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American ESL teachers are in limbo after shift in China's tutoring policy

by Jennifer Pak
Oct 12, 2021
Teachers at one company that's still in business are dealing with financial uncertainty and the thought of lost connections with children.
ESL teacher Kristen Peele during a VIPKid lesson with a student in China. She depends on the income to support her three children.
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If Great Britain goes, so could the English language

by Sally Herships
Jun 29, 2016
The head of the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee is now warning that English as an official language could be eliminated with Brexit.
Shakespeare's First Folio, a collection of some of his plays dating from 1623.
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