frank lee bent wrote:i bet you could get some good paying freelance gigs right off facebook.

a lot of ppl need one off translations.

i fancy there is more work than a single person can handle if well marketed.

Yes i think so. However it is really competitive to try to get a job from someone through facebook. You have mentioned my name once on a post in Local and Expats living in phnom penh about someone looking for a translator. I pmed her and she didn't reply. lolzzz. Actually, some of my friends are tutoring after their main job. They teach khmer to barang. i am doing it too recently, but i don't charge as i am teaching my friend. Moreover, i am not only teaching him, but he is also teaching me back. We are doing swapping lessons. Lolzzz

Even if you don't make money, teaching and learning with your friend will be good for you both.
I don't have any contacts for you, but good luck and don't sell yourself short. (Expression which means that you are probably worth more than you think.)

could start with restaurant menus..... government websites, companies

StroppyChops wrote:In fact, if we're not getting criticized, we're probably not doing it right. Or we're doing nothing at all.

You're still probably doing nothing at all.

The quote I posted back on page 1 are the words of Paulo Friere, considered by many THE leading educational theorist of the 21st Century. A Christian, an educator and a Marxist.
Basically he says that if your education is anything like that being "taught" at ACE etc. - 'The Banking Mode of Education' it's as good as useless as it doesn't help to liberate the oppressed. (His most famous work is the Pedagogy of the Oppressed - in 22 words : 'there's no point teaching the illiterate to read as the only things for them to read are the words of the oppressors')
Check out this simplified summary here
http://www.talbot.edu/ce20/educators/ca ... lo_freire/ scroll all the way down to 'Contributions to Christian Education'
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Rama wrote: (His most famous work is the Pedagogy of the Oppressed - in 22 words : 'there's no point teaching the illiterate to read as the only things for them to read are the words of the oppressors.)

As far as logic goes...what utter, pompous nonsense. Possibly the dumbest quote I have ever read. Saying it's useless to teach an illiterate person to read is the height of arrogance....as if someone who can't read can't think for themselves either, and then go on to write their own truths for others to read which may be contrary to the "words of the oppressors".

Soi Dog wrote:

Rama wrote: (His most famous work is the Pedagogy of the Oppressed - in 22 words : 'there's no point teaching the illiterate to read as the only things for them to read are the words of the oppressors.)

As far as logic goes...what utter, pompous nonsense. Possibly the dumbest quote I have ever read. Saying it's useless to teach an illiterate person to read is the height of arrogance....as if someone who can't read can't think for themselves either, and then go on to write their own truths for others to read which may be contrary to the "words of the oppressors".

He worked primarily in adult literacy campaigns.

http://www.edc.org/newsroom/articles/what_literacy

"What is Literacy?

The power of literacy lies not only in the ability to read and write, but rather in an individual’s capacity to put those skills to work in shaping the course of his or her own life. With the insight that genuine literacy involves “reading the word and the world,” renowned educator Paulo Freire helped open the door to a broader understanding of the term, one that moves from a strict decoding and reproducing of language into issues of economics, health, and sustainable development. Freire’s view of literacy is at once practical and all-encompassing. Whether it is the words of a language, the symbols in a mathematical system, or images posted to the Internet—literacy can transform lives."

https://www.google.com.kh/url?sa=t&sour ... QijUxru5uQ
"Paulo Freire is synonymous with the concept of critical literacy. Critical literacy is to be distinguished from functional or cultural literacy, the former referring to the technical process of acquiring basic reading skills necessary to follow instructions, read signs, fill in forms
etc. and the latter referring to the means of gaining access to a 'standard' cultural and linguistic baggage very much on the lines
advocated, in the U.S., by the likes of Hirsch and Bloom (McLaren, 1994).

Critical literacy, on the other hand, refers to an emancipatory process in which one not only reads the 'word'
but also the 'world' (Freire and Macedo, 1987),
a process whereby a person becomes empowered to be able to unveil and decode 'the
ideological dimensions of texts, institutions, social practices and cultural forms such as television and film, in order to reveal their selective interests' (McLaren, 1994). In the
words of Lankshear and McLaren, this process
is carried out in a context wherein the educators are striving to foster what Wright Mills calls a
"sociological imagination', the means whereby
we are enabled to 'perceive more clearly the relationship between what is going on in the world and what is happening to and with ourselves' "

Soi Dog wrote:

Rama wrote: (His most famous work is the Pedagogy of the Oppressed - in 22 words : 'there's no point teaching the illiterate to read as the only things for them to read are the words of the oppressors.)

As far as logic goes...what utter, pompous nonsense. Possibly the dumbest quote I have ever read. Saying it's useless to teach an illiterate person to read is the height of arrogance....as if someone who can't read can't think for themselves either, and then go on to write their own truths for others to read which may be contrary to the "words of the oppressors".

I (and Paulo) would agree...to an extent.
He (and I) would just say that they are being taught to read, think and write like the oppressors and anything they would therefore (normally) go on to write would reflect the 'banking education' they had received...They might be able to take one small step up the ladder of social mobility, but they won't be helping their fellow poor...he's a Marxist.