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Bad English at the Centro Colombo Bucamaranga

Have a look here:

http://www.colombobucaramanga.edu.co/Eng/cursos.html

Even I, a non-native English speaker, very easily found lots of error in this webpage. I especially liked the following abstract:

"PROEFICIENCY IN ENGLISH LANGUAJE CERTIFICATE"

They offer a course which apparently leads to proficiency in the English language and can't even write neither proficiency nor language correctly.

Bjorn (Norwegian, certified math and science teacher looking for a job in Colombia, now also as an aspiring English teacher :-)

By bjorn on Feb 24, 2006, 10:58 in Friendly Talkzone.

mrgizmo says on Feb 24, 2006, 11:46:

Those were not the only errors they also mispelled: approved (they wrote aproved), commercial (they wrote comercial), effective (they wrote efective), additional (they wrote aditional), please (they wrote plese).

Behind every successful man, there's a nagging woman

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Tinto (Moderator) says on Feb 24, 2006, 11:51:

And "dayly" and "vacational" and probably a bunch of others.

Wear kan eye sine upp foar sum klases?

I thought this group was fairly large and respectable with outlets in a number of Colombian cities???

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kat1 (Moderator) says on Feb 24, 2006, 12:43:

This is just not in colombia, if you go to Spain, some of the translation in restaurant menu or warnings on the beach are so funny.

engage brain before opening mouth

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miamimike says on Feb 24, 2006, 20:49:

True Kat 1.. but are those places you mentioned offering Langauge instruction? English should have been preceeded and modified by "the".

"Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? That's interesting. I hadn't heard that." -- Feb. 28, 2008 --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C.

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