Dear Mr. Swan! This  is a commentary to the principles of your work described in your wonderful "bee" blogs. I've been teaching English here in the very depth of Russia, at the border between Europe and Asia for nearly forty years.And practically in every point of your blogs quite unexpectably I found very much in common with the ideas my experience had proved to be correct and useful. The teachers of our generation had gone through the jungles of methods, systems and ways of teaching.  Grammar teaching had always been the "bloodiest battlefild"where the swords of the most natural and reasonable ideas   expressed in your blogs were crossed with the attitudes of complete neglect of grammar ( "let them speak broken English if it fulfils its communication functions'). Your blogs were the words of calm common sense for me . Iam going to present them to our English teaching authorities.Thank you for your fine work!

Irina Gruzdeva from Russia.