---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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 ) -- Adi Orian ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------