Originally posted here by Evil Moo
What I was referring to in my regards to disappointment was that these people are living in an upper class setting (and thus can be expected to be more substantially educated which reasonably leads to a degree of higher vocabulary with less 'slang' usage) yet fail at the basics of their own tongue. Now, don't interpret this as me stating that education or wealth equates intelligence, or disregard the possibility of learning deficiencies, but I still find the idea of someone foreign to a language teaching a native (particularly in such an opportunity laden environment) to that subject troubling. To put my point-of-view in context of a simple analogy, I (a man) might as well teach a female about what it means to be feminine and live as a woman. While possible to a degree, is inherently contradicted and troubling as to why that person would need the aid to begin with. That’s all I was saying.
Hey Hey,

How could it not be interpretted that way.... you basically just said that being upper class means you have a better education... That lets me now understand a great deal more about the comments that you post...

I'm still not sure why you find it troubling, it makes perfect sense to me... The best possible education is all that matters. Who here has gone to college or university and not, at one point or another, had a foreign professor... I'd bet that no one has. I, as I'm sure many of the members of this board who are ESL themselves, find that very insulting as they tend to have a better grasp of the language than most of us.

As for your comparison... You attack me for being an idiot, yet that analogy is awful.. There's a big difference between learning the points of a language and learning to be a female. Language is factual, set in stone and has a history to back it up. Women are individuals and unique. They think, they show emotions and they react based on life experience. Much of what we learn as people we learn by watching others, but that's the basics... we learn from instincts and experience.. Nothing in your comparison is similar.

Peace,
HT