I've been following what are now called social networks right from the start. As an English as a foreign language teacher, I soon realized that they could be one way of solving one of the essential problems of learning a foreign language, namely communicating with real live speakers (and writers) who use the language as it is used daily, not as textbooks and professional teachers water it down to help learners learn it, or even as newspapers or news broadcasts transform it to suit their needs.…
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