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goldentip kaže:

It is of no practical use to stress British English as proper and American as a form of almost "broken" English.

There is only one English language. All others are bad copies.

An old-fashioned tradition stemming from the neocolonial times during the '50s and the '60s when the bulk of English teachers in Croatia were educated who then educated subsequent generations of English teachers in Croatia. The skills of an average English teacher in Croatia are far from C1 or C2 level, haha, they are at best at B2 level - upper intermediate, the majority of them.

They don't need to have university education (even though it is required by job advertisers) to teach the English language to a higher standards in primary and secondary schools. At the universities it may be required that professors have a sufficient education.


But, it is much more important that teachers, students and actually all citizens of the democratic Republic of Croatia are able to speak fluently the proper Croatian language.

You see until recently the Serbo Croatian language was a compulsory language in schools and in everyday life. For centuries on end this mixture of gibberish degraded our beautiful native language.

So there should be more focus on the Croatia language itself.

How can a grammar school English teacher not know what perishable means, what is a tile, and so on? It is deplorable, yet that's what we have in our schools.

It is deplorable, but how do you know of this. Have you got any specific stories to tell?