[00:03.36]erm and the second thing would be that now
[00:06.78]that English is spoken as an international
[00:08.61]language nobody owns it any more.
[00:11.16]The native speakers of English don't own it
[00:13.79]and so don't have the right to expect everybody
[00:16.77]else around the world,
[00:17.88]when they speak English,
[00:19.08]to conform to "native-speaker" ways of speaking
[00:22.49]that everybody has the right to develop their
[00:24.83]own ways fo speaking English.
[00:27.18]So, what would you say are the advantages for
[00:29.12]students and teachers of this form of English?
[00:31.93]Well, one advantage would be that they actually
[00:34.99]have rather less to do,
[00:36.31]rather less to learn because instead of trying
[00:38.64]to learn the entire,
[00:40.81]erm, way of speaking of a native speaker,
[00:43.82]which is incredibly complicated and most
[00:46.32]learners never do achieve this in any case,
[00:50.48]so they've got less to do,
[00:52.04]but they're also allowed to,erm,
[00:54.79]keep something of themselves in their English.
[00:57.14]They're speaking English as say Japanese
[00:59.62]speaker of English or, erm,an Arabic speaker of
[01:03.12]English, a Spanish speaker of English,
[01:05.15]erm and therefore,
[01:06.17]they are allowed to be themselves in English.
[01:09.76]Right, and how do you see English being learnt
[01:12.66]and spoken in,say,30 years' time?
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