend to remember random facts), but this visit seemed to have failed into a black hole in my brain. I suck as a friend

I have been looking at job advertisements in many different places, amongst others on a website mainly dedicated to jobs in development.
Inevitably there are a lot of advertisements for English teachers. Though it is not the job I'm looking for I found the varying requirements interesting.
The first one I saw was everything wrong with the attitudes of language schools in China.
The two requirements were:
19 years
native speaker

An actual qualification in teaching English was not needed. Nor any understanding of the English language. Here is a good way to understand my frustration:
Grab a random college student and ask him/her to prepare a lesson about the difference between present perfect and simple past.
Or uses of the conditional tense. Or any other topic which might be of interest for English learners.
Now find a non native teacher with an English teaching degree and do the same.

The next advertisement actually had more sensible requirements, but the formulation of those were... unusual:

Native English speakers or close to

You had better have a degree (BA/MA) in English or Education.

You'd better have a TESOL / TEFL / CELTA certificate of be certified as a licensed teacher.

You'd better have some teaching experience.

Lastly there was an ad, which left all options open. Native speaker is desirable, but not required, teaching qualification are desirable, but not required, Chinese language skills are...

you get the idea.

It would be interesting to write 10 applications with different combinations of those requirements and see which get an answer.

Stylesheet = Stilvorlage
RSS Feed (gibt es keine Übersetzung, wenigten keine gebräuchliche)
back up = sichern
make executable = ablauffähig machen
click the button = die Schaltfläche anklicken

Obwohl ich mich bemüht habe die Übersetzung des Blogs von Denglischen ausdrücken frei zu halten, sehe ich kein großes Problem in ihnen. Sprache verändert sich. Andere Sprachen beinflussen sie.
In Island haben letzten Monat die Sprachpuristen hyperventiliert, weil das Strassenverkehrsamt Gefahrenschilder (zb, Strasse geschlossen, Lawinengefahr) auf Englisch aufstellen wollte. Es mussten wohl einige Touriten diesen Sommer gerettet werden, da sie die Schilder nicht versanden habe. Laut der "Vereinigung zum Schutz Isländischer Sprache", Sprachschutz > Menschenschutz. Mhhhh

Ich habe letzten Monat damit verbracht diese Blog Software von Englisch ins Deutsche zu übersetzen. Dies hat mir erstaunlich viele Probleme bereited, da ich viele techniche Wörter nur auf Englisch kenne. Hier ein kleines Quiz. Wie sagt man:

Stylesheet (CSS)
RSS Feed
back up
make executable
click the button

Auflösung morgen