I have decided to have some discussions with Nancy Van Insberghe, our accountant. This will take place over the next few weeks. We will record these discussions and include them as content in The Linguist.
Nancy and I will talk about accounting using easy language, but at the same time we will introduce accounting terminology as we cover the important concepts of that discipline.
Nancy has had quite a career in accounting and has even been an instructor in Accounting at Vancouver Community College. I think that people in fields like banking, and business in general, can only benefit from this review of accounting in English. In time we will offer conversational courses on other subjects for the members of The Linguist. We are open to suggestions of what kind of content would be of interest.
The format we will use will be conversational. That means that I will ask Nancy questions and she will reply. I think this is easier to listen to than a formal lecture style, especially since we want our learners to listen repeatedly to our content. We are not ruling out having more formal content as well.
I hope that one day The Linguist can be a platform for teaching many subjects. I foresee the day when people who have skills and knowledge to share can do so via The Linguist community. This will be especially effective when we offer The Linguist for learning many other languages. We can than have discussions with accountants, and other experts, in Spanish, or Japanese, or Arabic or whatever language people are interested in learning and learning about. But all of this is for the future.
I am sure that there are learners with The Linguist right now who have knowledge that they can share with others, who could give us short courses in their languages on their areas of expertise. This would be valuable for other Linguist members.
