Learning english in Great Britain
<votre nom>
I am a lawyer in a French compagny, and I would like to improve my
english. I am going to have 6 months free.
I would like to find a retired English teacher living in Great Britain,
who will give me 5 hours of english lessons per day and give me
housing for pay.
Also, I would come with my daughter. She is four years old and since
her birth she has had a British or Americain baby sitter.
I would like to enrol her at British school until June.
Can you help me?
Sincerely
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Dominique LAMOUREUX
Paris, France,
Phone : + 33(0)1 4628 4684
Fax : + 33 1(0)1 4628 4684
E. mail : nes...@easynet.fr
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T Bruce Tober
In a rather exuberant mood, "<votre nom>" <nes...@easynet.fr> writes
>I am a lawyer in a French compagny, and I would like to improve my
>english. I am going to have 6 months free.
No lawyer has or does anything (for) free. if you're going to learn
english better, that's one of the first things you need to learn. "-}
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T Bruce Tober
In a rather exuberant mood, Anthony <ant...@dircon.co.uk> writes
>T Bruce Tober wrote:
>
>> No lawyer has or does anything (for) free. if you're going to learn
>> english better, that's one of the first things you need to learn. "-}
>
>incomplete it does not justify such untrue generalisations.
Obviously you missed the smiley at the end of the comment. Sorry to have
offended, twas not my intent. As bobbie will no doubt point out, it's a
cliché, but in all honesty, some of my best friends are and always have
been, lawyers.
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T Bruce Tober (octob...@reporters.net) wrote:
: In a rather exuberant mood, "<votre nom>" <nes...@easynet.fr> writes
: >I am a lawyer in a French compagny, and I would like to improve my
: >english. I am going to have 6 months free.
Bruce Tober wrote:
: No lawyer has or does anything (for) free. if you're going to learn
: english better, that's one of the first things you need to learn. "-}
Somehow the original posting didn't make it into my system, but now that
this whole thread has shown up, it surprises me that, despite all the
nonsense answers, no one has bothered to give the fellow anything to go on.
(and to answer the "smart" comment, I should think that having six months
free, and choosing to spend that time studying English would certainly
more than qualify as an investment for the future)
To the original poster, wishing to improve his English through study in
Great Britain, there are a great number of options there. If you have
access to the WWW, you might check the listings of schools at the
Linguistic Funland website http://linguistic-funland.com (please note
the new URL) under ESL/EFL Study Programs/Teacher Training and Programs
for Students. Notice that a great many of the schools which offer teacher
training offer ESL/EFL courses for students as well. (one well-known
school which offers teacher training *and* ESL/EFL courses is
International House, with locations in several parts of the UK. Another
is Pilgrims)
The British Council also publishes listings of schools for studying
English in Great Britain. You can get such a listing from the British
Council education office in your country (usually in the capital)
You can also get a listing of schools which have websites by doing a
search on one of the WWW search engines (also available at Linguistic
Funland) and specifying *where* you wish to study.
I hope this will help.
Meg
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T Bruce Tober
In a rather exuberant mood, ESLTEACHER <tea...@dorsai.org> writes
>
>lish,uk.teachers,uk.legal,uk.education.teachers
>References: <nestor-2912...@asfr1-41.easynet.fr> <V8F0A7BA3VyyEwRV@crec
>on.demon.co.uk>
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>Distribution: world
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>T Bruce Tober (octob...@reporters.net) wrote:
>: In a rather exuberant mood, "<votre nom>" <nes...@easynet.fr> writes
>: >I am a lawyer in a French compagny, and I would like to improve my
>: >english. I am going to have 6 months free.
>Bruce Tober wrote:
>: No lawyer has or does anything (for) free. if you're going to learn
>: english better, that's one of the first things you need to learn. "-}
>
>Somehow the original posting didn't make it into my system, but now that
>this whole thread has shown up, it surprises me that, despite all the
>nonsense answers, no one has bothered to give the fellow anything to go on.
I agree. I've only been here a few years and couldn't possibly answer
his/her query with any facts, but surely assumed someone would have done
by now.
>(and to answer the "smart" comment, I should think that having six months
>free, and choosing to spend that time studying English would certainly
>more than qualify as an investment for the future)
Oh, for hell's sake, it was a light-hearted remark. Get used to it.
Jim Balter
In article <h8H5gDAL...@crecon.demon.co.uk>,
T Bruce Tober <octob...@reporters.net> wrote:
>In a rather exuberant mood, Anthony <ant...@dircon.co.uk> writes
>>T Bruce Tober wrote:
>>
>>> No lawyer has or does anything (for) free. if you're going to learn
>>> english better, that's one of the first things you need to learn. "-}
>>
>>incomplete it does not justify such untrue generalisations.
>
>Obviously you missed the smiley at the end of the comment. Sorry to have
>offended, twas not my intent. As bobbie will no doubt point out, it's a
>cliché, but in all honesty, some of my best friends are and always have
>been, lawyers.
Given that we don't hear much about doctors or bankers doing pro bono work, it
seems a rather poor one.
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Alan H Jones
In article <jqbE3C...@netcom.com>, Jim Balter <j...@netcom.com> writes
As we are responding to a poster who wants to learn English, using the
expression 'pro bono' may confuse the issue, even for accomplished
English speakers!
I was horrified to see that somebody has just said, 'if you're going to
learn english better'. I hope he/she will now email the original poster
and explain why this is grammatically incorrect.
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A lawyer falls off his yacht into a shark infested lagoon, and yet
climbs back aboard unscathed.....
Reason -- professional courtesy.
And yet, this is merely a symptom of the lawyer conundrum. What
motivates those who stand for the status quo, and are romantically
involved with the past, to seek public office? Although most postings
for this thread are to UK Groups, this one was received in Toronto. In
my nearly three score years at this outpost of Albion's lost empire,
we've had only one Prime Minister who was not a lawyer.
Or, to look at it another way, the U.S. has 650,000 lawyers, Japan with
almost half
their population 40,000.
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Anthony (ant...@dircon.co.uk) wrote:
: T Bruce Tober wrote:
: > No lawyer has or does anything (for) free. if you're going to learn
: > english better, that's one of the first things you need to learn. "-}
: Some do. Just because your knowledge of lawyers appears limited and
: incomplete it does not justify such untrue generalisations.
Good post! My knowledge of lawyers also appeared to be "limited and
incomplete" because I did not realize that this was an untrue
generalization. I am better now.
NC
