Mini-debate: English Globalization
Same format as usual: Background reading, short discussion, learn new vocab and debate the issue in small groups.
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Mini-debate: English Globalization
Same format as usual: Background reading, short discussion, learn new vocab and debate the issue in small groups.
You need to be a member of MyEnglishClub to add comments!
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Nancy, no marks for this comment as it should have been made before the class, and not after. Sorry.
Well Wang Shuaitian, although learning English from only twelve years of age, at least you have started somewhere! There are many children in China today who don;t even get education, let alone learning English. But, as you can see (and hear), if you started from an earlier age like Jackie (5 or 6 years), your English would have been more advanced today!
Haha Kelly, they don't speak English in America! Well, at least not pure English! If you do some research, you would discover that English is actually not even the official language of America! The US was also a colony of Britain, and after independence, they changed many things not to resemble too much British any longer! So, they changed the spelling and pronunciation of many English words and they even changed the way they were driving on the roads (from the left side to the right - like they are doing in China)! So, I believe that it was the Americans who first started to 'sabotage' the English language! And indeed, because of that, they made English language studies more complicated, because nowadays you hear about American English and British English. But before American "English" was born, there existed only one English language, i.e. British English! :)
Yes Nancy, I noticed that you were slow with comments this semester! But I am happy that you eventually paid a visit to the website! Welcome back!
Sorry Maxine, I was checking back for something and then noticed that I slipped up replying to your comment. Now it is too late. Hope you have already forgiven me! ;-)
I hope you did learn something through this lesson, Maxine! I noticed that you were very quiet .. (maybe you missed Crystal from the front row)!
You are so clever, Liu Yufan! I agree with what you say! English is the key that unlocks the world to us! But just think how nice it is that through this one language we can extend our family ... by implication, you will then have another 'father' in South Africa and I will have another daughter in Huludao ... and all over China! ;-)
Pauline, see my comment to Hetty (Jiang Chunyu) about the browsers. I think that's where your problem with the computer (or Internet) lies!
Haha CC, I knew that saying, "Long time no see" since my childhood (which is quite a number of years ago!) and it is definitely not Chinglish! That is an English saying! Maybe the Chinese language has the same saying, but that would then just be a coincidence, I think! Or, it may be proof that the Chinese and English languages were introduced to each other before I was born! ;-)
Yes Tian Jing, it may be so, but I suggest you read my comment to Ada as I am of the opinion that learning another language shouldn't have a negative effect on a (strong) culture!
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