| Hi Jian Shuo: Love your blog. I'd like to help if you feel you need it. I just read your old message re Volunteer Help. Your English has a foreign edge which adds color to your voice, but it is not native-like written English. I'm getting an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language and hope to teach in China soon. We, teachers of English here, are wondering who is teaching spoken and written English to Microsoft native employees in China? Does Microsoft use Global English, a virtual classroom for English language learning? Or, do they have inhouse teachers? Also, I have noticed in going to major tourist sites in China that many, many explanatory signs on exhibits and historical sites are in really really bad English -- almost as bad as the Yantai hotel English in another blog. There should be a concerted effort to clean all these up before the 2008 Olympics when the world will be on Beijing's doorsteps, don't you think? I have noticed many taxi drivers are already trying to improve their English.
Thanks for the info!! Let me know if I can help. Jeannie |
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