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Mission Statement for this website: I wish to promote the use of the system of Basic English developed by C.K.Ogden. The teaching of English as a second language is a very great business. And the learning of English as a second language is hard. With Basic English the teaching and the learning might be as cheap and quick as possible. Brief History of Basic English: Basic is the first letters of the words British,American,Scientific,International and Commercial. Basic English is a constructed language which at the first level is limited to 850 words and a half dozen rules of grammar. And then the special uses and the expanded uses of each word are given so the entire system is given in a little book such as 'The ABC of Basic English' of less than two hundred pages and a summary of the complete system is put on one page. A good learner can do the entire system in a month and a half and be able read and understand all the ideas necessary to normal life which are put in Basic. I know that many people want to learn English to talk and to understand the speaking of English. There are not many who have English as a first language who put their ideas in words at the most simple level. I hope to use the apparatus of the internet to make available for everyone examples of Basic and to give a place for talk. About this website: Thank you for coming. There are many pages of ideas and sometimes I can not find where I put something. This is called navigation. Here are some pictures to help you find your way:  This picture is at the top of the page. The ? takes you a place for help. What is this? It takes you to a place for help(at the top,not here) What is this? Type in names that you are looking for. If it is somewhere on this site it will give the pages which have the name. What are these? The first will bring you back to this page, The second will let you send me a message, the third will take you to a calendar and the fourth will take you to a picture of this website(where things are). What is this? This is on all pages of this site. The second,third and fourth let you go sideways to other places. The menu lets you go from place to place on this site. You can also go from place to place at the bottom each page. Try it. You are always able to come back here by clicking 'home'.
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