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Armando Rozario
   

www.isreview.org/issues/54/venezuela.shtml COMMENTS: Here is an extensive report on Venezuela, written by Lee Sustar. It informs us that the highest minimum wage in Latin Amereica is US$286.00 (two hundred and eighty-six dollars per month), in Venezuela. There are many links in this report which shows where the research for this report were gathered. Most of this information is not posted nor

This is an introduction of a new programme for intermediate and advanced students of the English language, who are preparing for their TOEFL, Michigan or Cambridge exams. The most important part of the exams for foreign students are the 'listening comprehension' and tests in 'fluency in spoken English'..... which are integrated in the exams. I have chosen a system where students

Lingua Franca Macaensi 2007 By Armando Rozario Lingua Franca Macaensi BY Armando Rozário From this week onwards, I will post regularly comments under this title, what do these words represent in English? LINGUA FRANCA: ...a language used for communicating between the people of an area in which several languages are spoken: ENGLISH is becoming the the lingua franca of the professionals in the

This is the second contribution of mine which is posted under the 'Macaensi' title. I have promised to explain why I have chosen 'macaensi' and not 'macaense'. The Jesuits started printing books in the old Portuguese colony of Macau in the 1580s....about 450 years ago. Where did the word Macau derive from? According to some writers, it was named after a Chinese godess

UNIVERSITY CERTIFICATES. I am hereby presenting two proficiency in English certificates which were awarded in São Paulo , Brazil , in 1978. I will give a short account of how I took the exams in Hong Kong in 1947 and 1948 and in São Paulo in 1977. I taught English at a privated Business English school in São Paulo in 1976, the director of the course asked me to show my credentials. I

A-MA TEMPLE (Barra Point) - Macau  Macau 's name is derived from A-Ma-Gau or Place of A-Ma and this templededicated to the seafarer's goddess dates from the early 16th. century. According to legend, A-Ma a poor girl looking for passage to Canton, was refused by the wealthy junk owners but a lowly fisherman took her on board. A storm blew up and wrecked all but the boat carrying the
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