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Helping Syrian refugee students learn English

Postby tommus » Fri Aug 12, 2016 8:24 pm

Interesting insight into how Syrian refugee immigrants are being helped to learn English right here in Kingston, Ontario.

http://www.thewhig.com/2016/08/03/helping-erase-language-barrier
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Postby zenmonkey » Mon Sep 19, 2016 7:48 am

thanks for sharing this!
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Postby heatherbergman » Tue Sep 27, 2016 11:18 am

This is interesting stuff thanks....
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Re: Helping Syrian refugee students learn English

Postby heatherbergman » Thu Feb 16, 2017 9:31 am

This is really Interesting insight. Canada has literally redrawn the blueprint for how a Western country can respond, in rapid time, to a refugee crisis halfway across the world. I am gonna read more on it after completing my david morrell first blood :D
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Re: Helping Syrian refugee students learn English

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Thu Feb 16, 2017 6:45 pm

tommus wrote:Interesting insight into how Syrian refugee immigrants are being helped to learn English right here in Kingston, Ontario.

http://www.thewhig.com/2016/08/03/helping-erase-language-barrier

FWIW, clicking on this link at 12:44 PM central time 2/16/17 produced a 500 error. The report page was in French.
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Re: Helping Syrian refugee students learn English

Postby tommus » Thu Feb 16, 2017 10:43 pm

MorkTheFiddle wrote:
tommus wrote:Interesting insight into how Syrian refugee immigrants are being helped to learn English right here in Kingston, Ontario.

http://www.thewhig.com/2016/08/03/helping-erase-language-barrier

FWIW, clicking on this link at 12:44 PM central time 2/16/17 produced a 500 error. The report page was in French.

I just clicked on it now (5:42 PM, 16 Feb) and it worked perfectly.
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Re: Helping Syrian refugee students learn English

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:23 pm

tommus wrote:
MorkTheFiddle wrote:
tommus wrote:Interesting insight into how Syrian refugee immigrants are being helped to learn English right here in Kingston, Ontario.

http://www.thewhig.com/2016/08/03/helping-erase-language-barrier

FWIW, clicking on this link at 12:44 PM central time 2/16/17 produced a 500 error. The report page was in French.

I just clicked on it now (5:42 PM, 16 Feb) and it worked perfectly.

It is working fine here, too, at 2:22 PM 2/17.
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