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BG> Yeah, don't I know it!  I can't even turn on the Kenwood
BG> without having some JA call me.  I usually end up talking
BG> with them anyway, and most of them involve themselves in
BG> ham radio for the sole purpose of improving their English.

Yeah, china is quite a bit like that too, tho button holing tourists
to chew their ear instead of using radio to improve their english.

BG> They tell me that English is a very difficult language
BG> for them to learn, and after listening to them butcher
BG> it for hours on end, I can believe that.

True.

BG> Or has that all changed fairly recently?

RS> The english in school was there before the cultural revolution
RS> at least as far as I know. In fact there was considerable study
RS> of books in english as part of that which caused considerable
RS> problem during the cultural revolution.

BG> Interesting.  I hadn't considered that aspect.  Must be more common
BG> than I thought, but I still don't believe it's anything like compulsory.

Well, it was anyway |-)

As far as I know they dont have the same choice approach on units to
take in school that we do now, its more like we used to have with not
that much choice at all.

--- PQWK202