His English was Basic
N the qui vive at their radios in distant Norway and Sweden several members of amateur listening clubs in those ‘countries have picked up New Zealand short-wave broadcasts, and they have written to the NBS about it. The procedure with these long-distance listeners is to copy out part of a broadcast and send it back to the source for verification — no easy task when the broadcast is in another language. A Swedish listener who has written to the NBS, after faithfully recording a couple of sentences abruptly, winds up with, "Sorry, my English is break." No wonder it is "break," because it was a winter morning in his country when he had to wrestle with the language problem. He had caught the short-wave transmission given by ZLT 7 to the broadcast of New Zealand news over 2YC every evening.
A.H.
K.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 355, 12 April 1946, Page 9
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145His English was Basic New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 355, 12 April 1946, Page 9
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