Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Beattie’s Blog in Spanish

Any Spanish-speaking readers of Beattie’s Blog may be interested in this Spanish translation of a recent blog contribution by Auckland author and publisher, Gordon Dryden—on the story of Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma:

http://www.educadoresdigitales.org/2010/02/libro-de-negocios-favorito-de-un-autor.html


Jack Ma is China’s English-language expert who turned his expertise into alibaba.com, the world’s biggest e-commerce site whose mission is to sell the products of 32 million small Chinese manufacturers to the world—in English.

One of the English-learning techniques he copied was “Crazy English”, which Gordon Dryden, in his blog piece, described as a cross between karaoke, revivalist religion and American self-development guru Tony Robbins.

The Spanish translation — by one of Dryden’s Mexican educational associates, Mariana Cortes, includes a video clip of Chinese students learning “Crazy English”..

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