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Taxi drivers were yesterday offered free CD and cassette kits to improve their English and Putonghua - but some MCQ #1 fares frequently exchanges complicated complained tailor-made retail consulted criticised access the lessons were too difficult and they were too old to learn. The Government's Workplace English Campaign Steering Committee is offering the language kits and MCQ #2 fares frequently exchanges complicated complained tailor-made retail consulted criticised access to an Internet learning programme to all 40,000 drivers.

The drivers' language skills have often been MCQ #3 fares frequently exchanges complicated complained tailor-made retail consulted criticised access as too basic. The kits cover simple MCQ #4 fares frequently exchanges complicated complained tailor-made retail consulted criticised access such as greetings, asking for destinations and collecting MCQ #5 fares frequently exchanges complicated complained tailor-made retail consulted criticised access . But Taxi Operators Association chairman Leung Shiu-cheong said the language level of the kits was too advanced.

"The kits are too MCQ #6 fares frequently exchanges complicated complained tailor-made retail consulted criticised access and aren't what we were expecting at all," Mr Leung said, adding that the committee had not MCQ #7 fares frequently exchanges complicated complained tailor-made retail consulted criticised access drivers about the content. Committee chairman Michael Tien Pak-sun said the learning tools were MCQ #8 fares frequently exchanges complicated complained tailor-made retail consulted criticised access for drivers so they could improve their language skills during their spare time, including waiting for passengers at taxi stops.

"The key to language learning is to listen MCQ #9 fares frequently exchanges complicated complained tailor-made retail consulted criticised access ; listen to it whenever there is a chance," he said. Mr Tien said the programme cost nearly $300,000 and similar learning kits would be made for the MCQ #10 fares frequently exchanges complicated complained tailor-made retail consulted criticised access and catering sectors.