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                    [ArticleID] => 282300
                    [Title] => English
                    [Summary] => Many English teachers, here in the Philippines, are distressed because they feel that the quality of our English is deteriorating.


It is true.

The quality of our English, now, in our schools, is much lower than it was two generations ago.

But if you compare the quality of our English with the quality of English in other places, we are really not so bad.

Here are some examples.

Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop:

Ladies may have a fit upstairs.


In Bangkok dry cleaners:
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133565 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1323138 [AuthorName] => Fr. James Reuter, SJ [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
BANGKOK TEMPLE
Array
(
    [results] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 282300
                    [Title] => English
                    [Summary] => Many English teachers, here in the Philippines, are distressed because they feel that the quality of our English is deteriorating.


It is true.

The quality of our English, now, in our schools, is much lower than it was two generations ago.

But if you compare the quality of our English with the quality of English in other places, we are really not so bad.

Here are some examples.

Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop:

Ladies may have a fit upstairs.


In Bangkok dry cleaners:
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133565 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1323138 [AuthorName] => Fr. James Reuter, SJ [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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