Private English Lessons by Experienced Professional Teacher in Poland (Warsaw)

Sounds just a little too big for her britches somehow.

I think I need prof teachers help, I was born and bred in England, and she blows me out of the water when it comes to written English.

Come to think of it now that I am in Poland, It's probably better to spend my money on some polish lessons, or maybe both would be a good idea.

Ditto. It'd be an excellent idea:-)

I am really confused why looking for additional work is somehow perceived as a negative, except some people don't have anything to add and just enjoy putting down other people.

I will check out nativespeaker.pl and maybe that will be more fruitful. If anyone knows someone or some company that's looking for English instruction, please keep me in mind. Thanks.

As I told you before PT, you are a threat to these half steps.
In return you are met with insults from them as they have very low self esteem.
Gosh you would take bread off their tables in no time.
Put it this way, if I was spending my hard earned money for language lessons would I hire a caring professional that knows
how to build a persons ability or hire someone that insults with demeanor to make themselves seem superior to boost their own ego.
I don't pay instructors/people money to insult and bully me.
I wouldn't think of hiring any of these know it all to be abused by.
I would hire you however because you are most professional.

Quite, Tori!

And it's chiefly black-market type immigrants to both the UK as as well as the US who lowball, i.e. low bid/under bid, the British/US employer with a cheaper (not necessarily BETTER!!) product:-) Just remember, good "enough" costs less, "the best" ALWAYS costs the limit!! An American language school or college would jump at the chance to hire Professional Teacher rather than an equally educated native-born US English speaker because a Pole or a Russian will usually take less.

I see this everyday where I teach:-)

Yes, it all boils down to the bottom line. Cost. Basically a school can pay a non-native less. The downside for the school is that they can't charge as much for lessons with them and in fact a lot of corporate clients insist on natives. The better ones insist on native speaker trainers with a certain level of qualification and experience.

Not someone from the former Soviet Union, coming to Poland to teach English.

No worry for me, PT, whom I have wished the best and advized to concentrate on Russian language and on Russian clientèle, won't take work away from me....

An American-born English teacher in, say, Russia or Poland, is completely different from a Russian or Polish-born/trained teacher English abroad:-)

You guys are just full of repetitive, self-serving gooblygook. Hope you're having fun entertaining and reassuring yourselves.

"Gobbledygook" because it makes sense, perhaps?

Sorry you feel so threatened:-)

Yes. I sense insecurity and an inferiority complex there. Why else would someone start such a thread?

Precisely, jon:-) Well, I guess we now all know the answer!

OMG! I have so many things to say here. Why do all native-English speakers think that only they should and can teach English properly? If a person is a native-speaker of any language, it doesn't mean he/she is a good teacher. If ProfTeacher likes teaching and her major is English, she likes teaching and etc., does it mean she shouldn't do it just because she wasn't born in the right place? Not everybody has enough money to hire a native-English speaker and non-native speakers ask less money.n And there are a lot of people from other countries who speak English great and whose accents are ok. I was taught both - by native and non-native speakers. Yes, I know I do have mistakes, I am still not perfect, but I still learn it. My accent and conversational English became better after I had been taught by native speakers, but my grammar and vocabulary became better after classes with non-native English speakers.

Just maybe, it's because the educated natives among us honestly DO know the ins-and-outs of our language more naturally and aesthetically correctly than a foreigner, that's why! Allright, Joseph Conrad wrote such stylistically perfect English that even I was fooled reading "Lord Jim" in high school. And yet he could never have taught it, as based on reports at that time, his Engish accent was sooooo Polish in both intonation, rhythm, even word choice, that he was all but barely comprehensible:-)

My point is that an intelligent foreign-born English teacher, for instance, always defers to the native born-English teacher, in terms of professional ethics etc.

what does 'ethics' have to do with it. You lost me.

Being an honestly competent professional, rozumienic:-) What's hard to understand about that??