You have been learning a foreign language for some time, then you meet a native speaker of the language in question and realise that you still have difficulties understanding them and making yourself understood. This is the feeling and experience that George Mikes shares with us in this excerpt in a humorous way. PODCAST ON NOT KNOWING ENGLISH. Cover illustration of How to be a Brit is by Nicolas Bentley.

An opportunity to create pedagogical material that reaches outside the traditional framework of classroom education. Take a look at our Frappr map to see where everyone comes from! Thursday, January 25, 2007. About the peculiar umlaut that has become so popular with heavy metal bands is an excellent demonstration of how wiki entries are modified by different users. Saturday, November 11, 2006.

Thursday, February 02, 2006. December 2005 has turned to be a record-setting month regarding the amount of snow per month. People in Akita were all very amazed how much snow we had in the month! I was one of those who experienced that much of snow for the first time in my life. Well, it is simply because the technology then was not as developed as now.