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    Students at the Fourah Bay College in Freetown Sierra Leone, say they want to learn English - Standard English! However, they want their teaher to teach them standard English, using Patois! They say that their teacher's english sounds too British. Because of this, some of the students do not listen too keenly to the standard english they hear from their teacher. Needless to say, they do not practice the standard english they could be learning! Even worse, they refuse to open and read standard en

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    Colleen

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    So, what is their idea of standard English? Africa English? If so, tell them that other English speakers can understand British English easier than African English. The accent is too think with African English in my opinion. I live in the USA.

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    If they don't LISTEN they will NEVER learn.



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