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    Converting the World to English
    Converting the World to English
    Converting the World to English
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    Converting the World to English

    By David Huttner

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    This book presents a program and much of the material needed to teach all the people of a city, country or the world English. It shows how anyone and everyone can go from raw beginner to advanced English student within two years. For large groups, a centrally located auditorium is preferable. Two, two-hour classes at the same time on Saturdays and Sundays should suffice. Classes should be supplemented with a website where the material can be freely downloaded. Classes should also be advertised in the local newspaper. The introduction explains that it is of paramount importance to convert the world to English so as to unite the world's peoples most quickly. The first year is devoted to flash card projections that follow a logical sequence. During the presentation of the images, the English words are also shown and the rules of accents, syllables and phonics introduced as they are applicable. The most simple sentences and complements are also introduced as appropriate. The first year should also be kept lively with cartoons, some of the best of which can be freely downloaded at Frederator.com. If students master 25 words per week, then after one year, they have a 1,300 word vocabulary and are ready to start the Syntax and Sentence Diagramming Lesson, which is included herein. After completion of it, students should be prepared similarly as an intelligent 4 or 5 year old that has grown up in an English-speaking country. The child and our student will no longer need a teacher and rarely need a dictionary because they can discern the meaning of words based on their syntactic context. At this point, students need only to practice the language (e.g. watch English movies, listen to English music, etc.).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Huttner
    Release dateNov 19, 2013
    ISBN9781311328144
    Converting the World to English
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    David Huttner

    I was born into a typically-dysfunctional American family that lived in a big, ugly American city. But I was born in 1949, in the early years of the Great American Celebration, when Americans were enjoying unprecedented prosperity. All the wishful thinkers attributed the prosperity to God's providence. (We were the only industrialized country lucky enough to have had two great oceans to protect us during WWII.) If their God did exist, then He had to be a sadist because those bigger houses and cars weren't making my dysfunctional family any happier. I already knew that the American Dream is a fraud and that we don't know half of what we need to know about ourselves and our ancestors when one of the periodic flights from the family problems took us to Indianapolis and landed me in Indianapolis Public School #80. Strange coincidences and a trauma of the previous spring (detailed in my memoir, "Heaven Sent") caused all of the students and most of the teachers to believe that I had been sent by God. To make a long story short, I managed -- mostly with mirrors and sleight of the hand -- to meet their wild expectations and grew to love these children that needed me therapeutically. But when the 8th grade school year was over, I wasn't allowed to go to their high school. As psychologists for the school system had anticipated, once removed from the scene where they had been traumatized, they needed to black out all memory of that scene and everyone connected with it, which included me. I realized that the whole world might be as crazy as it is due to shared traumas of our prehistoric past. I made it my goal to discover what those traumas were. It took me over 50 years. I had to major in comparative political-economic systems at college, study every social science discipline from every aspect, become part of a UN family, travel to 26 countries, live on three continents and drive a NYC taxi for many years, which kept me in touch with people from every country and walk of life -- but I did it. I figured out all the basics. I'm still not happy. Reading my books won't make you happy either. But they will inform you of what we have to do to make our world civilized and sustainable and guarantee love and happy marriages -- for all of us.

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      Converting the World to English - David Huttner

      CONVERTING THE WORLD

      TO ENGLISH

      Published by David Huttner at Smashwords.com

      © 2018 David Huttner

      Edition 3.1

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Please email your comments, questions and suggestions to me, David Huttner, at 1379157216@QQ.com.

      Other Works by David Huttner, Available at Smashwords.com Include:

      Decoding the Deluge and finding the path for

      civilization (in three volumes)

      Irish Mythology passageway to prehistory

      Stage II of the Nonviolent Rainbow Revolution

      The First Christmas (a short play)

      Making the Subjective and Objective Worlds One

      Just Say No to Latent Homosexual Crusades

      Social Harmony as Measured by Music (a lecture)

      Selected Works of David Huttner, Volumes 1 and 2

      Heaven Sent

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Other Works by David Huttner

      Introduction

      The Rules of Phonics, Syllables and Accents

      The Flash Card Presentation Sequence

      The Grammar

      The Syntax and Sentence Diagramming Outline

      Practice Sentences to Diagram

      INTRODUCTION

      I taught English as a second language in China for more than ten years. In my view, there is a tremendous need to replace all of the other languages with English as part of the process of uniting humanity into one virtual and loving family. Although the Communist Party failed in this noble endeavor, the Peace Love and Progress Party has learned from its (Karl Marx's) mistakes and expects to succeed where the Communist Party failed. See my other books for the comprehensive, new social science.

      I believe, furthermore, that at the present stage of our historical development, with highly developed, global, mass communications and the new social science, other languages only serve negative purposes. They promote nationalism, separatism, prejudice and espionage.

      If everyone knew English at even an intermediate level, global communication would accelerate. The Five Eyes Agreement (between the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to share intelligence) would soon lose its reason for existence. It would be easier to implement the other changes needed to civilize, integrate and unite humanity; and the world would quickly forget the other, more difficult languages. 

      English evolved as the trade and port language of three western, maritime empires: the American, the British and the Trojan. See Appendix F of Volume 3 of Decoding the Deluge and Finding the Path for Civilization for more on Troy. If there is anything positive to be said for imperialism, it is this: it gave us the most modern, simple and easy to learn language, a language whose syntax (logic) maximizes the use of word order.

      Pursuant to these beliefs and this philosophy, I have developed the plan –contained herein -- for teaching English to any number of beginners and making intermediate-level, English learners of them within one and one half or two years.

      The in-person classes should be two hours on Saturday with a repeat of the same on Sunday, held in major auditoriums and advertised in the local newspapers and on TV. The cover charge should be minimal, just enough to cover the cleaning up and a modest income for the instructor. A website could enable everyone to download or browse the content of the course.

      Here is the basic program. Teach with flash graphics projected

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