[etni] After mastering the ABCs of Israeli politics, Yacimovich's new challenge is the English language Israel News - Haaretz Israeli News source.

  • From: sara g <saragabai@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ETNI list <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, english@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 09:16:33 +0200

no politics, just something about the importance of knowing English. (I
hope you can read the article.)
http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/diplomania/after-mastering-the-abcs-of-israeli-politics-yacimovich-s-new-challenge-is-the-english-language.premium-1.473827

It starts like this:

On Tuesday afternoon, Labor Party chairman Shelly Yacimovich spoke at the
Mount Zion Hotel in Jerusalem at the Jewish People Policy Institute’s
annual conference. For a quarter of an hour, Yacimovich presented her
socioeconomic doctrine. Nothing was new in the content of her speech, but
one thing was very different: she spoke in English.

“Ladies and gentlemans,” Yacimovich began. Like the dozens of people
sitting in the audience, most of whom were Americans, I began squirming
uncomfortably in my seat at this jarring grammatical error. Yacimovich
plunged on, reading out her speech at dictation pace, with her gaze fixed
to the words on the printed pages in her hands.

Yacimovich, an exciting and engaging orator when she speaks in Hebrew,
disappeared when she spoke in English. All of a sudden, the charismatic
leader turned into a monotonous lecturer at a boring university course.
After she finished her speech and hurried to escape the auditorium, I spoke
to some of the audience members who had heard her. Like me, they were
unpleasantly surprised. “It’s important to be able to speak well in front
of a non-Israeli audience,” said one man. “She didn’t leave the impression
of someone who’s ripe for national leadership.”

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