I had this one teacher who could not speak English at all. She said ‚No, it’s not ‚catholic‘ it’s ‚casselic‘! She would have had me in stitches if she wouldn’t have given me such awful marks all the time.

Now I understand why German English teachers are so damn back. All those fellow student from my graduation year who started studying to become a teacher did so because they barely passed their Abitur or at least with less than average marks like a 3.2 or so. Those of my advanced English class (Leistungskurs) who started studying English all had a mark worse than 8 points in their final exams.

I personally never had a really bad English teacher. But that’s probably because at the university where almost all my teachers went it was mandatory for future teachers to spend a year in a country where the language they study is spoken.
Also I was very lucky to have had a couple of English teachers who actually gave a damn and did more than just teach out of a book.

Stephie;578639 wrote:

At my school there was an English teacher, who’s English was not bad, just very, very sächsisch. It sounded really painful in my ears. I somehow always doubted native speakers understand what she’s saying.

Oh, I think I know her. She’s got a side job making public announcements on the ICE form Hamburg to Berlin, doesn’t she? I always wondered how someone could possibly understand a word of what she says. Native speakers probably need help from spanish tourists to translate that saxon-english for them

I only had one pretty bad English teacher, in 9th and 10th grade. Not only was her class pretty boring (she even managed to spoil a „Marx Brothers“ movie by pausing it every minute or so to discuss the vocabulary, and believe me, plays on words are no fun anymore if you analyse them too much ?(), but she just didn’t have the ability to admit when she was wrong. If she didn’t know a word, then it of course couldn’t exist in the english language. I still remember vividly a 10 minute conversation where a friend of mine tried to convince her that she did not make up ’stage coach‘ but that this was a real vocable.
And of course she was the only teacher where you could actually finish a vocabulary test with a negative score! She asked for 15 words, every right one got you one point, every wrong or missing one minus 2 points – great! (Count it out – you could have 2/3 of the words right but still get 0 points) :baby: ?(

Sounds not pretty good, we’ve an English teacher who’s totally into british and I learned the American accent so he always corrects me but thanks to Hugh I’m practising now some British

@Viech 882584 wrote:

Right now I’m watching ER and since it’s kind of torture to me to watch any episode past Season 3 in German (e.g. different dubbing speakers) I’m watching it only in English…

Oh I watched the early seasons of ER in English. Lurve! I don’t know, but Carter is much funnier when he makes his stupid mistakes without a bad translation. And talking about George Clooneys sexy voice… mrow~ I had a few problems with the medical terams at the beginning but right now I think I’m able to do a pleural punction all by myself.

@Sir 882588 wrote:

Oh I watched the early seasons of ER in English. Lurve! I don’t know, but Carter is much funnier when he makes his stupid mistakes without a bad translation. And talking about George Clooneys sexy voice… mrow~ I had a few problems with the medical terams at the beginning but right now I think I’m able to do a pleural punction all by myself.

Yeah, you’re totally right!
I probably know all the medical terms better in English than in German (this sentence somehow sounds totally wrong ?( Anybody who could help?)

@dr.nasty 882597 wrote:

try swapping „better“ for „rather“

Sounds much better now! Thanks!