Fascinating...I am required to take an all important English test next month. Don't ask me why, it has something to do with my not being a 'native English speaker'. Well, I am a native :-p lol, some would say...and I do speak something... but I am definitely not English. These are the times you wish the Queen would get a bit distracted from her grandson's wedding and wave her sceptre over my head pronouncing me English for a month. Wishes.... This takes me back to learning English back in the day. First by rote. I remember the teacher saying endlessly, 'Class, what is this?' and our response was, 'ZAAAAT IS A TROPHY!!' 'Again, class! What is this?' 'ZAAAAT IS A TROPHY!!' I remember graduating to Timve and Tsala at around age 8 after barely managing Reading for Some Purpose and Peter and Jane . Timve's Big Shoe anyone? What about learning through song on the then only authorised radio station, Radio MBC? 'Good morni
Resisting the stereotypes.