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Essential English
Few articles are as simultaneously infuriating and mollifying as this recent article from Xinhuanet.com. It centers around a forum at china.com where 98% of the readers called for lower years English lessons to be dropped. Two reasons for this attitude are shown below:
‘It is very ironic parents and students spend so much time and money learning something they don’t use’
‘My daughter has mixed English with Chinese pinyin, which is pathetic’
