Japan Urged to Keep JET Program(me)

Well, some people find JET useful still. Personally I disagree though.

Quote:

---

The U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange, which is known as CULCON, said in a joint statement issued after its two-day gathering in Washington that investment should be made in education for the Japan-U.S. alliance in the future. "The investment should range from improving English language education in Japan to stimulating interest in each other's country...sustaining the JET program and fostering public intellectuals through graduate and post-doctoral studies," the statement said.

---

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

good i may need jet as a back up in 3years!

waste of time and money

They need to fire every English teacher who can't speak English and stop using books written by those English teachers who can't speak English.

One of my husband's co-workers was published in a book. She came up to my husband one day and asked him 'Is this sentence correct?' (a sample from a text book) and he said 'No.' He explained why, then told her 'Whoever wrote that doesn't know English very well' (or something to that extent) and she said 'Oh, I wrote.'

*face palm*

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Meatball

waste of time and money

---

Amen.

I was trying to explain to my teacher that I have no fucking clue what 'I have ever been to England' means, and she once she explained she was shocked to realise that she couldn't use 'I have ever been' as the opposite of 'I have never been'. I told her you only use 'ever' in questions (Have you ever been...?) and she said that I have ever been was in their textbooks.

I HAVE EVER BEEN!

OMG.

TELL HER THOSE BOOKS ARE WRITTEN BY PEOPLE LIKE HER ... PEOPLE WHO DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH.

I've corrected her multiple times because I seriously have idea if she means she has or hasn't some times, but she does it a lot (as do some other). What's worse is that she teaches it too. I get the impression that she thinks I'm wrong when I say you can't use it in that way, because it's in the tex tbook after all. When she told me the students learn it in their text books I think she expected me to back down and tell her I must have it wrong (with a more obscure English point I would probably would think it was me getting it wrong), but in this case I'm 100% sure the books are teaching gibberish.