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Obama's daughter, Sasha, practices Chinese with Hu (Isn't that special?).....
Yahoo News ^ | 01/21/11 | Yahoo News

Posted on 01/21/2011 8:22:37 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway

Talk about a high level language exchange. President Barack Obama's nine-year-old daughter, Sasha, wanted to test her developing Chinese skills this week while Hu Jintao was in town. Just whom did she want to practice them with? The Chinese president himself, according to a White House official who recounted the story on Thursday after a formal state dinner the previous night. "The president pointed out last night at the state dinner that his daughter, Sasha, is a very young girl but her class is studying Chinese," Ben Rhodes, a White House deputy national security adviser, told a video conference with Chinese bloggers.

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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Oh great, now she knows how to say, “We will bury you!”.


41 posted on 01/21/2011 10:14:54 AM PST by crosshairs (The word for actor in Greek is hypocrite (its true).)
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To: crosshairs

“All our base will belong to you”.


42 posted on 01/21/2011 11:09:23 AM PST by freebird5850 (It ain't about where he was born, it's about dual citizenship)
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To: Sacajaweau
"Why wasn't Michelle at this affair??

She came out with O

P.S. I don't think the dress was bad, but it wasn't appropriate for the event. Those silver things on it shone like large sequins. OY!

She shook hands with Hu and then she disappeared. POOF! I had the TV on and I was looking for her, but she must have gone inside again.

43 posted on 01/21/2011 12:36:48 PM PST by Mila
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
I can just imagine a Chinese teacher with a really condescending sense of humor teaching the Obamanette a phrase in Chinese that she says means "I am very pleased to meet you", but actually means "Mulattoes are like dogs to the Chinese, except they don't taste as good".


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

44 posted on 01/21/2011 12:48:06 PM PST by The Comedian ("Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" - B. Goldwater)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Why would a 9 year old American kid be learning Chinese in the first place. Gee, daddy must really have a great planfor America.

Contrast this puff piece to anything about the Palin kids.


45 posted on 01/21/2011 6:43:55 PM PST by hattend (The meaning of the 2010 election was rebuke, reject, and repeal. - Sarah Palin)
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To: hattend

Jim Rogers has not only moved his family to China, he insists they learn Mandarin fluency. He sees China as the future dominant trading power on the planet. ANd he is probably right! Sasha may be our first Chinese speaking president ... if the dead-soul progressives succeed in their agenda.


46 posted on 01/21/2011 6:48:06 PM PST by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: TexasPatriot1

What funny and talented little children!!!!!! God, we are so lucky to have them!!!!! /s


47 posted on 01/21/2011 6:52:23 PM PST by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: blackdog

Isn’t it interesting that if Sasha had been conceived in China, she would’ve been aborted. The one child rule, you know. She would’ve been a goner.


48 posted on 01/21/2011 7:10:32 PM PST by Catsrus (Have)
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To: Sacajaweau
Her class is studying about China...or chinese....?? Really...the Chinese language at age 9 ???????

In Colorado, some public schools teach languages (including Chinese) in kindergarten. Language acquisition is a lot easier for young children than it is for adults, so it makes sense to start teaching them when they're young.

My husband speaks three languages besides English and I speak one other. He started earlier than I did which is probably why he learned so much more.

Right now, we are weighing whether or not we'd like to learn Mandarin or Japanese as a family project. I grew up knowing a few words of Japanese, but according to a friend who speaks both, Mandarin is easier to learn.

49 posted on 01/21/2011 8:50:41 PM PST by mountainbunny
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I agree. It is a GOOD thing for children to learn foreign languages, as many as possible. I don’t speak any foreign language fluently; I wish that had been offered in my elementary school (they didn’t do that, back in those days). And Chinese is very difficult. I’m impressed.

Chow. Au revoir. (that’s about the extent of my foreign language expertise.)


50 posted on 01/22/2011 12:23:18 AM PST by TexasBud
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