[OT] command of English by non-native speakers

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

> Your point about thinking about words with different origin shows that
> you're aware of homophones in grammatical structure, and learning
> another language clarifies rules that are almost innate in most
> people, but sometimes blurred. I really think that learning another
> language improves your mastery of your native tongue too.
>
>   

Nah, you just need to reintroduce grammar back into the school 
curriculum. Then you won't have universities in the UK, Australia and 
the US lamenting about the level of English of their local students.


Learning English will do squat for the kids here in Hong Kong because 
the local schools have most unhelpfully been told by the local Education 
Bureau to not teach grammar (not that the schools have teachers who are 
qualified to teach grammar anyway...they rarely make proper sentences 
themselves) but to imitate the teaching style of countries which have 
English as their mother tongue. Is it not wonderful that they are going 
to follow a failed teaching policy?

Hong Kong is doomed. Doomed!