Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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it’s English—her English is better than mine, and, uh, so. 
And I do all the science projects, all-all-all that projects 
so I have study myself and understand and then make 
him understand. I-I don’t think that I ever did so, but I 
called my brother whose son is also in the, daughter is in 
the same age and, uh, he tells me that they don’t have all 
that. Either he’s not paying attention, or, uh, they don’t 
have that, so I think American, uh, education system 
emph—, there’s a lot of emphasis on if they try to make 
you a good salesperson. I think it’s all about marketing, 
about sales so they, whatever they-they, I mean, he has to 
do lot of presentations in school, so all that public speak-
ing, uh, it’s easy for him. And, uh, of course, yeah, there’s 
lot of emphasis on the vocabulary, there’s a lot of empha-
sis on the spellings, which we never had. I still have 
bad 
spellings
, so.
But, I’m very happy with America’s education system, 
but what I hear from my sister-in-law is, when they go 
into the high school, then I have to be little more vigi-
lant. You can’t say anything, but you just have to lead him 
by the example. So far, touch with my son is pretty good. 
He’s a very good human being, I mean, uh, he really is—
there’s a lot of respect for-for people, I hope he continues 
to be with the same American education system.
INTERVIEWER:
Did you, was your system basically a British 
system, with forms and . . . ?
MAN:
Yes, a lot of, we are basically, all-all Indian systems 
are British systems. We never had any system unless they 
came and made some, so, uh. Most, it’s like there’re a lot 
of forms, as you said. Th
ere’re a lot, ev—, for everything, 
you have to get permission, uh, so, it’s-it’s pretty good. 
Th
ere’s a lot of, emphasis in India is on memory, that you 
have to memorize a lot of stuff so, which is good. I mean, 
in my time, I never had to use calculator. I started using 
calculator when I went into job and I never had to use 

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