| Humanising Language Teaching Year 3; Issue 4; July 2001 In the May Issue 2001, the editor asked readers how exactly they process HLT when they visit the site. Here are two answers to this question: How I read HLT Dear Mario Rinvolucri, Because of restricted computer access and memory in my workplace, I tend to be an HLT skimmer. I set aside a block of about 10-15 minutes (yes, I'm a speed reader; I certainly wouldn't recommend this technique to my students!) to peruse the latest issue and occasionally read passages aloud to unwilling victims in the room. I am a fence-sitter in terms of some of the issues that HLT raises , but I think it is essential that they are raised by some one in the type of format that you have chosen. Keep up the good work! Lisa Harshbarger School of Foreign Languages Ministry of Defence Lyubljana Slovenia Dear Mario, In your HLT editorial in May 2001 you expressed your curiosity concerning how people read the magazine. For me it has varied considerably depending on the sort of access available to me. For the first time I have now downloaded the current issue ( on my father-in-law's computer) and then spent perhaps half an hour sorting through articles I wanted to print out to peruse at greater length ( which was a lot) . I now have two paper wodges on my desk which I grab when I have ten to fifteen minutes to spare. I did have technical problems with the zipped thingamyjig. I couldn't navigate like on the internet, but had to read through the funny codes ( was that HTML?) or, more often, open them to see what they were. Otherwise I have often only had a twenty minute session in the library to try and read as much as I could of the items that really grabbed my attention. In the future I shall be able to print off whatever I want while online, as our school had unlimited internet access without having to pay for it. I certainly prefer reading from paper. My eyes go funny if I spend more than half an hour looking at the screen. Thank you very much for producing a valuable webzine. Wishing you interesting surprises, Graham Thomsen graham_thomsen@web.de