Opiniões, mensagens e recados em 1996 e 1997.

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emb@sk.com.br

Hello:
I'm an American who is able to read Portuguese, and I have been reading the responses that you've made to the various questions that you've received about English usage. I agree with 99% of those responses, but I have to say that I don't agree with your response regarding the usage of the word ain't. I am a typical, university-educated American and I know no one who has graduated from university that uses that word in their everyday speech. On rare occasions we might quote a well-known line from an old song, it ain't necessarily so, but otherwise the use of the word is widely considered to be sub-standard and so unacceptable.
In other words, while poorly educated rural people and people from poorer urban districts (of any color) will use ain't, for all intents and purposes those with university educations will use isn't instead. Rock music lyricists use ain't because they think that it makes their songs seem more honest and authentic, but probably they would not use the word at a restaurant or in a store or elsewhere in their daily life.
Sincerely,
Dale Bricker

Dear teacher,
Today I installed Internet in my office computer. Looking for the Internet contents I found your school. I can tell you that I really got impressed. All your home school information is excellent. I'm very happy with your school progress. As you know, I'm one of your older students from Santa Cruz and I know what I know about English basically for having studyied at your school. Thanks for your great help on my personal and professional life. I can strongly recommend your school to any person that wish to learn English.
Merry Christmas.
Fladimir de Oliveira - Salta - Argentina.

Está perfeita a home page de vocês. Poucas vezes consegui ver uma página tão objetiva e, ao mesmo tempo, mantendo informações que não se tem tão facilmente assim, tanto no mundo virtual como no mundo concreto.
Um grande abraço,
Romero Brito

Gostaria de parabenizá-lo pela sua excelente home page. Que contraste entre a sua página frente a outras tão claudicantes quanto inexpressivas! Parabéns pela qualidade dos textos e diversidade dos links!
Lanier Morais

Gostaria de parabenizá-los pela excelente página. Ela é ótima tanto em assuntos como também em conteúdo. Concordo plenamente com S&K com relação ao fato de achar que a melhor maneira de se aprender inglês, é convivendo com pessoas que tenham o inglês como língua materna. É o que irei fazer! :)
Fernando Bezerra

I was pleased to receive such a detailed response from you, but even more so to see what a pleasant home and family you have, and professional school you run. I was particularly pleased to read about the emphasis you place (for both teacher and student) on the idea of cultural exchange.
From my classroom training at International House, and my experiences of teaching one-to-one, I have realised that establishing a positive atmosphere of cultural exchange with students is of vital importance because it not only enhances the level of the students’ interest, but it also means that the teacher can learn too, and break down the traditional (and often very boring) scene of a dictating teacher at the front of a disinterested classroom.
During the classroom teaching I did at International House, we were encouraged to teach in a similar way to that which you described in your letter. This means that my teaching method is very student and communication based. I aim to create an environment in which the students want to learn and are ultimately therefore able to teach themselves (with a little guidance, of course!). For my part this means that I must try to be as innovative and flexible as possible, thinking of topics that will interest the students, and games which will be fun but simultaneously linguistically useful. In order to do this I have learned not only that thorough lesson planning is a must, but also the advantages of always teaching language in context.
Sophie

I was looking for false cognates on the Web and I found your site. I really like it. I think this is the first time I see all of them together and well explained; the idioms and phrasal verbs are fantastic too.
Keep on working like that.
-- Helena Maria Frias

I was very excited by what I read on your web site about your teaching method. It sounds like exactly the kind of program I would love to do and I think I would do it very well.

Parabenizo você pela excelente página que mantém!!!! Realmente a melhor página sobre este tema que já encontrei na WEB..... Guilherme Ruschel

Gostaria de deixar meus cumprimentos pela excelente página da S&K! Aguardo novidades na seção de "Word Histories". Parabéns!

Dear Mr. Schütz,
Many, many thanks for your speedy reply to my email and for the wonderfully long and detailed description of your school and the programs you offer. I certainly gained a strong and positive impression of your school, the programs you offer, your town, family, and your philosophy of teaching. It sounds like a place where both students and teachers can thrive!

Ricardo,
Apenas dando uma olhada por cima na sua página, o que tenho a dizer é que merece nota 1000. Muito interessante. Li uma mensagem que deixaram para você e esta pessoa falou certíssimo, você se preocupou em ensinar, difundir o inglês, principalmente, entre outros idiomas, outras empresas se preocupam apenas em fazer propaganda, e muita.
PARABÉNS. Frederico Pflug

Dear Ricardo,
You can't imagine how good it is to have a message from you. I've started taking the advantage of this new way of learning and really hope it will never finish. It's also great "talking" to people who I've never met personally before and offer such an important help. It's quite different and enjoyable. Thanks again for your help.
Vera.

Dear Friends,
Congratulations for your great ESL site, it's cool! I'd like to keep in touch with other students who want to change ideas while improving English at the same time. My name is Alexandro Gurgel, I'm 34, married without children, I work as an English teacher in Natal RN. Send me an e-mail that I'll answer as soon as possible.
Alexandro - pratical*summer.com.br

Dear Sirs: Your web site is an outstanding example of internet usefulness. Your English-Portuguese contrasting materials are original and your approach to the teaching of languages makes a lot of sense. Keep up with the fine job. Sincerely,
Peter Dickason - California, USA

Dear Schütz & Kanomata,
I was very impressed by what I read on your web page. Your school's major emphasis is on communication, teaching students in a way that coincides with natural language acquisition, in an environment that varies according to their needs. This is precisely how we learned to teach at UCLA. In fact, almost our entire curriculum was based on the natural approach and its emphasis on communication in a friendly environment. The primary use of language is for communication, and communicating is the way people naturally learn a language. They do not learn by following a preestablished course of lessons based on rote memorization and grammar contents. At UCLA we learn how to create the best environment in which to teach all kinds of students. As you will see in my resume, I was able to put what I've learned into practice and teach Brazilian students studying here in the USA.
Joseph Guziel - Northridge, CA - USA

Caro pessoal do S.K,
Parabéns pela excelente homepage, é a melhor que já visitei em 1 ano e meio de Internet.
Sandro Fenelon - Belo Horizonte-MG

Your home page is really very cool! It helps us to learn something. Congratulations!!!

Dear friends and fellow ESL professionals:
It was with great pleasure that I discovered your highly interesting homepage detailing your school in Santa Cruz. In fact, of all the homepages I've perused depicting ESL businesses, yours is the most informative I've seen.
I am a native Californian (San Diego), doing business as a gemologist in Governador Valadares, Minas for 13 yrs. My Valadarense wife and & I moved here permanently about 3 yrs. ago (just before the Plano Real). Last year I started a private ESL tutoring service, catering primarily to medical professionals (who all want to learn English but loathe sitting in classrooms with smartass adolescents). My ESL background stems from 6 yrs. teaching 8-9 hours/day at Meyer Language Institute in Bogota & Cali Colombia, many years ago. I love teaching and communicating. I gather my linguistic educational background is not as "universitized" as yours, but my life experience, in learning to love the Hispanic and Portuguese cultures, definitely helps me in my teaching. I currently am using a 4-prong system including phonetics, American Streamline (grammar & conversation), a listening course with tapes, and the New Oxford Picture Dictionary. Some of my students just want to talk, so I pick up items relating to their professions on the Internet. Your description of your basic method, using the students' experiences, interests, etc., intrigues me. Can you share more?
Love to meet you, ciao for now...
P. Damian Quinn/Talisman Trading Company/Advantage English

Parabéns pela excelente homepage, já que vocês preocuparam-se em nos ensinar algo pela Internet, ao contrário de todas as outras que só se interessam em fazer sua propaganda.
Parabéns e continuem assim.
Sandro - BH

I was really happy to see that we "gauchos" are ahead!!! Congratulations! Your homepage is really cool!!
Lusieni Diel - Porto Alegre

Oi,
This is the first time that I have visited your home page. It is very informative. Please say hello to Takako, Sara, Amber, and Elsa for me.
Tchau,
Kelly Barfield - Georgia - U.S.
P.S. thanks once again for letting me stay in your home

É bom ver que o Brasil nunca deixa de ficar lá em frente na matéria de inovações ! Parabéns !
Eu era professor de inglês em Salvador da Bahia e estou com saudades de ensinar lá, mais pelo menos, dá pra ficar em contacto através de organisações como vocês. Obrigado e tchau.
Steve Adams, antigamente do FOREVER (LAURELS), Salvador (Agora em Cingapura)
(Desculpe o português terrível !)

Parabéns pela bela home page. Um trabalho sério que demonstra a competência de vocês. Pena que não estão no Rio. Um abraço.
Cyro Jannotti. Niterói-RJ.

Adorei a idéia de fazer uma "Homepage interativa" onde se possa discutir assuntos ligados a idiomas. Parabéns a toda galera do Schütz & Kanomata e especialmente ao meu amigo Ricardo Schütz.

Wow! A home page! And what a home page! Mas está precisando de algumas fotos de Toby e Simon!
See you on Friday!
Any last minute requests?
Um abraço,
Jason, University of Florida, U.S.

Agradeço seu mail e aproveito para dizer que achei bem legal sua idéia. Já visitei a home page e gostei do Guia de páginas de Santa Cruz. É preciso que alguém comece a organizar esse novo mercado.
Não sei se tu sabes, eu escrevo aos sábados, no Rio Vale, a cada 15 dias. Tenho uma página no Caderno 2. Nesse espaço escrevo uma crônica de assuntos variados e outro texto sobre internet, home pages e mails. Já publiquei duas ou três vezes. Minha idéia é unir os santa-cruzenses cibernéticos e levar a região para dentro da rede, além de falar de home pages que visitei e gostei, dando dicas. Tenho vontade de tornar esse espaço mais alternativo, publicando mails de pessoas que escrevem p/ mim. Quero fazer uma página interativa. Mas por enquanto acho que não tenho muito público para isso.
Espero que a gente converse mais. Vamos discutir essas idéias. Espero sugestões.
Um abraço.
Leandro Fontoura - Jornalismo Unisc Santa Cruz do Sul / RS <m9410030*ccoms.unisc.br>

Ontem à noite visitamos tua home page na Viavale. O conteúdo, realmente, é muito bom, várias vezes superior ao das outras home pages de cursos inglês. É uma home page interessante, de carregamento rápido, fácil para o usuário manipular. As dicas quanto à gramática do inglês e a boa propaganda que tu fazes do teu curso são os pontos altos da home page. Com o tempo, um aperfeiçoamento (fundos coloridos, imagens animadas em Java, mais gráficos) na programação visual da página tornaria ela ainda melhor. Mas, de qualquer forma, é um começo excelente. OBS.: As animações em Java são encontradas em <www.gamelan.com> (o maior repositório de applets Java da Internet). Os fundos são mais fáceis de serem encontrados (podem ser baixadas direto de outras home pages). Me parece que existe um repositório de backgrounds no servidor de informática da UFRGS <www.tucano.inf.ufrgs.br>. Um abraço.

Joaquim <joaquim*viavale.com.br>

Hélio <helio*viavale.com.br>

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