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www.isreview.org/issues/54/venezuela.shtml
COMMENTS: Here is an extensive report on Venezuela, written by Lee Sustar. It informs us that the highest minimum wage in Latin Amereica is US$286.00 (two hundred and eighty-six dollars per month), in Venezuela. There are many links in this report which shows where the research for this report were gathered. Most of this information is not posted nor
This is an introduction of a new programme for intermediate and advanced students of the English language, who are preparing for their TOEFL, Michigan or Cambridge exams. The most important part of the exams for foreign students are the 'listening comprehension' and tests in 'fluency in spoken English'..... which are integrated in the exams.
I have chosen a system where students
Lingua Franca Macaensi 2007
By Armando Rozario
Lingua Franca Macaensi BY Armando Rozário From this week onwards, I
will post regularly comments under this title, what do these words
represent in English? LINGUA FRANCA: ...a language used for
communicating between the people of an area in which several languages
are spoken: ENGLISH is becoming the the lingua franca of the
professionals in the
This
is the second contribution of mine which is posted under the 'Macaensi'
title. I have promised to explain why I have chosen 'macaensi' and not
'macaense'. The Jesuits started printing books in the old Portuguese
colony of Macau in the 1580s....about 450 years ago. Where did the word
Macau derive from? According to some writers, it was named after a
Chinese godess
UNIVERSITY
CERTIFICATES. I am hereby presenting two proficiency in English
certificates which were awarded in São Paulo , Brazil , in 1978. I will
give a short account of how I took the exams in Hong Kong in 1947 and
1948 and in São Paulo in 1977. I taught English at a privated Business
English school in São Paulo in 1976, the director of the course asked
me to show my credentials. I
A-MA TEMPLE (Barra Point) - Macau
Macau
's name is derived from A-Ma-Gau or Place of A-Ma and this
templededicated to the seafarer's goddess dates from the early 16th.
century. According to legend, A-Ma a poor girl looking for passage to
Canton, was refused by the wealthy junk owners but a lowly fisherman
took her on board. A storm blew up and wrecked all but the boat
carrying the
