Hello from Oregon, US!

[LaraH]

My name is Lara, I am a technical support telephone agent in Portland, Oregon.

I am training to become an English teacher, and I hope to teach English in Vietnam. I would like to talk to people from different countries, to learn more about what kind of people choose to learn English, and how I can best teach English in other countries.

I would also like to learn Vietnamese, but that is not for this forum.

I have many interests- I like to hike, knit, do photography, write, play world of warcraft on the computer, and I have been getting my TEFL certification while working my job as a technical support agent for Adobe.

[Torsten]

Hi Lara,

Welcome to our forum. It's great to have you on board. What kind of questions do you have to answer as a technical support agent for Adobe? Do you provide support for all Adobe programs or just a particular one like Photoshop? I think more and more people learn English nowadays and at some point in the near future almost every person might learn as their second language so your decision to start teaching English was excellent for a number reasons.

Talk to you soon,
Torsten
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[LaraH]

I specifically support Acrobat, Adobe Capture, Adobe Reader, and product installations. It is very challenging, but I enjoy it quite a bit, although often I find myself having to work through communication problems. The person on the other end of the phone says one thing, but I understand another, and vice verse. I think this is very good practice for teaching english, because I have to help people who aren't very good with computers to do things which can be very difficult.

I am very glad to find a forum full of non-native speakers, and I hope to learn a lot watching and posting here!

[Hoang]

Hello Lara
Nice to meet you on this forum. I come from Vietnam but I am living and working in Switzerland. Can you speak a little Vietnamese? I'm very delighted to know that you are interested in living and teaching English in Vietnam. Have you ever been there before? I think it would be a very good choise to teach English in Vietnam because the Vietnamese are very keen on learning English. The fact that you work as a technical support agent for Adobe would faciliate your living in Asien, for your computer knowledge would be asked. For learning Vietname you need to practise it as much as possible with the Vietnamese living in the US. I hope to hear about your experiences with learning Vietnamese as a foreign language.
Best wisches
Hoang

[Souad]

Hi Lara,
My name is Souad. I m from Algeria. I am an english teacher and Iwork in the middle school.
Because Iam registrated in NEWSLETTER , I recieved 2 lessons in english and in the last e mail they introduced your name to me for the purpuse of communication.
So, it s a great pleasure to make a friendship with people diffrent from my culture.
I hope you accept me as a friend .
meet you soon in this forum.
SOUAD.

[Scarface]

Hi! Im edgardo and Im from chile how everithyng there in the states, if you need to just talk or need some information abou me or my country just let me know ok?

i don know it is forbidden to give my email adress in the forum but if anybody wants to contact me my MSN adress is

einfante@live.cl

Regards !!!

[Tom Sy]

Dear Lara,
It's nice to know you want to learn Vietnamese. I come from Vietnam which is my homeland.

Therefore, if you want to know more about Vietnamese, the following emails are best for you to ask, trungsy@hcm.vnn.vn, trungsyaus@gmail.com, or trungsy_vn@yahoo.com. All of them are my private emails.

Welcome you to Vietnam, a long and thinnest country in South East Asia.

Yourself sincerely,
Trung Si Nguyen.

[Princess]

Hello Lara,

I look forward your dream coming true in near future. I am a film student but soon will be granted my bachelor degree of arts in Beijing. And I will go to Philadelphia in August to initial my masters class in media studies. I am exciting about it, however, am worrying about how to build a new life in a foreign country. I am trying to be familiar with transportation, housing, etc. there. I quiet enjoy in my major, the media technology, internet marketing and cognitive psychology. But I have to take a high score of TOFEL, which didn't apply to me, as I opine it, in order to get my TA position on campus. Could I get some advice from you?

Princess

[Yayo]

hello! lara
well, I'm peter from Bolivia, and I'm a person who wants to learn more about this lenguage, I know my grammar it is wrong, as you can read jejeje, and that's the reason about why, I would like, of course if you can help me with my grammar, 'cause I wanna take the TOEFL, and I need to improve my english, so I'm gonna be waiting for your answer bye

[Kimnganvgs]

Hello Lara!
I'm glad to hear some imformation about you. Do you really want to be a English teacher in viet nam?
I come from Viet Nam.I joined this 4rum to learn and improve English.My English is very bad. I have no much time to pratise it. And abit lazy.
I work for the sercurities company. After working-day, i feel so tired. That's the reason i am abit lazy for going to the English center to study.
I hope to be your friend on internet and we can share togetther the best way to learn English better.

[Muin]

hello Lara,
I am Moeen from Palestine. Allow me to say a word to you. Teaching is a very respnsible and exhausting job. Ask me! 27- year -experienced teacher !! I do not want to blacken the view in front of you but it is an established fact that making people understand and learn a language will cause you a lot of worry.

[Sprasad]

Dear Lara

Welcome to the form . your interaction will helpful for me to develop English. i am from India. working in HR department in one of the reputed company in Bangalore.
regards
Shiva Prasad

[Homi_Fofl]

Hi Laura,
I'm Huong Le, from Hanoi University of Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam.
I'm now an lecturer of English, too. I'm very glad as you want to visit our country and teach here. We warmly welcome you here.
Last year, our Department received two American teachers like you from "World Mission" - an NGO. So, I think this is one of ways that can help you implement your interesting plan, and I will be a strong supporter for you whenever you are here!
Do u really want to learn Vietnamese. I'm pleased to teach you, too! Vietnamese is much easier than others (as my foreign students said).
Looking forward to your reply.
Have fun!
Tram Huong Le.

[Mallinathan]

Hi Lara,
My Name is Mallinathan. I am a Technical educator. I would like to take your help in improving my English. I speak quite a few Languages but not very well in any of them including English. I am a native of Kerala, a tiny state in Southern part of India. My mother tongue is Malayalam and my schooling was done in the same Language. I have some problems in conversing fluently in English. Hope you can help me to overcome this deficiency.

Thanking you,

With regards
Mallinathan

[Josenow]

Hello!

My name is Jose Antonio, I´m from Brazil, I´m here to learn english and to Know new friends... So I will be glad if we get together on this mission.
Hope to receive an e-mail from you...