NATO Speak: Teaching English To Partners For Global Missions
Ministry of Defence of Georgia
May 7, 2013
BILC Conference
The conference “NATO Speak: English in Multinational Settings” is ongoing in the “Courtyard Marriott” Hotel. Deputy Defence Minister Tamar Karosanidze opened the Bureau for International Language Coordination (BILC) Conference.
Deputy Chief of JS of GAF [Joint Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces], Colonel Vladimer Chachibaia, representatives of the Defence Ministry and military attaches of NATO member and partner countries accredited to Georgia attended the forum. The conference is hosted by the Defence Ministry of Georgia and Joint Staff of the GAF.
Chairman of BILC Secretary Julie Bubeau leads the seminar.
The BILC conference aims to promote the English language development within the partner countries of the Alliance. 64 delegates from 26 NATO member and partner countries take part in the conference. During four days civilian and military language specialists discuss the issues of elaboration of English language models on the base of received experience, which aims to develop language knowledge level of military personnel contributing to international missions.
The participants of the seminar also touch upon NATO policy in the direction of education, trainings and testing. BILC is a NATO’s advisory body on language matters. Since 2005 BILC experts have been carrying out language training and testing activities within Georgian Armed Forces in order to develop language matters. Annual BILC Conference will come to an end on May 9.
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Rick
I am one of those who attended the BILC conference in Georgia. One of the matters discussed was how nations – NATO members and non-members – can communicate more effectively through the lingua franca of English. One of the benefits of such co-operation is that ISAF nations can better fight the Taliban and help the Afghans run their own country (from 2015 it’ll be Afghans who’ll be taking care of their own security).
Of course, you and your readers may prefer to allow the Taliban and warlords to run that country instead, thus allowing girls and young women to be deprived of schooling and to be kept in their place and even disfigured by such people. Well done you !
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English is NATO’s common language for war. Just that and nothing else or more.
My closest friend for the past 33 years is from Afghanistan. Every member of his large and accomplished family is either dead or in exile due to the American Mujahedin war of 1978-1992 and the Taliban takeover which succeeded it. My friend’s sister is a medical doctor.
So don’t presume to lecture me on Afghan females receiving an education.
It is people like yourself who caused the Afghan tragedy or are active apologists for it.
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English is so much more…the language of Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Orwell, amongst so many others. Your friend for the past 33 years will have witnessed most of that suffering under the SOVIET OCCUPATION and the CIVIL WAR that followed it. That’s right, Richard. Civil war. That means Afghans killing other Afghans. It’s a sad fact of life, but Afghans are very keen on killing their fellow Afghans in the name of Allah/Pashtunwali/personal gain/good old-fashioned revenge/you name it. I didn’t cause the Afghan tragedy (No, honestly, I didn’t !) but I believe that the UK MoD might be a part of the solution.
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What foul and loathsome misanthropic and racist bilge.
Precisely what one would expect from the British “defence” establishment, which has waged war against the Afghan people four times since the middle of the 19th century.
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As we used to say at school, ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me’. Are you still at school Richard ? A word of advice (and also a lesson in life): if you don’t want to read opinions that don’t chime with your own, don’t parade your personal prejudices in a public space. Simple !
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