Thanks Biggie. You're right of course. We haven't had a lot of opportunity to talk in the last couple weeks. She has been away for a week helping a friend. She's been very busy - work and English classes. And you're right, it's all just excuses. If something's important, you make the time. I hope to catch her when she wakes up before work. I guess what I didn't write was that I need to see her so we can decide if this relationship is worth continuing. I'd rather do that face to face than through bad translations on QQ or MSN.
Neil
My Daughter is a teacher here and she specialises in teaching English to the little kids who come here from every country you can posibly imagine...most of them without a single word of English.
Several evenings each week, she has classes for the parents of these kids to also help them learn English to better help their assimilation here in Aus.
Before these folk migrated here, many, many of them spent years having English lessons and got really frustrated because all these lessons seemed to be useless when they actually got to speak their "learned" English in an English speaking environment.
They got to realise that whatever they had learned over this time was not nearly enough...and it wasnt the right stuff anyway for their normal life....very depressing and frustrating for them.
But the good news is, according to my Daughter, that as soon as these migrants are actually into a total immersion regime in their new country, colloquial English comes very quickly.
So if you can tell your Lady that what she learns now is useful, but when she actually gets there, it will all be so much easier...and success will come very quickly...and dont worry too much about it
David