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Who's Herman and what's so good about him?
What makes you think I can give a third-world child a better education than s/he can get at school?
Does it make sense to do tutoring one-on-one in such a scenario?
I understand why you think my government should pay for another's education, but what guarantee do I have that this newly educated child will promote trade with my country?
How does this tutoring take place? (via e-mail, you say, but this is a student in an economically disadvantaged country - where does s/he get a computer?)
How do you propose to teach technological concepts only via e-mail through someone who may only have a rough understanding of the language?
So many questions, so few buen hermano. |
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I rather like this idea, but can't think of what to say. |
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I like this idea, provided that no-one vets the "learning materials" created. Good Brothers have creative carte blanche. |
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The way schools do this already is by arranging letter exchanges between students of the same grade in a foreign language-speaking country. I had a "pen-pal" from Ohio throughout elementary school, as she was also learning spanish. |
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It's been a while... she might be working on a taco-bell somewhere. At least she will say "taco" with a nice accent. |
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Y'know, Pericles, I looked at your annotation for a while, saying "taco? taco! taco, taco, taco..." over and over again. Not only has the word subsequently lost all meaning to me, but I also can't think of a single other way to pronounce it. |
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Believe me[OP], there are many ways to say "taco", but there's only one right way. The problem is, american people think they invented the dish (and the word) because they invented taco bell... not that it's their fault to think so. The most accurate pronunciation i've hear on foreigners speaking spanish is that of Greeks and Germans, not even italians. Strange, huh? |
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Strange, but strange on the side of delicious. |
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"TOCK-o"... "TAH-ko"... "TAW-ko"... "TACK-o"... |
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Having attempted to pronounce some phrases in Spanish, to the satisfaction of my Venzuelan staff member, I understand the problem, [Pericles]. |
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Worse is trying to copy the accents of my Afrikaner staff, Ockie and Kobie (Ockert and Jacobus). Afrikaans is a sort of hodgepodge of Flemish, German and English. |
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And I misread this one, following yesterday's success at the Paris Masters, as El Bueno Henman. |
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