Archive for September, 2009

4 Reasons Why You Should Learn Chinese?

The first question my students always ask me would be “Is Chinese hard to learn? I would say ‘YES, if you use the wrong method!’, so, for me, Chinese isn’t hard to learn at all, It’s just like when you first watch a magic trick, it’s amazing! But when you know the secret about it, you will master it in the shortest period.

So, why you should learn Chinese? What is the reasons that cause millions of students taking Chinese or Mandarin as their 2nd language?

There are just too many reasons to explain it. First, Chinese is the language of Nearly 1/4 of the World’s Population. Speakers of Chinese not only live in China, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, but also spread throughout Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe, where large Chinese communities congregate. Basically you can find China town in majority city. Chinese people today have been playing increasingly important roles worldwide,4 out of 10 top corporates in the world are owned by Chinese.

Second, learning Chinese is an extraordinary and agreeable experience through which you can immerse yourself in a different culture. Unlike most languages, Chinese has a unique ideographic writing system, which provides visual comprehensibility. The grammatical structure of Chinese is not only logical, but also pragmatic, related to the particular way of Chinese thinking. Knowledge of the written language opens up the culture of one of the world’s oldest civilizations. Chinese cultural can be trace back to 5000 years ago.

Third, traditional Chinese culture, from Confucianism and Chan Buddhism to martial arts and Chinese cuisine, has an enormous influence on East and Southeast Asian nations. Chinese culture has also greatly inspired the western world through Marco Polo, G. W. Leibniz, Max Weber, Franz Kafka, Andre Malraux, Bertolt Brecht, Ezra Pound, and Luis Borges, among others.

Last, but not least, the People’s Republic of China currently boasts the fastest growing economy in the world and is widely regarded as the potentially biggest global market in the twenty-first century. Proficient speakers of Mandarin Chinese will find jobs in various fields such as business, government, international relations, information technology, tourism, education, translation and much, much more. Of all foreign languages at American universities and colleges, Chinese shows the highest proportional increase in enrollment. With us, you get to have a chance to experience how to learn Chinese, it’s not hard at all.

Many of our site visitors at Learn Chinese For Free .com learn chinese language for the purpose of working in China in the future, as now there are many opportunities to do so. Some people from our site followed our best recommended way to learn Chinese and they’ve successfully achieve certain level in Chinese. A few of our visitors learn Chinese just for challenge, as they believed (but later proven to be wrong) that it is one of the most difficult languages to learn, because with us, Mandarin Chinese is not as difficult as they thought.

Lastly, I wish you all the best in Learning Chinese

I list all my free Chinese lessons and articles at : http://www.LearnChineseForFree.com

Best wishes,

Jayden

Jayden Yap is one of a very influential Chinese Language Expert. Most of the time he would travel around the globe sharing everything about Chinese cultural, chinese language.


He’s good in speaking both English and Chinese and he can easily teach you how you can speak Chinese like anyone can in the shortest time frame.


Most of his Free Chinese Lessons & Articles are listed at : http://www.LearnChineseForFree.com

School Without Walls students learn about sexual slavery, ask Hillary Clinton for help

School Without Walls students learn about sexual slavery, ask Hillary Clinton for help
English students at School Without Walls are focusing on sexual slavery and asking Hillary Clinton for help.

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What is the best way learn to speak Spanish at home?

All the free options just don’t work for me. Everyone I speak to say that you can’t affectively learn Spanish online. I don’t have time nor flexibility for one to one lessons. I want to spend a bit of money on a proven solution because I am moving to Spain for work in 3 months and need to be able to communicate at least on a basic level. What shall I buy?

Riviera Invasion, a Step Team competition and more are happening around the towns

Riviera Invasion, a Step Team competition and more are happening around the towns
METCDO YOU SEE A SHADOW? — Museum of Early Trades & Crafts Educator, Stephanie Turner sits with her puppet ground hog friend as they celebrate Groundhogs Day at the Museum. There will be a special Pre-Groundhog Day program for children…

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Free Italian Language Lessons in Second Life

Experience a real Italian language class from your home. It is not a new e-learn software or a DVD language course, neither an Audio Couse nor a home tuition!

What is it then? Log in Second Life, come to our Italian Campus Classes and enter one of the first experiment of Italian language courses held by Scuola Leonardo. The Italian language lessons will be hosted by the “Second Life Festival” inside the Official Island of Tuscany during the “Festival della Creatività” (Creativity Festival) organized from 25th to 28th October.

This is a testing organised by Sigmasei in collaboration with Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, the leading italian language school in Italy, which counts more than 30 years of experience and is officially authorized by the Italian Ministry of Education. SIGMA SEI S.a.s. is a society specialized in the field of consulting and it has introduced its own project concerning the development of a virtual Italian language learning Campus on Second Life which is addressed to foreign students.

The Scuola Leonardo da Vinci experience and desire of innovation bring to this new test to give everybody the chance to learn Italian directly from your home thanks to innovative platforms like the 3D world of Second Life.

We invite all the interested people to come visit us, to have an Italian language lesson or just a visit of the Tuscany island, where you can see the famous Tower of Pisa, enter the Duomo of Florence, or just have a look at the famous “Scoppio del Carro”. All around, you will find Italian people or teachers available to speak with you.

Are you ready? If you want to partecipate, just log in to Second Life and subscribe to our SL group (called “I love italian language“) and come to one of our language courses starting every day from 12.00 till 13.30.

We are waiting for you!

Info and uptades: http://secondlife.scuolaleonardo.com/en

The Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, officially authorized by the Italian Ministry of Education, was founded in Florence in 1977 and boasts 30 years of experience as institute specialized in the field of Italian teaching. During the following years several school?s branches opened in Milan, Rome and Siena.

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Learn The Italian Language With Ease

Pasta, Ti Amo, Prego are three words from Italy. Italy’s language is called Italian and learning this language is more like reading every English syllables of every word. The Italian language is fairly easy to understand and learn since some words can be recognized easily the moment it is mentioned. Some Italian words are even used now by millions of people across the globe.

Interested to learn the Italian language? If you are, good for you then. Learning another language other than a person’s mother tongue helps enhance a person’s memory capabilities and thinking skills. Unfortunately, many people give up too early by the minute they go through Lesson One of their Italian books or Audio materials. This shouldn’t be the case since learning is not an easy and quick process. Surely you didn’t graduate from high school without going through all the required subjects and passing grades right? Why learning a foreign language is any different?

Still, we can’t ignore the fact that not everyone is willing to sit down and read Italian books. The good thing about this century is that millions of people can access whatever information they want by using the Internet. This is where the good stuff comes from too. If you are a busy person who can’t spare time in going to universities to learn a foreign language or even immerse yourself on another country, search for foreign language learning programs from the internet.

Another thing, you need not to stick to old memorization techniques like repetition since your memory will most likely fail you with this type of method. What you can do instead is to carry around a picture dictionary while you read an Italian children’s book. Why a children’s book? Because you start from the basics and it’s easier to learn the correct usage and order of words. Watching a movie with Italian subtitles can also enhance your listening skills in association to the words on the screen.

To easily remember Italian words versus the English interpretation, you simply can associate the words to a funny event or situation. Remember we mentioned awhile ago that learning another language enriches your brain and it applies to this method. Let’s try to imagine a lazy donkey. The donkey is too lazy to eat or take a bath but is never lazy to play card games even if it has to play at the last casino open in town. If you haven’t guessed it yet, the word donkey from the English vocabulary and l’asino in Italian are the example words used. Crazy, right?

This example is just one easy and efficient way how to learn and memorize the Italian language and other international languages as well. Check http://learn-italian-program.com for more Italian words.

Shareen Aguilar is a writer for http://learn-italian-program.com which has Memory Improvement Books and Memory Game Software for better Italian language memorization.

Statewide Invitational tournament in Sylvania hones skills as teens take on national issues

Statewide Invitational tournament in Sylvania hones skills as teens take on national issues
By CARL RYAN BLADE STAFF WRITER There’s bound to be a lot of talking when you put more than 1,000 teenagers together. But Saturday and Friday, this was even more the case at Sylvania Northview and Southview high schools, which were host to students from across the state competing in one of the largest speech and debate tournaments in Ohio. “It’s one of the best there is,” said Joe Long, the …

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Is there a software that a Vietnamese teenager can use at home to learn English?

She is already going to an American public school, reading books, watching DVD movies with subtitles and a dictionary, and practicing with me whenever I have the time. I’ve heard of programs like Rosetta Stone or Pimsleur, but they are for native English speakers to learn other languages. Is there anything similar that non-English speakers can use to learn English? Either in CD format or computer software that can help her further learn English to supplement what’s she’s already doing. – Thanks

Chinese Media: It Was Only a Goodbye Kiss

Chinese Media: It Was Only a Goodbye Kiss
The Chinese-American media are calling on the U.S. government to go soft on Jiang HaiSong after he was arrested last Friday for slipping through the security checkpoint to kiss his girlfriend goodbye at the Newark International Airport. But on Chinese Internet discussion boards, opinion is divided.

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