Get a first life

How could I not add this here. A little cartoon poking fun at all of us getting lost in Second Life.

A New Learning Day

Wonderful. Welcome the hagwan experience to America.

A "hogwan" in a private institute in Korea. There are hogwans for just about everything you can think of including, language, math, science, and other academic programs. There are also more hobby-centric hogwans for things such as cooking and art.

The academic hogwans take up the slack for the public schools. With the all-important college entrance exam in their sights, Korean students (and parents) put in long hours at these institutes. While the necessity isn't contested very much, Koreas still truly resent the necessity.

Now I guess it's our turn in the states. It's not that a question the necessity, it's that I resent the necessity :(

Dan

'World English' Remains Theoretical - Forbes.com

This article confounds "World English" with "World Englishes". Non-the-less, it is interesting that the mass media has picked up on this issue.

The distinction here is that World English, in this article, refers to some kind of standard that will emerge. Though they also seem to mix in other issues of comprehensibility, dialect, and locality.

World Englishes, is the study of different Englishes around the world. For example, a study of native speakers of English (and even NNES) in countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, India.....