There is an interesting article in Newsweek. The title is “America’s Chinese Problem - The reports of progress are wrong“.
This article points out that although Chinese schools or schools with Chinese programs are popping up in America, suggesting that Americans realize the importance of learning Chinese and understanding China, the number is fairly small. [...]
Would you make your child learn Chinese? This is a question CNN’s Jack Cafferty asked his readers. Well, the question was actually
If you were the parent of a small child, would you make him/her learn Chinese?
This article was posted yesterday and has already attracted 229 comments.
Jack Cafferty argues
China owns us – or soon [...]
I read an article letter from the Times. It was written by Dr Richard Pike, Chief Executive of Royal Society of Chemistry.
Dr. Pike himself was one of the small group of students who started to learn Japanese when Japan started to become the “Asian giant” in 1970s. He later spent years working in Japan, [...]
China is a huge country, there are many regional dialects. Many times people from different regions cannot communicate as if they spoke different languages. The most known spoken languages are Cantonese and Mandarin. Cantonese is the dialect used majorly in the South, in Cantonese Province. Because a lot of Chinese living aboard were from [...]
I read an article from Chosun.com about learning Chinese. It is a Korean newspaper. The article basically encourages Koreans to learn Chinese. It would be easier for Koreans to learn Chinese since Korea was heavily influenced by Chinese language and culture in the past. Actually most of the ancient Korean documents were written in Chinese. [...]
WashingtonPost featured an article titled “New urgency to learn Chinese” by Lori Aratani. The article covered the increasing interest in learning Chinese in US schools and the lack of qualified Chinese teachers.
” Increasingly, it’s non-Asian parents who want their children to learn Chinese, citing the desire to remain competitive for the best jobs.”
“They want their [...]
