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, slowing down your speech will overcome. - @Woodsy RetiredNo, it won't. A badly pronounced word is just slowly badly pronounced.It's like the old meme of a British colonist shoulting loudly in the hope non-English speaking natives will understand ... Read More

Oh, don't mean to be rude, but I find your last paragraph to be complete nonsense. To suggest that one can't be a successful EL Teacher without that working knowledge is, well, not really having a grasp of being an EL Teacher.i taught for 7 years ... Read More

And further Fred, your suggestion that dialects of the State should be a barrier to EL teaching is, again, making me wonder how much you really understand about the craft of EL teaching. - @Woodsy Retired If I, as a native speaker of English, can't ... Read More

https://en.yenisafak.com/world/putin-offers-ukraine-election-day-truce-for-votes-from-citizens-in-russia-3712114Putin has offered a ceasefire if free and fair elections are held in Ukraine.Many don't know because it doesn't suit the 'truth' as we ... Read More

Trump won't rule out attacking a country that has no serious ability to attack the US.https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/crude-oil-prices-today-trump-venezuela.htmlThe US has started many wars over the years, many were about stealing oil, but this is ... Read More

" . . . mathematical statistics. . . ."Are there any non-mathematical statistics? Asking for a friend. - @Lennerdhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/2685641Who knows, it sounds like a load of old bal........derdash to me Read More

So, just to summarise the timeline of my experience working here in Vietnam as a teacher: I arrived in October last year and started working immediately without any prior experienceWas told I am not a good teacher. - @NoelwastakenDid you jump into a ... Read More

Nowhere in this thread is the issue of pronunciation competency addressed. - @OceanBeach92107The spoken word. Vocab is number one. The more words a student knows, the better they can communicate with an interlocutor. Grammar comes third, but only ... Read More

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VorME7I6-00&pp=ugUEEgJmcg%3D%3DThese protesters know what the real score is. The EU is pushing for a war, but at least some people know what that will mean. Read More

Share prices: I reckon defence and resource stocks is a sector worth understanding. I've been looking at these companies and their involvement around the world. - @fluffy2560I ... Read More

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ukraine-hits-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker-mediterranean-first-time-sbu-source-2025-12-19/This is getting dangerously close to a far more serious conflict.Ukraine has once again attacked a civilian ... Read More

Our suburb is pretty densely populated and properties have high walls/secure doors/window grilles/security shutters/CCTV/COT etc. Nonetheless, there's no shortage of thieves, from chancers to druggies to organised groups. - @JimJ Not so much a ... Read More

Ukraine:EU to issue €90 billion in joint debt for Ukraine after hitting a wall on reparations loanloan.Faced with a stalemate over Belgian demands to obtain unlimited guarantees before tapping into the immobilised Russian assets hosted in the ... Read More

Justice and fairness, but we'll sanction you if you try to prosecute our war criminals, or those of our friends.https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/ … rime-probeThe US has decided that criminal investigations into those who mass murder ... Read More

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/18/does-the-us-have-any-real-claim-on-venezuelan-oil-as-stephen-miller-saysThis seems to be a pretty fair and unbiased view of the history of US/Venezuela oil deals, and why Miller and Trump think they own ... Read More