Re: What's MEXT in English?

From: Kevin Wayne Williams (kww.nihongo_at_verizon.nut)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:24:12 -0700

Jed Rothwell wrote:

> Is it really necessary to have native speakers of English as teachers?
> Clearly, the skills of the present generation of Japanese teachers are
> inadequate. But it seems to me that in countries such as Germany, Sweden and
> certainly India people speak English perfectly well without native speaker
> instruction.

I think that many Indians would bristle at you not thinking of them as
native speakers of English. It's an unusual dialect to our ears, but
there are probably more speakers of Indian English than British.

KWW

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