Posted on 02/22/2011 3:14:08 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Nah, his name was Gota Gonow
I was pointing out that when you are discussing tones, you can't refer to the "Chinese" language. You have to refer to the specific dialect. Since Mandarin is the official language in China ( whether you like it or not ) - as well as Taiwan - when most people refer to Chinese, they are really talking about Mandarin.
good point!
Si.
She told me that her students didn't actually speak, read or write the Latin language, rather they spent the class time absorbing Roman culture through movies and pictures.
I wonder what an "A" in that class really meant.
Just damn.....
Mandarin works fine in Big China. You get out into the overseas Chinese community and you’ve gotta’ have facility in Hokien, Cantonese, Shanhainaise, and so on.
Rabbits gotta’ eat so I suppose there’s something to eat there but for the Sakha the purpose of a rabbit is to get shot and yield up his fur. They have some of the larger rabbits on Earth around there. Check this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP_2tmRO31U Yakuts at work!
Godzilla likes being referenced!
I know that. It is the same here in Taiwan. Around Taipei, most people speak Mandarin.But you go to some of the southern parts and ( mostly with the older folks- my inlaws and such ) they speak mostly Taiwanese, even though Mandarin is the "official" language. You even have Hakka spoken in some parts.
Like so many of us, who attended public schools up until around 1965, it came as quite a shock to learn that they didn’t teach like they used to and that you shouldn’t judge course content but the name of the subject.
Such a terrible waste; a flippant disregard for achievement and the criminal destruction of human potential.
A lot of GOOD teachers left the profession once it began to fill with graduates from schools of education run by Sixties radicals — when everything went to hell in a hand basket.
Of course Hakka is spoken in some parts ~ it’s the only way you can communicate with the coastal Chinese communities throughout the disaspora into the Indonesian archipelago and other Southeast Asian places for one thing. Plus, their food is better.
That’s a good point. Those kids should have been placed in some college’s distance learning program instead of watching Anpan Man cartoons.
But which gojira?? ;-P
Kichi wa subete wareware no monoda.
She probably learned to say things like "my pencil is yellow" and how to order sushi. Once she has gotten past these, (and found out where the bathroom is), real conversation might be difficult.
Of course!
Ok bert, why would your kids need to learn japanese?
Sure sounds like it would be as easy at home as with the publx skols, only watching tv. Ever hear of Rosetta Stone?
One of the very best reasons for home school is so the kids don’t have to suffer thtough any class within which to “privleged minority” continually disrupt with shouting MoFo at teacher and students.
Apparently you live in a bad place. Perhaps you should move
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