Christmas is here, i see...
聖誕節來了~
我看見...
2009年12月18日 星期五
what is there in my bag?
What's there in the backpack?
In the backpack, there are...
書(shū)包(bāo)裡(lǐ)有(yǒu)什(shén)麼(me)?
書(shū)包(bāo)裡(lǐ)有(yǒu).......
In the backpack, there are...
書(shū)包(bāo)裡(lǐ)有(yǒu)什(shén)麼(me)?
書(shū)包(bāo)裡(lǐ)有(yǒu).......
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Want to learn Chinese by having fun ?
Learning Chinese by Having Fun
WHY to learn Chinese
1. Learning a second language "boosts" brain-power, scientists believe.~by BBC
2. Chinese is the most spoken language in the world. 1/4polulation on earth speaks Chinese.
3. Chinese ability is where job is.
China is one of US top trading partners-total trade $245.2 billion in 2004.
Chinese has become very useful in government. The Austrian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd , The US Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geitner , The former Utah Governor, now Ambassador to China, Jon Huntsman are all fluent in Chinese
How will I learn Chinese
1. The language classes are designed to expose children to Chinese, through fun activities adapted to the student’s age and level of proficiency in the language. Class size will be 5-10 students.
2. By infusing multi materials in the Chinese class, students will be well prepared to communicate, compete and collaborate with the global community with Chinese. In addition, our students will be cultivated with a rich Chinese culture, which will offer students special humane and harmony insights besides the language learning.
Who is the teacher
1. New Jersey state certified K-12 mandarin Chinese teacher.
2. MA degree in Comparative Literature, specialized in modern Chinese literature and culture study.
3. Plus four-year’s teaching experience in American public and private schools.
Location of the classroom: Parsippany, New Jersey. (private tutoring class also available by request)
Contact information
Email:paohsuanhuang@hotmail.com Cell phone:646-964-8298 Please contact me for more details.
START AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE
Learning languages 'boosts brain' | |||
Researchers from University College London studied the brains of 105 people - 80 of whom were bilingual. They found learning other languages altered grey matter - the area of the brain which processes information - in the same way exercise builds muscles. People who learned a second language at a younger age were also more likely to have more advanced grey matter than those who learned later, the team said. Scientists already know the brain has the ability to change its structure as a result of stimulation - an effect known as plasticity - but this research demonstrates how learning languages develops it.
The scans revealed the density of the grey matter in the left inferior parietal cortex of the brain was greater in bilinguals than in those without a second language. The effect was particularly noticeable in the "early" bilinguals, the findings published in the journal Nature revealed. The findings were also replicated in a study of 22 native Italian speakers who had learned English as a second language between the ages of two and 34. Lead researcher Andrea Mechelli, of the Institute of Neurology at UCL, said the findings explained why younger people found it easier to learn second languages. Impact "It means that older learners won't be as fluent as people who learned earlier in life. "They won't be as good as early bilinguals who learned, for example, before the age of five or before the age of 10." But Cilt, the national centre for languages, cast doubt on whether learning languages was easier at a younger age. A spokeswoman said: "There are conflicting views about the comparative impact of language learning in different age groups, based both on findings and anecdotal evidence." However, she said it was important to get young people learning languages in the UK. Only one in 10 UK workers can speak a foreign language, a recent survey revealed. But by 2010 all primary schools will have to provide language lessons for children. bY BBC NEW | |||
It means that older learners won't be as fluent as people who learned earlier in life 
MANDARIN CHINESE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU THINK.
New 'must learn' language likely to be Mandarin
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The world faces a future of people speaking more than one language, with English no longer seen as likely to become dominant, a British language expert says in a new analysis.
"English is likely to remain one of the world's most important languages for the foreseeable future, but its future is more problematic -- and complex -- than most people appreciate," said language researcher David Graddol.
He sees English as likely to become the "first among equals" rather than having the global field to itself.
"Monolingual speakers of any variety of English -- American or British -- will experience increasing difficulty in employment and political life, and are likely to become bewildered by many aspects of society and culture around them," Graddol said.
The share of the world's population that speaks English as a native language is falling, Graddol reports in a paper in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
The idea of English becoming the world language to the exclusion of others "is past its sell-by date," Graddol says. Instead, its major contribution will be in creating new generations of bilingual and multilingual speakers, he reports.
A multi-lingual population is already the case in much of the world and is becoming more common in the United States. Indeed, the Census Bureau reported last year that nearly one American in five speaks a language other than English at home, with Spanish leading, and Chinese growing fast.
And that linguistic diversity, in turn, has helped spark calls to make English the nation's official language.
Yale linguist Stephen Anderson noted that multilingualism is "more or less the natural state. In most of the world multilingualism is the normal condition of people."
"The notion that English shouldn't, needn't and probably won't displace local languages seems natural to me," he said in a telephone interview.
While it is important to learn English, he added, politicians and educators need to realize that doesn't mean abandoning the native language.
Graddol, of the British consulting and publishing business The English Company, anticipates a world where the share of people who are native English speakers slips from 9 percent in the mid-twentieth century to 5 percent in 2050.
As of 1995, he reports, English was the second most-common native tongue in the world, trailing only Chinese.
By 2050, he says, Chinese will continue its predominance, with Hindi-Urdu of India and Arabic climbing past English among 15-to-24 year olds, and Spanish nearly equal to it. Graddol said he focused on the 15- to 24-year-old group in 2050 to give an indication of the future past that point.
Swarthmore College linguist K. David Harrison noted, however, that "the global share of English is much larger if you count second-language speakers, and will continue to rise, even as the proportion of native speakers declines."
Harrison disputed listing Arabic in the top three languages, "because varieties of Arabic spoken in say, Egypt and Morocco are mutually incomprehensible."
Even as it grows as a second language, English may still not ever be the most widely spoken language in the world, according to Graddol, since so many people are native Chinese speakers and many more are learning it as a second language.
English has become the dominant language of science, with an estimated 80 percent to 90 percent of papers in scientific journals written in English, notes Scott Montgomery in a separate paper in the same issue of Science. That's up from about 60 percent in the 1980s, he observes.
"There is a distinct consciousness in many countries, both developed and developing, about this dominance of English. There is some evidence of resistance to it, a desire to change it," Montgomery said in a telephone interview.
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Numbers in Chinese 1-5
Can you count 1-5 in Chinese?
1.Please see the movie and practice.
(The movie will show both the numbers and the Chinese characters.)
2.Remember to print out the flash cards and cut them down.
3.Good Job you have done~
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