Do your duty when you are living abroad
… make sure you don’t learn the local language.
“Indeed, the large numbers of people in Asia learning English, or coming to the West to learn English, without any corresponding trend among non-native speakers to learn Asian languages, were entrenching English’s position as the world’s second language.”
In other words, if you learn foreign languages you will help make yourself unemployed.
From the provocatively titled article Call to Nurture the English Language Empire.
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January 21st, 2009 at 11:10 am
I like the cut of your gib. Keep plugging away with Headway Pre-int and never allow them to progress any further.