Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 27, 2019 4:34:10 GMT 12
SOME TIPS ABOUT TE REO
We may feel some sadness at the decline of the historic Gaelic language but the hard fact is that the prime purpose of language is communication and people will inevitably use the most useful language for it. We may feel the same about that increasingly artificial language Te Reo, but Gaelic and Te Reo will inevitably become ornamental languages like Latin – OK for a few school mottoes and the like and little else.
English is the international language.[xv] I (Bruce Moon) have taught English to Tibetans, Poles, Czechs and Ni-Vanuatu – all eager to learn it.
As I write (17th March 2017), a granddaughter of mine is en route to Columbia to teach English at a Spanish-speaking school.[xvi]
North of the Arctic Circle, Norwegian schoolboys come to meet the coastal steamers to practice their English on the tourists aboard.[xvii]
Tune in to BBC TV or Aljazeera and you will find people speaking in English – a Mexican, a Pole and a Gambian in one bulletin I noted.
The coat of arms of Uganda bears the words “For God and my Country”.[xviii] From India to Namibia it is understood almost everywhere and the Chinese, no fools, are becoming very proficient in it.
We can be thankful that English is the normal native tongue of the New Zealand-born.
PARENTS WHO “IMMERSE” THEIR CHILDREN IN TE REO INSTEAD PLAY A CRUEL TRICK ON THEM TO ADVANCE THEIR OWN AGENDA.
Excellence in English should be a prime objective of our schools and that is the place to spend taxpayers’ money.....
Read Bruce Moon’s enlightening article here breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/bruce-moon-some-tips-about-te-reo.html
We may feel some sadness at the decline of the historic Gaelic language but the hard fact is that the prime purpose of language is communication and people will inevitably use the most useful language for it. We may feel the same about that increasingly artificial language Te Reo, but Gaelic and Te Reo will inevitably become ornamental languages like Latin – OK for a few school mottoes and the like and little else.
English is the international language.[xv] I (Bruce Moon) have taught English to Tibetans, Poles, Czechs and Ni-Vanuatu – all eager to learn it.
As I write (17th March 2017), a granddaughter of mine is en route to Columbia to teach English at a Spanish-speaking school.[xvi]
North of the Arctic Circle, Norwegian schoolboys come to meet the coastal steamers to practice their English on the tourists aboard.[xvii]
Tune in to BBC TV or Aljazeera and you will find people speaking in English – a Mexican, a Pole and a Gambian in one bulletin I noted.
The coat of arms of Uganda bears the words “For God and my Country”.[xviii] From India to Namibia it is understood almost everywhere and the Chinese, no fools, are becoming very proficient in it.
We can be thankful that English is the normal native tongue of the New Zealand-born.
PARENTS WHO “IMMERSE” THEIR CHILDREN IN TE REO INSTEAD PLAY A CRUEL TRICK ON THEM TO ADVANCE THEIR OWN AGENDA.
Excellence in English should be a prime objective of our schools and that is the place to spend taxpayers’ money.....
Read Bruce Moon’s enlightening article here breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/bruce-moon-some-tips-about-te-reo.html