Don talks about English language and translation (0:52)

I had a problem with the – the bloke here, I won’t mention his name.  He’s a – I was talking to him, I said, “We have to be really alert to the blokes that I talk to and show how to do a course, and we have to read – read and write to go through a literacy and numeracy.  It’s very important for you to write and understand.”  And he said – and some boys say, “Yeah, yeah, yeah” and then next minute they – but me and Roger all the time there.  And the teacher talk to them, and we talk to them in the language, translating into language, and they understand.  But they don’t understand what the teacher’s talking to them. 

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