Fascinating. I volunteer at Imperial for a programme that matches native & non-native English speakers for informal conversation sessions on a weekly basis. Partners are switched every 5 weeks. I'd say about 75% of the students I meet are Chinese. They all tell me that English is terribly difficult, to which my response is that I couldn't conduct a conversation in Chinese with them to save my life, while they have the skills to think and write in English at quite a sophisticated level!
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Date: 2010-04-26 09:51 am (UTC)