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You are misinformed. Monash may have a high proportion of foreign students, but it does not amount to 100%. ALSO, if those foreign students are from Singapore, their command of English grammar may be better than yours even if they can't speak English with an Aussie accent.

That's dumb ! My BRITISH trained teacher said " NEVER start a sentence with an AND or end a sentence with a preposition" . You also NEVER start a sentence with a lower case. Phrases ( as in my case) are fine. I'm not going to let a 2nd rate English speaking nation tell me what's right or...

No , the survey points to LOCAL Aussies as well! " ......MONASH University will teach its first-year students grammar and punctuation after discovering that most arrive without basic English skills. " Unless you are saying 100% of first year students are foreigners.

Well Said !! Did you hear that " Mr. Wrong Turn " ? We must not let entropy dominate.

If one cannot impress with intelligence , try dazzling with stubborness ?

Obviously from a survey conducted at Monash. For details , please contact Monash.

Sigh, WRONG TURN is trying so hard to prove his ( an Asian) English is even worse ! His sentence should be: This thread fails. Missing uppercase T and period .

You're a good example of an Asian with poor English skills. YOU reinforce an already prejudiced stereotype. " Small taunts on the chin ?" What kind of English is that ? "Dont "? You mean Don't starting a sentence with lowercase as in " and your post ...." ? Were you not paying...

Is 'strine ' English any better than the bloody foreigner's? MONASH University : ... 90 per cent of first-year students could not identify a noun ... only 20 per cent of English teachers understand basic grammar ... 500 students in communication were strangers to English grammar ...no idea...

Depends on what you want to study. If you want to pursue a degree like Medicine, Law, Accounting, Computer Science , etc then I think degrre is better. But if you wanted to study English, History, Fine Arts, Biology, Astronomy...then do your dad's business...as you'd be making more money

Recently there has been some ( justified) criticism of the standard of spoken English by foreign students, but have a look at the actual condition of local ' strine" English ! MONASH University : ...90 per cent of his first-year students could not identify a noun ...only 20 per cent of...

Wait, are you saying Australia's economic survival currently depends on the ' most shit government" of the world? In that case you should organise a boycott ! Dont sell China our Iron, Coal, Uranium , Beef etc Dont buy their...ummm, lemme think "everthing " ? Where are your morals?

So basically you made a claim without any proof. Ah yeah that's call prejudice.

It's scary ...your powers of logic & argument , inference and deduction. Are you sure Forensics suits you ? Next thing we know you'lll be telling black parents that their black goat is indeed their child because you read it in some Govt report.

So you ARE Vacuous ?

sigh. You cant even INFER. If I liked dick cheese , I would have kept it.

No I don't have dick cheese. Next time try a condom , that way you don't have to floss it from your teeth!

Everyone ? really show me the proof

Memory loss..Advanced stage of brain degeneration I thought we discussed this already and you said you didn't think I was Asian regardless of my penis size Hey, try microwaving your head...it might kill off the yeast !!