Second language, second thoughts: what next for ESL?

VietnamNews - Oct 8, 2026

This is Việt Nam though, and I’ve been hearing rumours of the golden age of ESL coming to a close since at least the summer of 2016, when I was still trawling Dave’s ESL Café in the hope of understanding what I was about to get myself into.

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