There may still be some hope left for CNN...

As far as the competition for global television goes, anyway - a friend of mine posted a link to the CNN video I'm embedding below in his Facebook status update, while asking "Why do we not see more of this kind of reporting in our media?"


That is a very good question! I'm not sure if I even have a proper answer for it but I could instantly relate the video to a book I had just finished reading sections of - English Next. It's a great read if you're wondering what the heck Global English may mean or where the world is headed (seriously!) The book is FREE and well worth checking out:

Official website/Link to free PDF version of the book

There is a segment on the role of News Media and it specifies that:

Two trends are apparent in international news: more global channels in English and new rival channels in other world languages.

Well, I'd say the video's a fine example of the first trend.

That aside, I've apparently been a guinea pig/test subject for all 5 different "models" of learning English, they'd just change with every teacher I've ever had in my life - from the "English as a foreign language" model (designed to produce failure, according to the book's author... There's some great news!) to the much more dynamic CLIL model (Content and language integrated learning) it seems like I've had every model in-between applied on me at some stage in my life or another (including trying to learn English back when I was still going to kindergarten).

And now for your entertainment: