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To: TobagoJack who wrote (24776)	10/30/2002 9:32:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Hmmmm. Hong Kong must have a LOT of people fluent in English. Maybe that's a big cash flow source to replace the old stuff which has gone. Get young people to enjoy some freedom from their home base, go to Hong Kong to learn English and have some fun. Come to think of it, that's what's going on here. We have hordes of Chinese here for learning English. Maybe it's cheaper here, even with the airfares. You've seen how cheap accommodation is here. Immersion in a language is always easier than learning it at home. There isn't much immersion in Hong Kong. Our children went to Antwerp International School in Belgium and loved it. Maybe there's scope for a chain of such International Schools across China. Everything done in American/English. Of course the local children would speak Chinese to their buddies. Tarken-san was going to do a Chinese equivalent to eigokyoshitsu.com but has given up. With cdma2000 1xRTT coming up, it might have been a good thing to do in a couple of years. GlobalEnglish seems to have got the online stuff tied up. They've improved dramatically in a couple of years. Mqurice