40 years of teaching English as a foreign language, mainly in Valencia, has been the challenge faced by Bachelor of Education Bob Yareham (Hackney North 1954), as he explains for what seems like the millionth time that “yes, ‘bare’ is pronounced like ‘bear’, ‘time’ like ‘thyme’ and ‘queue’ is no different from ‘q’. Too, two and to are the same too my friend, and ‘if I were’ is not really the simple past, it’s the subjunctive, which inconveniently doesn’t actually exist in English. A double negative is positive for the 30,000th time, and I don’t care if Sir Mick Jagger … Continue reading English Actually: 40 Years in the Wilderness