A Project of
The UNKOMMON Foundation

	Click on photos to enlarge Prof. JIN signing for Renmin University Humanistic Olympics Studies Center Bruce Signing as WLP International Coordinator Bo Zhang, WLP China Coordinator signs as Prof. JIN and Bruce watch	The World Language Process program of the UNKOMMON Foundation signed a letter of mutual understanding with the Humanistic Olympics Studies Center of Renmin University, which was the body responsible for providing language training for all of China for the 2008 Olympics. The World Language Process was to provide the ACCESS (Auxiliary Closed Captioned English with Simplified Spelling) System for the purpose of teaching in China ten million guides, coordinators, facilitators and others such as taxi drivers and hotel and restaurant workers who would be serving visitors to the 2008 Olympics. The ACCESS system received initial funding from the Canadian Federal Government to prepare the presentation. While in mid-flight back to Canada there was the announcement of the Canadian election results and that the Government of Canada had changed. Much to the astonishment of the coordinator for the UNKOMMON Foundation many frantic and repeated attempts to reach a responsible member of the new Canadian Government were entirely rebuffed and Canada lost a great opportunity, that for a totally insignificant cost, would have greatly enhanced its relationship to China and would have provided a great cultural benefit to Canada in its relationship to the world.
	Bruce Beach, Prof. JIN, BO Zhang	The signing of the letter took place at the final closing ceremony of the June 2004 second Olympic Cultural Festival for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Click on photos to enlarge              Bruce speaks on ACCESS -- Conference Sign in Background -- Canadian Flag on Screen The ACCESS System (Auxiliary Closed Captioned English with Simplified Spelling) is a revolutionary new language teaching system, based upon Three Principles: Phonemization Regularlization Elementalization The history of the development of the System required: new technologies new linguistic theory new pedagogies The ACCESS system is based upon: TWELVE NEW TECHNOLOGIES The ACCESS system permits a person who has never spoken English, and who is perhaps even illiterate in their own language, to learn in less than one month to: read the MOST COMPLICATED POSSIBLE directions to a person who speaks English. give full explanations in English regarding their specialty such as maid service, waitering, etc. take simple directions in English from a person who speaks English Not only that - but a person who has learned all this by using the ACCESS System, at the end of the month they have spent learning it, can then use the same system to teach others. The ACCESS system is a pleasure driven system. While a person may spend only one month learning the system, because it is pleasurable, they will be inclined to go on and improve their skills. If each person who spends one month learning the system, spends another month teaching just ten others, within a year millions of Chinese who do not presently speak English can have learned to speak, regarding their trade, skill or specialty, so that English speaking persons can understand them. The ACCESS system will be freely available to those involved in the 2008 Beijing Olympics

People at conference -
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