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Pinocchio English Course

Open English Course has many supposedly funny ads to show the advantages of an online English course versus a face-to-face one. Because of one of this course's ads, there's a heated  discussion on Facebook about its offensive nature against non-native teachers of English. By the way, the video seems to have been removed. I've tried watching it through different sources, but I couldn't. I do think the commercial is offensive to non-native EFL teachers. However, more than being offensive, it lies to millions of English learners and prospect students. I thought the old discussion on native speaker teachers vs. non-native EFL teachers had been forgotten. I frequently talk to clients and students who ask me about the effectiveness of native teachers, but they easily understand that these teachers are not necessarily the best. Quite the contrary, knowing the language and being born in a country where the language is spoken do not mean knowing about the language or havi