Re: What's MEXT in English?

From: necoandjeff (spam_at_schrepfer.com)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:39:30 GMT

"Kevin Wayne Williams" <kww.nihongo@verizon.nut> wrote in message
news:10i1ntdbjv10l54@news.supernews.com...
> 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.

I wouldn't even think of it as unusual; charming perhaps.

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