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Old 13-Nov-2005, 23:03
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Smile Teaching culture - is it important? why or why not? -your opinion

In my opinion, teaching culture is also as important as teaching English. The leaner should be supplied the knowledge of culture of the language they study. why?. Because for each sentence the native speakers speak, they are in a certain situation. So the learner will not understand why the foreigners say so and why it is completely different from their culture.
for example:
in English, if you make an unintended touch, you say sorry
but in Viet Name, people usually smile and say nothing
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