John Parker is an English language teacher.He was always good at languages at school,so he decided to take his degrees in French and German.When he finished his university studies,he began teaching in a secondary school in England.Two years later,however,he met someone by chance who offered him a job teaching English to foreign students during summer holidays.His students were adults and he enjoyer the work enormously.He soon found he was more interested in teaching his own language to foreigners than in teaching foreign languages to English schoolboys.
约翰帕克是一名英语教师。在他还是学生时在语言方面就很有天赋，因此他决定考取法语和德语学位。在他完成学业大学毕业后，开始在英国的一所中学教书。然而，两年后，他很偶然的遇到了一个人，这个人给他提供了一份在暑假教外国学生英语的工作。他的学生都是成年人而且他非常喜欢这份工作。很快他就发现，相比教英国学生外语，他更喜欢教外国人自己的母语。
Since then he has specialized in this work.He has found that one of the advantages of the job is that it enables him to him to find work almost everywhere in the world.First he went to Africa for two years and then he spent a year in Asia.After this he went to Italy where he has worked for the last two years.He hasn’t been to Arabia yet ,but he intends to go there next.He has taught men and women of all ages and of various nationalities.He has also learned to get on with all kinds of people and to get used to different ways of life.He likes this way of life and has never regretted his decision to follow this career. 那时候他对这份工作已经很擅长了。他发现这种工作的好处之一就是他在世界上任何地方都能找到工作。他先去非洲呆了两年，然后又在亚洲呆了一年。这之后他去了意大利，过去的两年他一直在那儿工作。他还没有去过阿拉伯，但是他打算下次就去那儿。他已经教过各种年龄、各个国家的男人和女人。他也学会了与各种不同的人相处，学会了去习惯各种不同的生活方式。他喜欢这种生活方式，并且从来没有后悔过选择了这个职业。