Hugh Laurie: the British accent vs the American

If you watch this video, you might not be able to stop yourself from laughing.

Students these days tend to really care their English teacher's pronunciation. They seem to believe that English teachers should pronounce just like a native speakers of English. What do you think about this belief? How would you react to this attitude (belief)?

I disagree with this idea.

The pronunciation is important in teaching because students are following what teachers do. If teachers pronounce English with wrong accents, there are high chance that students would imitate teachers' pronunciation. When students are more familiar with wrong pronunciation, they would have hard time fixing their pronunciation to the correct one. Therefore, it is important that teachers pronounce English like a native speakers of English.

However, in some way pronunciation is not that important if teachers are using listening materials. Pronunciation problem can be solved by teaching students with listening materials. After teachers teach students correct pronunciation, there will be no problem about teachers being role model of speaking to the students. It means that if teachers already taught students correct pronunciation with listening material, then students won't  confuse and make  same mistakes as teachers.

There are more important matters in teaching English to the students like grammar.  Being able to pronounce correctly is just additional ability to become a good english teacher. Without correct pronunciation, English teachers can teach students correct English. So I don't believe that English teachers should pronounce just like a native speakers of English.

March 25th

I had the anti-hepatitis inoculation (type A) today.
A week ago, I had the anti-hepatitis inoculation (type B).

I still don't aware of the importance of inoculation. My brother had the anti-hepatitis inoculation (type B) about 2 years ago. He had to go to the hospital three times to get the shot and paid quite a lot of money for it. However he doesn't have antibody. Moreover, I even had to draw blood to have an antibodies test of hepatitis A and B. Plus, I let nurse prick with a needle. I also have to visit again to get another shot. There is too much pain to bear. I could not even move the left side of my arm which had the shot.

But, I have no power over my body. Because according to my mom, she owns my body. So I have to do whatever she says. ( and this is not my own story. My brother has the same one. )

My personality

Your Type is ENFJ

Extraverted	Intuitive	Feeling	Judging
Strength of the preferences %
1	6	38	22

ENFJ type description by D.KeirseyENFJ Identify Your Career with Jung Career Indicator�     ENFJ Famous Personalities ENFJ type description by J. Butt and M.M. Heiss

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

 You are:

• slightly expressed extravert

• slightly expressed intuitive personality

• moderately expressed feeling personality

• slightly expressed judging personality

Mostly I agree with the result.

I admit that I am not that sensitive enough to realize what is going on around me. It means that I am not that intuitive. I am the kind of person who would not even recognize boyfriend's cheat. (Or I might never have boyfriend because I won't be able to sense the boy's feeling and respond to it.)

I often express my feelings to people around me. When I am excited, I smile and shout for joy. I also have big reactions to any kind of news. I frown my face when I have pain or annoyed. If I got mad, everybody around me could tell that I am mad. I show my feelings automatically. I try not to do that but I cannot stop myself from doing it because when I get mad I lose control of my feelings. However, it doesn't necessarily mean that I get mad often. Lora who has been my friend for ten years said that she has seen me mad for once.

I believe that I have some judging personality. Judging personality means the person is punctual and has solid purpose and values. In addition, the person is systematic. I do not usually late for appointment. Rather I would be there 30 minutes before the appointment. Usually I am the one who plan and push forward with the plan. Moreover, I clean up the class room whenever I see it dirty even though I did not mess up the room.

However, I disagree with some part of the result because I am very extroverted. If you ask anyone of my friends whether I am extrovert or not, they will all say that I am the most extravert they have ever seen.


There are five different job fields I can choose; reporter, job counselor, teacher, nutritionist, and hotel manager.

To succeed I should clam down and try not to hurry. I also should give up on controlling every thing. And I should not be involve personality to every evaluation.

The teacher I want to be

Many think that teachers are only there for delivering knowledge to students. However that is not true. They not only give knowledge but also lead every student to become a whole person. In other words, teachers try to bring students to become a fine grown-up.

I want to be remembered as someone who gives advise through out students' life and is willing to help with any kind of problems to the students. It means I want to be a role model. Being a role model to students is very important because students have difficulties in defining what a good adult is. It means that students are in the process of growing into a man without direction so teachers should be there for them as a role model. Giving them someone to follow could help them to know what kind of person they should become.

I have a desire for being a teacher who can understand students. There are some tendency that students feel uncomfortable in front of teacher and assume that teacher would not understand them. This kind of thinking is common because most of teachers forget how their school life was like and repeat the same mistake they hated during their school years. For instance about 20 years ago teachers were considered as an untouchable being and this idea kept students from going close to the teacher. And now, the students who were afraid of their teachers become a teacher themselves with the same idea that teachers are unapproachable. The bad concept handed down for years. This have to be stopped right now for the sake of students and future teachers.

I know that I can't be a perfect teacher. However, I will use my utmost endeavors to be the one I dreamed in two ways. I'm not sure what kind of teacher I would be but as far as I can I will try to grow into someone who is exemplary to students and understands them.