Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / August 2004

"Languages divide people,
knowlegde joins them."

Knowledge Is Above Language Project – KIAL Project
or
Knowledge Joins People Project – KJP Project

Hi friends,

I have been thinking about a project to encourage the knowledge of
languages among individuals from different nations.

First, We need a group of people that be willing to collaborate with
this project. They should be able to read English text and translate
to their native languages. I mean:

-    We need many English persons to make a good course of English
language.
-    After, we need Spanish, French, Italian and so on persons.
-    Every person with non-native English speaking will translate that
course to their native languages; that will help people with the same
language to learn English; afterwards, they will make a English course
of their native language. That will help English speaking people to
learn others languages.

For example:

A snippet of the English course would be:

    The way to ask the time is: What time is it?

English course to Spanish people would be:

    La manera para preguntar la hora es: What time is it?

Spanish course to English people would be:

    The way to ask the time is: ¿Qué hora es?

We could do it with Italian, French and other languages too.

These courses will be free and placed in Internet.

I selected English language as main language because it is very known.

Are you willing to encourage the knowledge of different languages?

Ariel Medina (México)