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Many people think I am crazy that I have started my 18 month old daughter with Chinese lessons. She is learning to speak English and Polish as a native speaker.  I am adding Chinese lessons to her life. I think this will be a huge advantage to her in life. However, many people including English [...]

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How hard is Chinese After learning Polish, and now starting to learn Chinese, I find Chinese ridiculously simple.  They do have tones, but since this has a musically quality and its not hard to learn.  Chinese grammar, is almost non existent.  No cases, verb conjugation, no article. Nothing.  What about the writing. Well since humans [...]

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Learn Chinese Chinese is an easy language. How do I know. I started to learn Chinese.  It has no grammar, no verb changes, no tenses, no articles, no real prepositions, no cases, noun cases nothing.  The words are short and easy to say. It does have intonations but this is not hard with practive.  If [...]

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The country that will dominate will determine next world language The powers The way I see it is there is the USA, Europe, China, Russia, India. Other power  Other considerations are either too small, like Japan or South Korea or like Africa or South America or the Arab world, does not have; at this time [...]

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Bilingual education in America The USA has given more funding and starting new programs in bilingual education in the public schools.  The objective is to make the USA more competitive in the global market.  These programs are just not traditional languages classes in a foreign language, but these are true bilingual education programs in public [...]

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Learn a language by selling in a market I am an American living in Poland.   And for fun sometimes I go to Ukraine and buy things cheap and sell them in the Polish open air market.  I make some money but more important selling things in a stand all day I learn a lot of [...]

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English has invaded other national languages. Trends in business and demographics is like global warming, often there is little that can be done to reverse these trends. So is the case with the English language. “English has already invaded the languages of Moliere, Cervantes and Goethe, dominating the fields of technology and business and even [...]

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Days after “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” online translations started to appear on the internet. Chinese, French, Spanish version are already on the web, I have not seen Polish but I am sure someone translated it, even for personal fun not for commerical profit. I thought of translating it for fun but I would [...]

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Language sports Of course language will be an issue in the 2008 Chinese Olympics. “Translators and interpreters at next year’s Games will need more than just knowledge of a couple of languages, an expert has said. They’ll also need to be able to speak the language of sport. As American Colin Pine – Yao Ming’s [...]

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Students are studying less traditional European languages and more exotic languages What languages are hot now?  Chinese and Arabic.  These languages are growing in popularity. French and Latin not as much. The reasons are obvious, Chinese and Arabic is a manifestation of the geo-economic-political-demographics shifts. Also its fun to be different. If everyone around you [...]

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