{"id":22883,"date":"2023-05-13T11:47:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T11:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22883"},"modified":"2023-05-13T11:47:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T11:47:14","slug":"teaching-school-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22883","title":{"rendered":"Teaching School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an email I received yesterday the phrase &#8220;I teach school&#8221; appeared. Although I understand what it means, it sounds a bit strange to me. I suppose it&#8217;s a difference between American English and British English.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/115089924@N02\/12212474014\/in\/photolist-jBb83N-aDhkDg-do5TBP-2kfaMRC-2ofgyng-9sn9pH-deidiN-7Bzg75-6LMyyU-2oevq7D-2ng33th-7NbBQd-s5FjN3-CtKYFe-5wwMRG-7BzwTb-jsyKgS-2bsoo96-rNdGLC-cekUud-2kfaNat-gjqZJs-WsdeDV-6CQ2L7-okGd94-cdjgxm-9weyx9-gbZuTS-d1HRn5-Cxso5P-29XrPdS-2mLJ2k6-66SG2X-EGexZe-2j5CSzL-swaSS-2o7drbh-2hCTicB-Qw3x-d1HRpw-7QrxNC-7XWSeJ-d1HRgo-4FWVjg-2j7fKBu-ndFN4Q-7BveUZ-2oeXDJf-gbZnZ2-s5PdwT\" title=\"students-in-class-with-teacher-reading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7433\/12212474014_523cd63525_z.jpg\" alt=\"students-in-class-with-teacher-reading\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If I were a teacher, I might say that &#8220;I teach in\/at a school&#8221;, &#8220;I&#8217;m a teacher&#8221; or just &#8220;I teach&#8221;, but not &#8220;I teach school&#8221; &#8211; that sounds to me like I teach a subject called &#8216;school&#8217;. You could also say &#8220;I teach languages\/music\/physics\/[insert name of subject]&#8221; or &#8220;I teach school children [subject]&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Would American English speakers, of speakers of other flavours of English, say &#8220;I teach college&#8221;, &#8220;I teach university&#8221; or &#8220;I teach kindergarten&#8221;, or is this structure just used with school? Is it used only in informal writing\/speech, or also in formal writing\/speech?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an email I received yesterday the phrase &#8220;I teach school&#8221; appeared. Although I understand what it means, it sounds a bit strange to me. I suppose it&#8217;s a difference between American English and British English. If I were a teacher, I might say that &#8220;I teach in\/at a school&#8221;, &#8220;I&#8217;m a teacher&#8221; or just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22885,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22883\/revisions\/22885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}