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Chinese (and other) pilots unable to speak English pose danger for air travel (CNN)
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:38:38 +0200, Martin wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:50:14 -0700, "d.g.s." wrote: On 7/12/2007 10:29 AM William Black jumped down, turned around, and wrote: What the hell is a TOEIC? Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) measures the ability of non-native English-speaking examinees to use English in everyday work activities. How many native Brits & Americans could pass such a test? And how do you decide who is a native English speaker? DaveM |
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Chinese (and other) pilots unable to speak English pose danger for air travel (CNN)
d.g.s. wrote:
On 7/21/2007 4:38 AM Martin jumped down, turned around, and wrote: How many native Brits & Americans could pass such a test? Heh. Good question, but buggered if I know. The sample questions I've seen would indicate it's not terribly difficult, but there are plenty of native Brits, Yanks, and Canucks who are terrible at taking tests, even easy ones in their supposed native language. And some of them don't reed two gud. -- ant Don't try to reply to my email addy: I'm borrowing that of the latest scammer/spammer |
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