Posted on 09/21/2024 9:58:18 AM PDT by sopo
Finnish is known for its challenging grammar and vocabulary, which can be daunting for learners. It features a complex system of cases—15 in total—which can change the endings of nouns based on their function in a sentence. Additionally, Finnish is a language isolated from other European languages, so there are few cognates for English speakers to rely on.
Nevertheless, Finnish is a language worth learning for its unique position in the world. Finland boasts a high standard of living, stunning natural landscapes, and a rich cultural history. Learning Finnish can enhance your experience if you plan to travel or work in Finland, allowing you to connect more deeply with its people and culture.
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maybe that’s why the competitor to Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady is Hungarian
What about Engrish?
Preferred learning Russian to learning French. Major problem was remembering that letters that looked like English were pronounced COMPLETELY differently. Remember my Russian instructor cringing every time I had to recite. Thank goodness it was a research university and only interested in our being able to read research articles.
“My son got his degree in Mandarin from UC Davis.”
A longtime friend learned Mandarin at the Naval Language School in Monterey, and he spoke and read Spanish before his Monterey/Mandarin classes.
This was during the last year of our war II with Japan/Germany.
He and his classmates never got answers to why Mandarin instead of Japanese or German.
They soon found out why at the end of WWII
The freeper that used to post about Ruzzia doesn’t seem to do that any more.
“i would see young students having to bear down and concentrate on learning the myriad of characters in those written language would correlate with math learning.”
I would disagree. 1. Korean uses a very phonetic script, having abandoned Chinese characters long ago (by order of one of their greatest kings). 2. Learning 3,000 Chinese characters advances memorization, not logic, and math, when you get past the basics, is a lot of logic.
Polish is actually fairly easy because the pronunciation of the vowels is consistent, unlike Russian where the vowel pronunciation depends on which syllable the vowel appears in.
“Learning Finnish can enhance your experience if you plan to travel or work in Finland,”
I’m sure 90% of Finns are fluent in English, so as far as travel is concerned there is no need to learn Finnish.
-PJ
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PISA 2022 Mathematics Literacy Results
Explore How U.S. Mathematics Performance Compared Internationally in 2022
Mathematics literacy was the major domain As the major domain, a greater proportion of the assessment is devoted to the subject area, including newly developed items, allowing for more detailed analyses of student performance in the subject.
In addition, most items in the background questionnaires for students and schools focus on some aspect of the major domain subject, such as how it is taught, school resources related to the teaching of the subject, or students’ levels of engagement with the subject.in PISA 2022 as it was in 2003 and 2012.
For 2022, the PISA mathematics literacy framework was updated to reflect mathematics in a rapidly changing world driven by new technologies and trends in which citizens are creative and engaged, making nonroutine judgments for themselves and the society in which they live.
This brings into focus students’ ability to reason mathematically and to understand computational thinking concepts that are part of mathematical literacy.
In PISA, the assessment of mathematics literacy focuses on students’ capacity to formulate, use, and interpret mathematics in a variety of contexts. Proficiency in mathematics is more than the ability to reproduce the knowledge of mathematical concepts and procedures; it is conceptualized as students’ ability to extrapolate from what they know and apply their knowledge in both familiar and unfamiliar situations.
In PISA 2022, mathematics literacy is defined as students’ capacity to formulate, employ, and interpret mathematics in a variety of contexts. It includes reasoning mathematically and using mathematical concepts, procedures, facts, and tools to describe, explain, and predict phenomena.
To take better advantage of the administration of PISA on computer and to improve the measurement of the subject, the PISA 2022 assessment of mathematics literacy included multi-stage adaptive testing for the first time.
Instead of using fixed, predetermined test booklets, as in previous cycles, the PISA 2022 mathematics assessment was dynamically determined, based on how a student performed in prior stages. Read more about the multi-stage adaptive testing design used in PISA.
Ok , thanks for the discussion. You are more well informed on this than I am, as I certainly didn’t know this about Korean. That sounds like long before the division of North and South.
Over the centuries, Hungarians have contributed much to the world in the arts and in the sciences. And what do most people think of when they hear the world “Hungarian”? It’s either goulash or that Monty Python sketch.
Oh, well. At least it wasn’t a Benny Hill sketch.🙂
The same thought occurred to me. And it’s not just math, it’s overall intelligence (IQ).
I also think of Al Hrabosky, the Mad Hungarian.
I’ll have to go back to change the author. it did first show up in my e-mail.
And "higher education" can mean what the manifesto of a feminist wordcrafter in wokeducation examples, in warring against what God ordained,
"...intersections with race, ethnicity, coloniality, class and ability, the sex/gender system of oppression has long served as a taxonomizing apparatus. And yet, the literary, in league with anticolonial, civil rights and LGBTQ social movements,...animates the liberatory potential of imagining embodied relations otherwise... representations of gender and sexuality can leverage critiques against normativity...Taking our transnational cue from subjugated knowledges and intersectional epistemologies, we’ll constellate the diverging genealogies and methodologies...
Against the traffic of binary opposition, we’ll index the possibilities of intimacy and performativity... As a class collective, our aim is to read and reread as well as write and rewrite texts that interrogate and complicate how gender and sexuality, as contested sites of pleasure and pain, are embodied and experienced."
This counts toward the methods requirement for the major. Prerequisite: ENGL 103 or 104. Open only to first-year and sophomore students.
Author is Brianna Thompson, who teaches courses in American women’s literature, queer theory and utopias/Afrofuturism at Kenyon college (founded by Episcopal Bishop in 1824). Course is Reading and Writing Gender and Sexuality ENGL 214, https://www.kenyon.edu/academics/departments-and-majors/english/academic-program-requirements/courses-in-english/
Author is employed from a college founded in 1824 by Episcopal Bishop Philander Chase, which now has a potential candidate ("Brianna Thompson") for the office of implementation of WOKE policies under the auspices of a Council of Transexuality:
I took 6 semesters of Mandarin Chinese from a community collage and private lessons. I no longer had to travel to China so I gave up the classes about 15 years ago.
Then I married a woman from Guangzhou. She spoke Cantonese in the home with our son, a local Guanxi dialect with her family and Mandarin with the neighbors. I found Cantonese has 9 tones. I thought Mandarin was hard to hear the tones with my old ears... Cantonese was worse. I didn’t even try.
When my wife move to the US, I asked if she would yell at me in Chinese if she got angry. She told me that she would yell at me in English because she wanted me to understand every word she said.
That’s impressive. It always seemed like a difficult language.
I went to China (Shanghai and Zhangjiagang) on business in early ‘01 and learned the standard “Hello/Goodbye/Thank you…”
The only phrase I remember from then is how to say “I’d like another beer.” (phonetically “tsai lai eeping pidjio.”)
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