My rote response is "well, what do you mean by 'speak'?" and I'm not even being sarky, just trying to scope out the question.

("It depends" is usually the answer, anyway)

They can progress from there but they will simply switch off if the course opens with people talking about formulas or worksheets or analysis or your business needs.

Most of them are still doing basic arithmetic.

I'm teaching English (ESOL), so I now have an extra layer of "did student write this themselves, or use a model sentence as a reference, or generate it?" to consider before I can give meaningful feedback.

Thanks!

Yeah, the only way you are getting a £2m house in a rough area is if you're building some kind of armed compound.

I mean, it absolutely does, but that's probably not relevant to the conversation at hand.

I can't see any benefit to learners of requiring a proprietary app or streaming. This is purely to help publishers at the cost of our convenience, flexibility, data, battery life, and offline (and legacy!) access.

Give me a fucking MP3 you bastards.

Immigration creates jobs, supports public services, & drives growth.

These are economic facts.

How is it that the only days we *dont* have the media banging on about immigration is on the days we’re handed the budget? #r4today

Our conversation about immigration is framed entirely on Nigel Farage’s terms.
Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate.

We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today

What if we slowly train them into liking the most embarrassing songs possible and then reveal the secret?

The cynical play here is to create a huge library of actual music, with a frontend that pretends to be a prompt entry box, and it just finds a song with vaguely similar tags. You use the subscription fees to pay the actual musicians.

Basically a reverse scam.