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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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Taxes & language classes
Does anyone know if you can deduct foreign language classes as professional development or a business expense on your taxes? If it helps, I am a translator by profession.
Just trying to figure out how to justify my Alliance Francaise expenses (the immediate payoff of which is a whole group of new people to hang out with in Paris- yay!).
Re: Taxes & language classes
I'm sorry I can't help you with the tax question, I have no clue...
I wanted to ask though, what do you think of the Alliance Francaise? compared to other language schools you might have tried? I'd like DH to learn French at some point so he can speak with my family and there's an Alliance Francaise not too far from our house.
It all depends on the teacher. There seem to be varying levels of qualifications for the teachers at the AF. My teacher now is amazing. She's a PhD who has focused on comparative linguistics and comparative literature for over 20 years and she knows both the detailed answers to every nerdy question my brain can come up with and a way to explain the answer coherently to everyone around. She's awesome at recommending novels for different tastes and reading levels and she has great energy in the classroom.
The majority of the teachers at AF, however, seem to be far younger and have much less experience, according to my classmates who've been through the various levels. I don't know what the minimum requirement is for teaching, if it's a Master's or what, but I would imagine that at the very least, they have a degree in something relating to language and literature to teach at the AF.
Other places where I've taken foreign languages in the past (a variety of independent schools in New York and Boston) did not have any kind of minimum criteria. My worst teacher was one who was a native speaker of her language, but had studied business in her country and had zero idea how to explain any kind of grammar or pronunciation rules to people who were not native speakers. She was basically just teaching to make money until she could find a job in her field in the U.S. I can't imagine this happening at the AF.