Comments on: Anyone can learn a language in just three months http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/tefl-links/learn-a-language-in-three-months/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alex Case http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/tefl-links/learn-a-language-in-three-months/comment-page-1/#comment-3404 Alex Case Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:23:23 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=1132#comment-3404 Luckily, looks like the BBC still does journalism, with a less than flattering mention of i-to-i: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/excessbaggage/index_20080906.shtml And the BBC again on the links between modern journalism and PR: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/thinkingallowed_20080903.shtml btw- if you are living abroad and not listening to both of these programmes, delete the latest crap for Coldplay and make room for them on your iPod right now! Luckily, looks like the BBC still does journalism, with a less than flattering mention of i-to-i:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/excessbaggage/index_20080906.shtml

And the BBC again on the links between modern journalism and PR:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/thinkingallowed_20080903.shtml

btw- if you are living abroad and not listening to both of these programmes, delete the latest crap for Coldplay and make room for them on your iPod right now!

]]> By: Alex Case http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/tefl-links/learn-a-language-in-three-months/comment-page-1/#comment-3402 Alex Case Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:22:37 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=1132#comment-3402 OMG, another Guardian advertorial: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/sep/06/gapyears.gapyeartravel And yet somewhere in the same newspaper you'll almost certainly find something praising the Venezuelans for their socialist principles... OMG, another Guardian advertorial:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/sep/06/gapyears.gapyeartravel

And yet somewhere in the same newspaper you’ll almost certainly find something praising the Venezuelans for their socialist principles…

]]> By: Karenne Sylvester http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/tefl-links/learn-a-language-in-three-months/comment-page-1/#comment-3399 Karenne Sylvester Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:12:48 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=1132#comment-3399 Ha, ha... Alex - my Aunt sent me the article you link to from here. I could not believe that this "used-car" salesman approach had actually been printed and published so I did a bunch of research on it ...and who the journalist was, she's actually got a good list of reasonable articles to her name. I was trying to figure out how on earth this crap actually made it into the Guardian of all places. Especially as they're normally on the up and up re English teaching. Na, ya. You've answered the question - it was an advertorial. Sigh. What has happened to the Guardian? Ha, ha… Alex – my Aunt sent me the article you link to from here.

I could not believe that this “used-car” salesman approach had actually been printed and published so I did a bunch of research on it …and who the journalist was, she’s actually got a good list of reasonable articles to her name.

I was trying to figure out how on earth this crap actually made it into the Guardian of all places. Especially as they’re normally on the up and up re English teaching. Na, ya. You’ve answered the question – it was an advertorial.

Sigh. What has happened to the Guardian?

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