[etni] Fwd: re: Learn to speak English

  • From: David Lloyd <dlloyd54@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Etni <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:06:14 +0300

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From: Adi Orian <austenorian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Learn to speak English


Can I just comment that this goes both ways - all the English teachers
who have lived in Israel for years and don't bother to learn proper
Hebrew are also very offensive to the language and the people. I know,
Hebrew is not the language of Hasbarah, but it is our national
language. Adi


Marlene wrote:
> I was watching an interview in English with our security minister
> Barak on FOX news. Such heavily accented Israeli English!  I was
> cringing in my seat as the interviewer struggled painfully to make
> sense of his interviewee's often wrongly misplaced collocations. Too
> bad there were no subtitles - as he was barely understood.  His
> extremely polite interviewer looked quite relieved when the short
> interview was over.


> > Learn to speak English
> > Op-ed: To do well in modern world, Israel needs top-notch English speakers
> > Ynet News - 31/07/10
> >
> > (To read the whole article, go to -
> > http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3927419,00.html )

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Adi Orian
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