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 Friday April 21 2006

I speak no English

update
added another funnier video in the extended entry

While surfing I came across A Geek in Korea and specifically a comment on this entry which led me to search YouTube for this clip. Hope you enjoy it.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Friday Apr 21, 2006 at 06:08 AM
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Graham Stanley wrote 60 words  on  Friday Apr 21, 2006  at  06:30 AM Spain

Hilarious! I’ve actually seen another sketch that uses the same premise for the joke - I think it was taken from the Fast show, a BBC series and involved two men chatting to a woman on a bicycle.

On another point, I didn’t realise that this kind of thing was legal to upload to YouTube, but I guess it is.

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Graham Stanley wrote 28 words  on  Friday Apr 21, 2006  at  04:30 PM Spain

I’ve just added this to the new wiki I’ve started up to collect lesson plans / ideas for website use in class : Website of the Week wiki

Sean.

Sean. wrote 92 words  on  Friday Apr 21, 2006  at  04:49 PM Korea (South)

Graham,
It’s interesting that you are starting a wiki for EFL/ESL teaching materials as I am planning one myself. I’m just waiting for the latest version of Expression Engine to be released, sometime this month theoretically, which will include an integrated wiki module. This way readers of my site will have one login for commenting, using the forums (which no one does), and the wiki.

If you would like to chat about a possible collaboration please let me know and I’ll send you my skype id as well as my MSN id.

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Graham Stanley wrote 100 words  on  Friday Apr 21, 2006  at  04:56 PM Spain

That sounds great ESL geek - I just started one up recently at pbwiki as an experiment, and because part of my job as ICT co-ordinator means that I regularly send an email outr to teachers where I work about websites they can use, with ideas of how to use them - these were just getting lost, so I decided to set up a wiki to collect them.

I’d be happy to work with you on something more ambitious - let’s skype each other, as you suggest, and see what we can come up with. Here’s my skype ID: bonavista99

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Jamie Hall wrote 11 words  on  Friday Apr 21, 2006  at  05:42 PM Japan

Very good and maybe something that could be used in class.

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gordsellar wrote 44 words  on  Saturday Apr 22, 2006  at  03:57 PM Korea (South)

Yes, I’m vaguely thinking of showing it to my public speaking courses from now on, early in the term, just to drive home how useless it is to memorize a speech. If I had conversation courses, I’d be showing it on the first day.

Sean.

Sean. wrote 29 words  on  Saturday Apr 22, 2006  at  05:04 PM Korea (South)

Gord I found a downloadable copy. If you want that let me know and I’ll send it to you - good just in case this gets pulled from youtube.

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gordsellar wrote 9 words  on  Saturday Apr 22, 2006  at  05:34 PM Korea (South)

Yes please, what’s the url on the downloadable copy?

Sean.

Sean. wrote 13 words  on  Monday Apr 24, 2006  at  04:00 PM Korea (South)

just added another video to this entry - I think it’s even funnier.

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Lesley wrote 16 words  on  Monday Apr 24, 2006  at  04:35 PM France

Didn’t understand a word of either of those videos. Could you provide a translation into English?

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gordsellar wrote 17 words  on  Tuesday Apr 25, 2006  at  12:15 AM Korea (South)

Damn. I can’t figure what the last commenter wrote. It’s in English, and I can’t read English.

Sean.

Sean. wrote 16 words  on  Tuesday Apr 25, 2006  at  06:02 AM Korea (South)

Damn you all - stop writing English, I’m getting a headache because I don’t understand it.

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