Well, the Australians obviously need better English as a second language classes.
Mark On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Thomas Dalton<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/7/10 stevertigo <[email protected]>: >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Milos Rancic<[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:53 PM, David Gerard<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> I remember reading in Isaac Asimov's autobiography how, as a chemist >>>> in the 1940s, he had to learn French and German well enough to read >>>> papers in those languages. So the lingua franca in a field varies with >>>> time as well as field. >>> >>> English is the last lingua franca. In 20-30 years we'll have good >>> enough translators and in 20-30 years it is not big enough period of >>> time for changing lingua franca. >> >> If someone knows someone, putting eight billion dollars a year into >> English-language teaching in Africa, China, Australia and elsewhere >> would be a good place to start. > > You're going to have to explain that one... what is wrong with the > current English-language teaching in Australia? > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
