Teachers of English, Swedish, Finnish, French & German

[communicaid]

Leading culture and communication skills consultancy is looking for free-lance trainers to teach at European Institutions in Helsinki. Interesting work opportunities.

Requirements:
• Native speaker
• University degree
• Minimum 3 years full time training experience with adults (minimum of 15 h/wk)

For any queries, please contact: cg@communicaid.com (Carola Goldenberg).

[Rosamunda]

Are you looking for freelancers or will you be hiring salaried teachers?

[communicaid]

Dear Penelope,

We are looking for free-lance trainers. Successful candidates will train EU members of staff on our behalf.

If you are interested or know someone else who might be, please send us your C.V or contact details of the third person as soon as possible.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Best wishes

[Rosamunda]

Actually I think I sent you my CV 2 or 3 years ago when you were negotiating with a bank. But I never heard from you after that.

Personally I am fully booked until the end of November, but might be interested in 2011. If I bump into any colleagues on the beach, I'll tell them to contact you All the private language schools shut down for most of July so you might not get a ton of CVs until we all start crawling back at the beginning of August.

[curlies7]

Hello!

Have sent my C.V, so I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Regards,

tomas

[communicaid]

Please Note, the tender now requires Swedish instead of Dutch teachers.

[Rosamunda]

Swedish-Swedish or Finnish-Swedish?

And is that teaching Swedish to Finns or to students of other nationalities?
I have a friend who might be interested in teaching Swedish but she is a native Finn. Her spoken English is very good but not fluent.

[Pursuivant]

WTF is the use of teaching Finnish-Swedish dialect to some brahmins leaving the country in a couple of years? What is the use of teaching yodling Stockhomare to people who are going to be living here and trying to interact with the local brahmins?

TEACH THE BLOODY FRENCH TO SPEAK PROPER ENGLISH

[Rosamunda]

Actually the French speak MUCH better English nowadays than they used to. A rash generalisation I know but, a lot of students in France take a gap year to improve their English or they use Erasmus or they go and work in London for a few years after they graduate (after all, it's a relatively short commute)... As EFL students I generally find them to be more demanding and focused in their learning than many Finnish students (who just want to chat). The French have far better writing skills than Finns (even Finns who have studied in English) and are more capable of putting together a coherent academic text than Finnish students. Maybe their listening skills are not so good though

[Lisa 15]

if the target is the European Chemicals Agency's staff, these are people who are already fluent in at least 2 languages and need to learn a third one, which is why they are looking for teachers for the languages indicated.

[communicaid]

Lisa 15 is spot on, and to clear up on whos teaching who, its swedish in finland, along with all the other languages.