Anthony, many-many thanks for your point. I really do not understand that guy, ok, I want to learn British English, I requested British tutor, I refused to employ American one, and that "Russian former English teacher" started to attack my point and to impose that American is better.
Really, thank you! 2008/9/3 Anthony Corbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Would you go to Quebec to learn French, or Brazil to learn Portuguese? I > doubt it. Why would you want to learn American English with all its > corruptions and barely understandable slang, originating from immigration > several hundred years ago, when you can learn British English, the latest > form of a language that is constantly refining? In addition, the UK is > considerably closer, unless you live in the Far East. > > Why would you teach both forms of a language? That is like teaching several > dialects of a language at the same time. > > My two pence worth! > > Anthony > > 2008/9/2 Kirill Galetski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi, >> >> Russians' preoccupation with British English and necessarily having a >> British is irksome at best, idiotic at worst. As a former English teacher, I >> take offence [sic] to it. >> >> The world standard for business is American English, with all of the >> trappings thereof. It's not an accident that major non-Anglo corporations >> such as German concern Bosch have American English as their standard for all >> English-language communications. >> >> To quote Bill Bryson from his book MADE IN AMERICA, An Informal History of >> the English Language in the United States, >> >> "To this day it remains a commonplace in England that American English is >> a corrupted form of British speech, that the inhabitants of the New World >> display a kind of helpless, chronic 'want of refinement' every time they >> open their mouths and attempt to issue sounds. In fact, in several >> significant ways it is British speech that has become corrupted, or, to put >> it in less reactionary terms, has quietly evolved." >> >> Nevertheless, I believe that when English is taught, both the American and >> British varieties should be taught in nearly equal measure. This implies >> having a teacher that is competent to do both, but it certainly does not >> limit the teacher to being only of the British nationality. >> >> Just my two kopeks' worth. >> >> Kirill. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 12:03:37 +0400 (MSD) >> Subject: Expat Digest, Vol 47, Issue 3 >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> > Message: 1 >> > Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 21:37:25 +0400 >> > From: "Dasha Repina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > Subject: Re: Expat List English tutor >> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "The Moscow Expat List" <[email protected]> >> > Message-ID: >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> > >> > Hi John, >> > >> > thanks a lot for your attention, but the requirement of my boss is quite >> > exact. He wants British teacher. >> > >> > All of the best, Daria. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Expat mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat >> http://www.expat.ru/forum/ >> > > > > -- > Anthony Corbett > Head of International M&A > Vimpelcom > 4 Krasnoproletarskaya St. > Moscow 127006 > Russian Federation > > T: +7909 991 7783 > M: +7962 942 1682 > E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > S: anthonycorbett > > _______________________________________________ > Expat mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat > http://www.expat.ru/forum/ >
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