speak English. Better speak, I write, the better to write, I read and hear. At least that stated on the certificate of the last test that I paid. That is a constant among those who have learned "Language" in academia rather than in practice. People who make English the need to use it daily, often speak very well, but falter in writing. On the contrary, I have not had many opportunities to make oral use of my learning: a journey, a tourist, a foreign correspondent. Also, I published a paper in English in a scientific journal and I read every day by so called "papers" that no worker of science and technology can evade. Little more: if I had to account for revenues derived from each mango and every minute spent on schools, the benefits would disapponting Rather, say something. I think my case is repeated in a lot of people in Argentina. However, in these times, learning English has an unjustified overvalued compared to other areas of learning, and I can not explain it any other way than thinking there is some correlation of domination and penetration cultural. I still have
autobiography. I have deep potholes in my training in mathematics. Not to mention the statistics. Bache not tremendous potholes more than once I have brought great complications in my work. In other areas, I had to leave to self-manage my learning in large fields: history, geography, grammar (the poor results are visible.) Not so with English, which I intended bitter and tedious hours since childhood. Moreover, I have seen colleagues who, with far less command of English than I do, achieve results virtually identical to mine. I have received, occasionally, stuck peer consultations by the vocabulary of a publication or urged to make use of language in any circumstances on time, but have not been more than the times I've had to ask for help to analyze data. I mean, I should have spent more time learning mathematics and statistics and a little less English. Mathematics is a language that I understand more brutally. I dare to disappoint many mothers resting quietly while their children learn English in days of Monday through Friday, full afternoon in private schools: it is very likely that their children are wasting their time hopelessly, better could use a little math, something more than history and geography, salutary bath chemistry and biology, and less English. **********************************************
************************************** I know the preceding paragraph may sound like sacrilege for many:-English, English to learn English! - mothers desperately shouting at the addresses of polling packets. - Look, we know all the colors, "he says another" Show them to the Lord, Show them, and the kid starts with ielou, blu, grin, network. The mother looks at me and hoping that I admired the truck crash stunned by the lush array of vocabulary colorinche the kid driving. - Pelotudeces "snapped" Let me tell you when was the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado. I say it in English, if you want. Right there, I turned around, but not before the child stare and say, in a firm voice fuck you, asshole.
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Cristina's speech last Saturday, San Pedro, was interesting. Spite of them some, sometimes the mare hits the mark: - call upon our fellow citizens to a new quest: to strip our heads cultural chains that for years have gotten us - was dispatched, harvesting less impact than the famous tuit "pirates fore see." I applaud the speech, but you know I applaud almost everything he says the mare. But there is something interesting about this: cultural channels - beyond the play on words by the chains in the Paraná-cross is a figure of interesting discourse. Because I think some ties from going further and questioning ciertas normas naturalizadas que no tienen nada de casuales ni de naturales ¿Por qué es tan importante, imprescindible, honroso, dignificante, maravilloso, hablar inglés? La tan mentada aseveración acerca de que se trataría del idioma universal, puntea cómoda entre las argumentaciones. Para no estar aislado del mundo, il faut spikinglish . Sucede que el inglés es una suerte de esperanto consumado. Si el esperanto fue la lengua planificada, elaborada minuciosamente, que llegaría horizontal y democráticamente a imponerse como lengua global, el inglés es el paradigma de lo no planificado, de lo caótico y lo impuesto. Esa lengua que hablaban los bárbaros insulares y que modificaron y convirtieron language "write" the Romans, by force of sword and command, had no planning or even in their origin. So have a phonetic so random. If Esperanto is planned, ergo, it defeated in this century, English is a symbol of liberal, if not chosen under a necessity born of the asymmetries and the rhythms of the history of capitalism. If Esperanto was the utopia of a universal language and equalizing, unifying, English is a language that makes a difference, and points to the inequality divide: is the dominant language. Speaking English in the sixteenth century could be an act of barbarism and not to an Englishman. Consummate the industrial revolution and imperial rule the world by Great Britain, established the dominant role delegation in the United States in the twentieth century, knowledge of English has in this land of comparable importance to what may have been for the native Americans learn sooner rather than later language the dominant Castilian overseas. I'm not so interested in discussing the importance you may have, what may be discussed is how the celebration is done.
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British Policy in the Rio de la Plata, Raul Scalabrini Ortiz. Here's a book that could be read with great advantage the little children who spend their time learning English in schools. Of course, not without first learning seven or eight colors and animal names in English, the past participle and some other trinket but obviously necessary - in light of the facts, easier to disentangling the history of two hundred years of domination direct or indirect, British or Yankee, Latin America. Why not, some of José María Rosa, Jauretche or history of Felipe Varela Ortega Peña and Eduardo Luis Duhalde. I know spending chimangos gunpowder, but no less futile my attempt to that of mothers who send their children to study English in order to become men of profit and capacity. English does not it. However, in our country must have almost as many branches of the British Cultural Association, scattered throughout, as branches of National Bank. They should not go wrong.
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cultural domination. Or cultural penetration (which amounts to almost the same, "he points to a comrade Troska- this phallocentric society where it penetrates, dominates). That wished to speak until one day, in an English school, a teacher showed up dressed as witches celebrating (?) Halloween ( from now on : Jalogüin), that was for me just a holiday that commemorated only in the cartoons, like the Thanksgiving Day or the 4th of July. One day, I came to breakfast that could celebrate, the shouting of Trick or Treat . Since that day, I saw also imposed the celebration of St. Patrick or the bullshit magna Valentine's Day. Therefore, it remains an interesting act of sovereignty recover cultural carnival celebration as genuinely popular. Because of all ways, people are going to suck out and, says a friend, trying to get up mine, at any time and for whatever reason. Better be a national excuse.
But I still go to the seed of the matter: the accomplished fact that English is almost an inevitable educational need, has deep roots in the history of our country in relation to Britain and the United States. History is not entirely happy, tell me. The recent celebration of Day of sovereignty in San Pedro had some of that: remember the Anglo-French arrogance and heroic determination of a few natives attempt to avoid invasive (first with ships and guns, then with goods) of Victorian England. In terms of history in broad strokes, that matters more than policy ambiguous Rosas in relation to the provinces or porteñocéntrico federalism, which ultimately earned him the defeat of Caseros. **********************************************
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final and totally expendable, raise your hand those who studied English since childhood. And raise your hand which, in those courses, read "Animal Farm (Animal Farm)" by George Orwell. Even the guys who do not ever again engage in reading, read Animal Farm, in general, in English Is it coincidence that, of the extensive and rich British literature, English teachers choose this minor work? "Just this project, which satirizes and demonize socialism and that celebrates and recognizes as a social system" more healthy and honest "liberal capitalism British stamp? It is not conspiratorial or mad to imagine that the choice of play is nothing casual or haphazard. A system of domination does not stitch without thread.
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