Chinese Immersion Programs

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moonchild508

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Several elementary schools in OC now offer Chinese immersion programs.  Do public schools in Irvine offer such programs, or have plans to do so?
 
I am surprised you don't know it by now - your profession calls for this language skill. but as long as you understand the currency, I assume it is ok?
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USCTrojanCPA said:
Are these programs also available for big kids at heart?  It might benefit me to learn Mandarin.  :D
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I know that guy on the bill.

His red guards executed a man pounding a nail on a thin wall inside his government built home and the nail exited on the other side of the wall and puncture Mao's face on the poster.

His red guards mostly known as today's (FCB) executed a guy by stabbing a guy through his brain and made the deceased man's wife lick up his brain juice. She later hung herself.

His red guards executed people who wiped their ass with newspaper and accidentally smear picture of chairman Mao when the country has no toilet paper.

The schools are teaching Mandarin and Chinese characters but both are not the Mandarin and simplified Chinese spoken and written in China.

If the point is to communicate to the future superpower then don't teach the language from Taiwan.
 
USCTrojanCPA said:
Are these programs also available for big kids at heart?  It might benefit me to learn Mandarin.  :D
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Big kid here need to learn Spanish. Any good leads? I took a class once, and everyone in that class was already at speaking level. Didn't work well. I have a software, not able to go beyond numbers and identifying objects.

How good is Rosetta Stone? Costco gets them once in a while.. but never heard any first hand experiences using it.
 
Move to the evil side of 55 and no future tutorial is needed.

Cubic Zirconia said:
USCTrojanCPA said:
Are these programs also available for big kids at heart?  It might benefit me to learn Mandarin.  :D
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Big kid here need to learn Spanish. Any good leads? I took a class once, and everyone in that class was already at speaking level. Didn't work well. I have a software, not able to go beyond numbers and identifying objects.

How good is Rosetta Stone? Costco gets them once in a while.. but never heard any first hand experiences using it.
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irvinehomeshopper said:
I know that guy on the bill.

His red guards executed a man pounding a nail on a thin wall inside his government built home and the nail exited on the other side of the wall and puncture Mao's face on the poster.

His red guards mostly known as today's (FCB) executed a guy by stabbing a guy through his brain and made the deceased man's wife lick up his brain juice. She later hung herself.

His red guards executed people who wiped their ass with newspaper and accidentally smear picture of chairman Mao when the country has no toilet paper.

The schools are teaching Mandarin and Chinese characters but both are not the Mandarin and simplified Chinese spoken and written in China.

If the point is to communicate to the future superpower then don't teach the language from Taiwan.
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I'm with you on all the points above.  But tell me what is the language from Taiwan?  If your response is traditional Chinese, and where do you thing it came from?  We're the same people.  Even though you may not approve some of the things they do or have done, we have the same root.
 
Simplified Chinese is drastically different from traditional Chinese and the phonic of mandarin also deviated from the soft spoken Taiwanese mandarin. If the goal is to kiss the ass of China then learn the subtleties of the language and linguistic.
 
"Indians" were also pissed at Christopher Columbus by calling them the wrong race thinking that he found an alternate route to south east Asia. The Chinese claim that they found America first because they walked across the continents when it was still connected and thus "Indians" should have Chinese ancestry. That kind of explained the Casino businesses. "Indians" prefer to be called Native Americans and never ever considered English as their language. It reminds them of the early slavery. Their tribal languages are still being spoken today.

songkou said:
I also heard that Indian claims that their English accent is more original than British or American.
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I think you've made the same mistake Christopher Columbus had made, in reverse. Or maybe you're comparing Taiwanese to Native Americans, which, I think, there is no comparison.
irvinehomeshopper said:
"Indians" were also pissed at Christopher Columbus by calling them the wrong race thinking that he found an alternate route to south east Asia. The Chinese claim that they found America first because they walked across the continents when it was still connected and thus "Indians" should have Chinese ancestry. That kind of explained the Casino businesses. "Indians" prefer to be called Native Americans and never ever considered English as their language. It reminds them of the early slavery. Their tribal languages are still being spoken today.

songkou said:
I also heard that Indian claims that their English accent is more original than British or American.
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I don't get this. Originally they were called Formosans until 1949 the island formally called Taiwan when shipload of the KMT supporters left China and formed the Republic of China. Mandarin was originated in the mainland and introduced to Taiwan and the language was beautiful and poetic. Mao ruined it by annunciating heavy D,G,J,Q,X accents and simplifying the characters. The Mandarin spoken in China today is different from the one in Taiwan.

songkou said:
I think you've made the same mistake Christopher Columbus had made, in reverse. Or maybe you're comparing Taiwanese to Native Americans, which, I think, there is no comparison.
irvinehomeshopper said:
"Indians" were also pissed at Christopher Columbus by calling them the wrong race thinking that he found an alternate route to south east Asia. The Chinese claim that they found America first because they walked across the continents when it was still connected and thus "Indians" should have Chinese ancestry. That kind of explained the Casino businesses. "Indians" prefer to be called Native Americans and never ever considered English as their language. It reminds them of the early slavery. Their tribal languages are still being spoken today.

songkou said:
I also heard that Indian claims that their English accent is more original than British or American.
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wut? screw taiwan... colloquially in mi-nan (taiwanese) it means the "bay/island/peninsula" to "stay/die"... i prefer my island to be called dongning... fuck the dutch, the japs, the kmt!! fan qing fu ming all the way!!

long live koxinga~~ :D
 
we need to crush them taiwan aborigines... they dont even provide us with casinos like pechanga n shit... n we have to spend tons of money to build our own in matsu island... HEATHENS i tell you... (and their language is definitely not "beautiful and poetic") LOL...

actually taiwan mandarin is kinda flat and monotonous... and when we speak taiwanese, our convo sounds like we are arguing/fighting... although not as "bad" as cantonese but haha... i think the "beautiful and poetic" mandarin ur referring to is like the peking opera style mandarin... but thats not a daily language man, thats more like old english or Shakespearean english is to modern day english...

i learned traditional characters while growing up, but i dont recall it being that hard for me to get used to simplified characters... most of it came naturally cause they looked similar... and speaking to the locals was never an issue (ppl all over the world will always have regional accents whether it is chinese, english or what nots)... i think u give mao a little too much credit in how much he actually changed... albeit if someone learned simplified first, they might have a harder time learning traditional... but honestly, its not as hard or different as u make it seem...
 
oh no u didnt...

dont make me deck out with the singaporean mandarin... i ruv singapora~ lah~


irvinehomeowner said:
Mandarin snobbery... TI is awesome.

"I say my Xs softer than you!"
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world chaos, your trying to spell Mandarin in English characters makes me all not figuring out what them mean.

And to irvinehomeowner, your assessment of the Mandarin is all getting back-ward, man.  Your resentment towards Chinese/Mandarin seems to tell you're part of "Green Party" in Taiwan.  But Green Party don't approve of Mandarin totally, let alone appreciating its beauty and poetic.  So you got me confused too.
 
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