PINK EMU'S EGG
In an interesting speech in Paris a fow weeks ago Mr. Beazleyy chairman of the Education Committee of the British Chamber of Conimerce, which was broadcast from the Eiffel Tower,he spoke of the invaluable assistance given to young people studying commercial French and English by the annual commercial language examinations of the British Chamber, which are to be held this year at the Sorbonne, in Paris. The examinations, he is reported by Keuter's to have said, were entirely free of charge, the English tost being open to French and Belgians and the French test to British. As well as translating 20 commercial phrases, candidates had to take a dictation, write an essay, and pass an oral test. Mr.'Beazley gave an example of the kind of translation sometimes sent in. An. Australian boy, faced with the phrase "Rose, emuo, repondi," wrote, "The Pink emu laid another I egg."
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 4, 5 July 1928, Page 20
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