I didn’t plan to post anything in the forum, but since everyone is doing it, I thought I’d better introduce myself. I am really into languages, having taught English, Spanish and French at different levels. I can see from the forum that I am in for a rather rich experience.

The flash cards are the bomb! I tried them for Tagalog, which I don’t know at all – or should I say, didn’t know at all? Now I know that ‘katas’ is juice, that ‘itlog’ is egg and that ‘tsa’ is ‘tea’! Fantastic.

Hello Elsbeth! Welcome to the forum!

Hellow Elsbeth. Welcome to the community. Have a great time learning more languages in eduFire and have a grand time teaching as well.

Hello Elsbeth and welcome to EduFire!

Welcome to eduFire Elsbeth! I am glad you chose to write on the forum and I look forward to seeing your posts. We also have a section in the forum to talk about your classes.

I hope you can attend the teacher orientation classes soon so you can begin teaching here. click here to register
Best wishes!

Hello Elsbeth and welcome to edufire!

tea is “tsaa” in Tagalog ♫

Hey Elsbeth! Welcome to the forums! Yes, you are right….the flashcards are great. Be careful, they can get addicting! Glad to have you part of the community! Enjoy your time here!

Hi Elsbeth,

welcome to edufire:-)

I have noticed your interesting profile because of this sentence:

“Ever wondered why you say ‘If I were you’ instead of ‘If I was you’? I wondered that for many years as well until I did French and Spanish and learnt about a wonderful little thing called the subjunctive. There are many other things that became clear to me in English when I did Spanish and French.”

This is very true for all latin languages. For example, Italian being the modern latin uses the “subjunctif/congiuntivo” much more than all other languages.

Generally speaking, learning latin (which is still a compulsive subject in Italian secondary school caled “liceo”) as well as any other modern latin language will give native English speakers a better grasp of their grammar.

All the best for your teaching here and I look forward to meeting you in class:-)

Katia