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[quote=PINETREE                ,21914]WOCCA | -General- | 2006-02-26 03:41:19 GMT-6  	Reply this discussion Reply Back to Discussion list Back  	I'd rather see where it's goingbefore jumping in feet first ...I can only really consider this topicfrom a foreign teacher's point of view.Basically,I agree with Rita's comments.As you are aware, I teach English as aforeign language to postgraduates at a university in China.There are 10 foreign teachers here.Many uni's have that number.We are employed because we ARE foreigners,and teach within the English Department ofthe university's Foreign Language School.When I went to school in a western country,we would have considered ourselves to bevery lucky if our government invited native-speakers from the native-speaking countriesof whichever foreign language we were thenstudying. UNQUOTEBut you are a USAmerican, right ? So strictly speaking you are not native English. Is this why most "English" speaking Chinese speak USA form of English instead ? There is also a slight difference between English english & USA english.[/quote]

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