I am Nan Beda from my native town Dee Maw Soe where I have inherited several local dialects - Burmese, Eastern and Western Karenni (Kayah), Kayaw, and Kayan, which is my mother tongue. Burmese is our official language in Myanmar. I am highly motivated in conducting community facilitation and script document translation. I have extensive experience of English translation for NGO's projects evaluation; IRC for PE and CTC program, MRCS for CBHR and TOR Kayah, ALTA for Karenni Medical Document translation. In addition, with the international media team from Finish Red Cross for the Red Nose Day Fund-raising Campaign, I conducted a social, intensive, communicative interview translation individually. Teaching English to young adult in Loikaw, Kayah State, is one of my top popular skill. I am also an active Regional Tour guide and a local Community facilitator for NCDDP (National Community Driven Development Project) in Dee Maw Soe Township. I am certified and proficient in below mentioned:
· Teaching, Instructing, and tutoring English
· Interpretation
· Script translation from English to Kayah/Burmese
· Community Facilitator
· Document and Verbal translation
2020: English Instructor at WWI (Wisdom World Institute), Loikaw, Kayah
· Teach pre-intermediate and intermediate English to Young adult
2019: English Translation for the Red Nose Day Campaign (Finish Red Cross (FRC) fund-raising)
· Translation of English to Local dialect and Local dialect to English for Finish Red Cross (FRC) media team conducted by MRCS and IFRC
· Lead of evaluation for the End project lead by Myanmar Red Cross Society (MRCS) and International Federation Red Crescent (IFRC)
2016 - 2019: Regional Tour Guide and English Instructorat Think English (TE), English Language Practice Center, Loikaw, Kayah State
· Tour for international and national tourists to the tourist destination in Kayah
· Monitor and Evaluate my English Teaching for Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced English
· Helping and Tutoring enthusiasts' academic English writing and speaking.
· Been a translator for International Monitoring and Evaluation specialist provided by IRC to collect CSOs' evaluation and local organization data; and by UNESCO [child to child program (CTC) and Parent Education (PE)] to collect Community data in Kayah and Shan State
· English script translation with ALTA, United States
Community Facilitator
2015 - 2016: Community Facilitator (CF), National Community Driven Development (NCDD), Dee Maw Soe Township, Kayah State
· Led and facilitated 2 village tracts about 16 villages for community livelihood
· Build the capacities of VDCs and VTDCs in planning, organizational and financial management
· Planning and organizing Community/ village meeting
· Providing the PRA tools
· Drawing Community Map
· Monitoring and evaluation the Community profile and project data
· Mentor and mobilize the village (VDCs) and village tract committee (VTDCs) regarding livelihoods, gender balance, and transparent governance, records
· Collect and keep the baseline and follow-up community information where the project was being implemented
· Upgrading the MIS database file into Table
· Report the Surveys, Routine monitoring, and Final evaluation
· Report the progress of workshops and activities being done in community to Team Leader
· Summarize and analyze community data including project photos and timely present it to M & E Specialist
Volunteer and Internship
2014-2015: English translator, Interpreter, and Interviewer, Omaha, Nebraska, United States.
· Accompany with Dr. Alexander Rodlach PhD SVD and Miss. Sara Sanders from Creighton University in Omaha, NE, I interviewed, translated, and created the Karenni Community profile for in several aspects that required; hospital, Church, School, and Job interview. Those Karenni community had recently migrated from Karenni refugee camp in Thailand to the United States of America.
· Lead, Monitor, and evaluate the Karenni community for their livelihoods sustainability in Omaha, NE and St. Paul, MN in U.S.A.
· Certificate of TKT (Teacher Knowledge Test), British Council, Yangon, 2020
· Certificate of Career Development, University of Pennsylvania, United States, 2017
· Certificate of regional Tour guide, Loikaw University, Kayah State, 2016.
· Certificate of Child abuse, Techny, Chicago, Illinois, United States
· Certificate of English (ESL); Completion of Philosophy, Theology, Music, and Psychology,Divine Word College, Iowa, United States, 2013-2015
· Bachelor of Science in Physics from Loikaw University, Kayah State, Myanmar, 2012.
o Electronics Physics,
o Quantum Mechanic
o Nuclear Physics,
o Condensed Matter Physics
o Theoretical Physics
· Certificate of computer: Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word; Management, Music, Leadership, and English, Youth Life Formation Center, Loikaw, Kayah State, 2008-2009.
AIMs
The primary aim of TE, English Second Language Practice Center, is to promote students’ English skill, and to increase the Education of Myanmar people.
How do learners train their brain to Think and Speak English that flows naturally?
We especially emphasize our English learners to train their brain to Think English daily which helps them speak English that flows naturally with less hesitation. "Think English Daily", we mean to think (a) English Vocabulary, (b) English Short Sentence, (c) Daily Conversation, and (d) Plan your day in English.
What does TE offer?
TE, English Second Language Practice Center, offers 4 skills of English in three levels: Basic/Intermediate/Advance.
For who does TE intend?
TE, English Second Language Practice Center, is especially intended for those enthusiasts who are willing to improve their English speaking and writing skill and who are not affordable (in any reason) to learn English in big cities such as Yangon, Taungyi, Nay Pyi Taw, and Mandalay.
What can learners achieve after TE course?
TE, English Second Language Practice Center strongly believes that our English learners will be able to communicate daily English conversation from Basic Level; to accelerate their English writing grammatically from Intermediate level; and to master their academic English writing from Advanced Level.
What else does TE provide?
📷ႏုိင္ငံတကာအဆင့္မီ အဂၤလိပ္စကားေျပာ ေလ့က်င့္ေရးသင္တန္း
အဂၤလိပ္စကားေျပာတိုုးတက္ရန္ လက္ေတြ႕ေလ့က်င့္လိုုသူမည္သူမဆိုု Think English (TE) ကိုုလွမ္းခဲ့ပါ။
📷အဂၤလိပ္စကားေျပာအတန္း အခ်ိန္ဇယား
Basic Level - 8:30 - 10:00 AM / 3:30 - 5:00 Pm
Intermediate Level - 10 - 12 AM
Advanced (upon request) or 5:30 - 7:00 PM.
TE အဂၤလိပ္စကားေျပာေလ့က်င့္ေရးသင္တန္းသည္အဂၤလိပ္ 4skills ကိုုေလ့က်င့္သင္ၾကား ေပးပါသည္။သည့္အျပင္TEအဂၤလိပ္စကားေျပာသင္တန္းသည္မိမိကိုုယ္ပိုုင္အေတြးအေခၚအား ျဖင့္မိမိအဂၤလိပ္စကားေျပာကိုု ယုုံၾကည့္မႈအျပည့္ႏွင့္ေၾကာက္ရြ႕ံျခင္းကင္းစြာေျပာတတ္ေအာင္ လက္ေတြ႔ေလ့က်င့္သင္ၾကားေပးေသာ အဂၤလိပ္စကားေျပာေလ့က်င့္ေရးသင္တန္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။
ေမး။ ။ဆရာ အဂၤလိပ္စကားေျပာသင္တန္းကိုု ဘယ္လိုုသင္ၾကားေပးပါသလဲ။
ေျဖ။ ။အဂၤလိပ္စကားေျပာကသင္ရတာအေတာ္မလြယ္လွဘူးဗ်။တက္ေရာက္သူသင္တန္းသား တစ္ဦးစီရဲ႕ေလ့လာမႈအား၊စိတ္၀င္စားမႈနဲ႔အထူးသျဖင့္စကားေျပာတတ္ဖိုု႔ရွက္/ေၾကာက္ျခင္းႏွင့္လက္ေတြ႔ေလ့က်င့္ျခင္းေပၚမူတည္ျပီးေလ့က်င့္သင္ၾကားေပးပါတယ္ဗ်။
- တခ်ိဳ႕ကေလ့က်င့္ေျပာဖိုု႔႐ွက္တတ္တယ္။တခ်ိဳ႕က႐ွက္ေၾကာက္ျခင္းကင္းျပီးေလ့က်င့္တတ္တယ္ဗ်။ ႐ွက္ေၾကာက္ျခင္းကင္းတဲ့ သင္တန္းသားေတြကိုု ေလ့က်င့္ေပးရတာ ပိုုလြယ္တာေပါ့။ ပိုုလည္းတတ္ျမန္တယ္ဗ်။
- တခ်ိဳ႕က တခါတည္းနဲ႔ေျပာတတ္တယ္။ တခ်ိဳ႕ကအႀကိမ္ႀကိမ္အခါခါသင္ေပးမွရတယ္ဗ်။ ဒီသင္တန္းသားေတြအတြက္ေတာ့ အခ်ိန္ပိုုေပးရပါတယ္ဗ်။
ဒါမ့ဲ အားလုုံးလက္ေတြ႕လိုုက္က်င့္သုုံးရမွာက မွတ္စုုယူျခင္း (Note taking)၊ Think English နဲ႔ မိမိကိုုယ္ပိုုင္အဂၤလိပ္ စကားေျပာျခင္း (Own English) ဘဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ေမး။ ။ဆရာသင္တဲ့အဂၤလိပ္က အေမရိကန္(American accent)လား၊ British accent လား။
ေျဖ။ ။ကၽြန္ေတာ္လြိဳင္ေကာ္တကၠသိုုလ္မွ ၂၀၁၂ Physics ေမဂ်ာသိပၺံဘြဲ႕ယူျပီး ၂၀၁၃ မွ ၂၀၁၅ အထိ အေမရိကန္႐ွိ DWC ေကာလိပ္မွာ အဂၤလိပ္နဲ႔အျခားဘာသာရပ္ေတြကိုု ၃ ႏွစ္ေက်ာင္းတက္ခဲ့တဲ့အတြက္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္အခုုေျပာတဲ့အဂၤလိပ္က American accent ပါဗ်။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ကၽြန္ေတာ္သင္တဲ့ အဂၤလိပ္ကလည္း American accent ဘဲပိုုမ်ားပါတယ္ဗ်။
ေမး။ ။ ဆရာ သင္တန္းအခ်ိန္ကာလ ဘယ္လိုုသတ္မွတ္ထားလဲ။
ေျဖ။ ။ သင္တန္းအခ်ိန္ကာလက level တစ္ခုုကိုု ၂ လ စီပါဗ် (၆၀ နာရီ)။ Level က ၃ ခုုေပါ့ (၁၈၀ နာရီ) ။ တေန႔ကိုု တစ္နာရီခြဲ၊ တပါတ္ကိုု ၅ ရက္သင္ေပးပါတယ္ဗ်။
ေမး။ ။ ဆရာ Level 1 တက္႐ုုံနဲ႔ အဂၤလိပ္စကားေျပာတတ္မလား။
ေျဖ။ ။ စကားေျပာ႐ုုံဘဲဆိုုရင္ ေျပာတတ္ပါတယ္။ ဘာျဖစ္လိုု႔လဲဆိုုေတာ့ ေလ့က်င့္တဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ မိမိရဲ႕ေန႔တိုုင္းအေတြ႕အႀကဳံေတြကိုုေျပာေစတယ္။ မိမိကိုုယ္ကုုိမိတ္ဆက္ျခင္းပါတာေပါ့။ အထူးသျဖင့္ မွတ္စုု (note taking) ယူတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ စကားစု (phrase) အလိုုက္ မွတ္သားရတာေၾကာင့္ လက္ေတြ႔ေျပာဆိုုျခင္းမွာ အခက္အခဲသိပ္မရွိေတာ့ပါဘူးဗ်။ ႏွစ္လအတြင္းေန႔တိုုင္း Think English နဲ႔ေလ့က်င့္ရတဲ့အတြက္ ေျပာတတ္ဖိုု႔က အေတာ္လြယ္သြားပါတယ္ဗ်။
ေမး။ ။ ဆရာ level အလိုုက္သင္ၾကားပိုု႔ခ်ေပးတဲ့ သင္ၾကားေရး Methodology ကိုု႐ွင္းျပေပးလိုု႔ရမလား။
ေျဖ။ ။ ရပါတယ္။ Level 1 က ေန႔တိုုင္းသုုံး daily speaking ကိုု grammar မွန္မွန္ကန္ကန္နဲ႔ေျပာတတ္ ေအာင္အစပ်ိဳးေပးပါတယ္ဗ်။ Grammar ေတာ့ပထမအဆင့္မွာ မျဖစ္မေနေလ့လာရပါတယ္ဗ်။ မိမိအေရးအသားအတြက္လည္း grammar ကမ႐ွိမျဖစ္ပါဘူးဗ်။ သည့္အျပင္ အဂၤလိပ္စကားကိုု မိမိနားလည္ထားတဲ့ grammar ေပၚအေျခခံျပီး မိမိကိုုယ္ပုုိင္အဂၤလိပ္စကား ေလ့က်င့္ေျပာရပါတယ္ဗ်။ အထူးသျဖင့္
- ေန႔စဥ္သုုံးအဂၤလိပ္စေကားေျပာ (စကားစုု phrase အလိုုက္အသုုံးျပဳျခင္း)
- Vocabulary ေ၀ါဟာရ အသုုံးျပဳပုုံအသုုံျပဳနည္း (Adjective/ noun/ verbs)
- Idiom နဲ႔ အခန္း ၂၀ ပါ၀င္တဲ့ English Conversation video ကေနလည္း listening skill ေလ့က်င့္သင္ၾကားေပးပါတယ္ဗ်။
ေျဖ။ ။ Level 2 ကပိုုအဆင့္ျမင့္တဲ့ အဂၤလိပ္စကားေျပာနည္း၊ Idioms၊ Vocabulary and English Phrase နဲ႔ Intermediate Grammar ကိုုထပ္ျပီးေလ့ လာရပါတယ္ဗ်။ ဒီအပိုုင္းမွာ အထူးေလ့လာရမွာက Clauses ေတြေပါ့။ ဥပမာ- Relative Clause အသုုံးျပဳနည္းေတြေပါ့။ မိမိကိုုယ္ပိုုင္အေရးအသားနဲ႔စကားေျပာေတြမွာ အသုုံးျပဳတတ္ေအာင္ ေလ့က်င့္ေပးပါတယ္ဗ်။
ေျဖ။ ။ Level 3 မွာေတာ့ အဆင့္ျမင့္တဲ့ English clauses နဲ႔ Phrases (adjective clause/phrase, Noun clause/phrase, Adverb clause/phrase, compound, complex, compund complex) ေတြကိုု ပထမပိုုင္းမွာေလ့လာရျပီး၊ ဒုုတိယပိုုင္းကိုု English Writing နဲ႔ Reading ေတြကိုုေလ့လာရပါတယ္။ တတိယပိုုင္းကိုုေတာ့ University of Pennsylvania တကၠသိုုလ္ကသင္ၾကားေပးတဲ့ Professional resume and cover letter writing ေတြကိုုေလ့က်င့္သင္ၾကားေပးပါတယ္။ သည့္အျပင္ အလုုပ္ေလ်ာက္တဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ အသုုံး၀င္မည့္ အလုုပ္အင္တာဗ်ဴး (Job Interview)ေျဖဆိုုနည္းေတြကိုုလည္း ေလ့က်င့္ေပးပါတယ္ဗ်။ အထူးသျဖင့္ Job interview Do's and Don't ေတြေပါ့။
- အဂၤလိပ္အေျပာအဆိုုနဲ႔အေရးအသားအေတြးအေခၚေတြအားလုုံး မိမိရဲ႕ကိုု္ယ္ပိုုင္စြမ္းေရေတြဘဲျဖစ္ရပါမယ္။ တပါးသူရဲ႕အေရးအသားအေတြးအေခၚေတြ ကူးယူျခင္းက TE မွာ အသုုံးမ၀င္ပါဘူးဗ်။ Plagiarism လိုု႔ေခၚပါတယ္ဗ်။
- Final assignment ၅ ခုုတင္ေပးရပါတယ္ဗ်။ ၄ မ်က္ႏွာ Essay ၂ ပုုဒ္နဲ႔ Application form, Resume, Cover letter ကိုုတင္ေပးရပါတယ္ဗ်။
ေမး။ ။ ဆရာ သင္တန္းေၾကးနဲ႔ပါတ္သက္ျပီး ႐ွင္းျပေပးလိုု႔ရမလား။
ေျဖ။ ။ သင္တန္းေၾကးက level အလိုက္သတ္မွတ္ထားပါတယ္။
- Level 1 က ၅၀၀၀၀ က်ပ္
- Level 2 က ၆၀၀၀၀ က်ပ္
- Level 3 က ၆၅၀၀၀ က်ပ္ သတ္မွတ္ထားပါတယ္။
- သင္တန္းနဲ႔ပါတ္သက္တဲ့ Course material အတြက္ပါ၀င္ျပီးသားျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ေမး။ ။ ဆရာ သင္တန္းသားဘယ္လိုုသတ္မွတ္ထားလဲ။
ေျဖ။ ။ သင္တန္းသားသတ္မွတ္ခ်က္မ႐ွိဘူးဗ်။ အဂၤလိပ္စကားေျပာတတ္ခ်င္သူတိုုင္း တက္ေရာက္ေလ့လာလိုု႔ရပါတယ္ဗ်။ ၁၀ တန္းေအာင္စရာမလိုုဘူးေပါ့။ ဒါမဲ့တဦးစီရဲ႕အဂၤလိပ္ စကားေျပာစြမ္းရည္ေပၚမူတည္ျပီး အတန္းခြဲသြားမယ္ဗ်။
ေမး။ ။ သင္တန္းသားကန္႔သတ္ထားလား ဆရာ။
ေျဖ။ ။ သင္တန္းသားေတာ့ ကန္႔သတ္ခ်က္႐ွိတယ္ဗ်။ လက္ေတြ႕က်က်ထိထိမိမိ သင္ၾကားပိုု႔ခ်ေရးအတြက္ သင္တန္းသားအမ်ားဆုုံး ၁၅ ေယာက္အထိဘဲလက္ခံပါတယ္ဗ်။
ေမး။ ။ ဆရာ ေက်ာင္းသူ/သားမ်ားနဲ႔ ႐ုုံး၀န္ထမ္းမ်ားအတြက္အခ်ိန္သည္းတန္႔စီစဥ္ေပးထား တာ႐ွိလား။
ေျဖ။ ။ ႐ွိပါတယ္။ ေက်ာင္းဆင္းခ်ိန္ နဲ႔႐ုုံးဆင္းခ်ိန္ ည ၅:၃၀ မွ ၇:၀၀ နာရီအထိလာေရာက္ေလ့ လာႏိုုင္ပါတယ္။
ေမး။ ။ဆရာ သင္တန္းဆင္းလက္မွတ္ထုုပ္ေပးလား။
ေျဖ။ ။ သင္တန္း level ၃ခုုလုုံးျပီးေျမာက္ေအာင္ျမင္ပါက သင္တန္းဆင္းလက္မွတ္ထုုပ္ေပးပါ တယ္။ အထူးသျဖင့္ Advanced level မွ Final assignment ၅ ခုုျဖစ္သည့္ ၄ မ်က္ႏွာ Essay ၂ ပုုဒ္၊ Application form, Resume, နဲ႔ Cover letter ကိုုတင္ျပီးမွသာ သင္တန္းဆင္းလက္မွတ္ထုုပ္ေပးပါတယ္ဗ်။
ေမး။ ။အဂၤလိပ္စကားေျပာအျပင္ ဘာေတြသင္ေပးပါသလဲ ဆရာ။
ေျဖ။ ။သင္တန္းတက္ျပီး အဂၤလိပ္အေျပာအေရးတတ္ေျမာက္သြားျပီဆိုုေတာ့ အဂၤလိပ္စကားျပန္လုုပ္ငန္း လုုပ္ေစပါတယ္။ ဆရာက အဂၤလိပ္စကားျပန္လည္းလုုပ္တဲ့အတြက္ လိုုအပ္တဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ ဆရာ့ရဲ႕သင္တန္းဆင္း ေက်ာင္းသား ေက်ာင္းသူေတြကိုုဘဲ စကားျပန္အလုုပ္ေပးပါတယ္။ သင္တန္းဆင္း မ်ား စကားျပန္အေတြ႕အၾကဳံရသြားျပီးေနာက္ သူတိုု႔အတြက္ အလုုပ္အခြင့္အလမ္းေတြကိုု ဆက္လက္ ကူညီပံ့ပိုုးေပးပါတယ္။
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