Posts Tagged ‘language’

Chrome wants to be helpful by translating a page from Japanese to English. Okay. What I find interesting isn’t so much the fact that Chrome is asking if I want to have the site translated; it’s that Chrome isn’t asking if I want to use an English Google site instead.

Yesterday I received an email from someone who wanted to know why I would not call myself an English teacher, and instead use the title “language facilitator”. Here’s why.

Believe it or not, I had a terrible habit back in Canada.  It wasn’t one with drugs, alcohol, women, or even excessive weight gain.  Instead it was something much more insidious. Something that, once you’ve been bitten, it’s very hard
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