Li Yang: “Conquer English to Make China Stronger!” cosmology ties the ability to speak English to personal strength, and personal strength to national power.

Learning English or Nationalist Populism?

A seven page article in the New Yorker by Evan Osnos

Slideshow and audio, "I AM THE SON OF CHINESE PEOPLE..."

Anyone a student?

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Two YouTube videos:

Tom and his CRAZY ENGLISH

Crazy English at HUSE (Hunan University of Science and Engineering)

"I want to speak PERFECT ENGLISH"

Because i'm English we stop learning the language and now do analytical studies and look at allegorical literature. If you need help with English i'd be glad to help. However I speak UK English which is a bit different to American English.

crazy english, watch this...


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err... what was the points of seeing a yankee, rapping.

Here's an article about Li Yang helping to train 20,000 of 100,000 volunteers some English phrases for the Beijing Olympics.

Li Yang:

Quote:
Describing himself as a businessman and not a teacher, Li has turned his own success into the running of over 100 summer camps a year , charging 3,388 yuan (HK$3,858) for an eight-day training camp in Beijing and up to 18,000 yuan in Guangdong.

"I never went abroad ... I even failed in my college English exam," confessed the 38-year-old Jiangsu native.

The Standard (HK): Crazy teacher says mistakes are good - Carol Chung in Beijing, Thursday, August 14, 2008