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[FistFace]

I know the filipino phone hagwon thing sort of ballooned this past year, and then burst. A lot of Koreans felt they weren't getting enough out of it, and it was trash-talked on the net, and possibly as some sort of scam in the news. According to my gf, the concept has taken a nosedive.

I can't see India making big headway, given what I've heard from her.

[ddeubel]

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[JMO]

Ah actually I said the women part...it was an attempt at humor. Stress the word attempt.

I really enjoy your site and your posts on the job related board have really helped me with my classroom skills. thanks

John

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[Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee]

Only a short time before Korean Universities give the internet teachers the title of "full time lecturer" and then pay them $700.00 US dollars a month.

[mindmetoo]

First, we're here to get kids used to the idea of speaking English in person to whitey and not take dumps in their pants. It's not the goal of parents to have their kids go to Bombay Tech and send home photos of them making friends with Indian people so the parents can put it on their cyworld page and impress the Kims next door.

Second, all this means is parents now have an additional expense and the kids have something to occupy whatever spare time they had at night. Morning hagwon + school + after school hagwon + night hagwon + ALL NEW Indian teacher online hagwon.

Third, it's barely work the 2-2.4 million a month to teach these kids. Indians are more than welcome to 'em for $200 a month.

[Geckoman]

Here is some interesting information from Wikipedia about the history of English as an official language of India.
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Hindi and English

The Indian constitution declares Hindi in Devanagari script to be the official language of the union.[5] Unless Parliament decided otherwise, the use of English for official purposes was to cease fifteen years after the constitution came into effect, i.e., on 26 January 1965.[6] The prospect of the changeover, however, led to much alarm in the non Hindi-speaking areas of India, as a result of which Parliament enacted the Official Languages Act, 1963, which provided for the continued use of English for official purposes along with Hindi, even after 1965. An attempt was made in late 1964 to expressly provide for an end to the use of English, but it was met with protests from across the country. Some of these protests also turned violent. Widespread protests occurred in states such as Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, Karnataka, Pondicherry and Andhra Pradesh. As a result of these protests, the proposal was dropped,[7][8] and the Act itself was amended in 1967 to provide that the use of English would not be ended until a resolution to that effect was passed by the legislature of every state that had not adopted Hindi as its official language, and by each house of the Indian Parliament.[9]

The current position is thus that the Union government may continue to use English in addition to Hindi for its official purposes[10] as a "subsidiary official language,"[11] but is also required to prepare and execute a programme to progressively increase its use of Hindi.[12] The exact extent to which, and the areas in which, the Union government uses Hindi and English, respectively, is determined by the provisions of the Constitution, the Official Languages Act, 1963, the Official Languages Rules, 1976, and statutory instruments made by the Department of Official Language under these laws.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_languages_of_India#Hindi_and_English