Hilarious/scary Chinese-->English Learning Aid...sm

Since language is "our thing" - and particularly ESL - I thought you'd like to get a head start on what to expect from future Chinese dictators.  Get a load of these Chinese-to-English learning blocks (I'll post this as an URL you can paste into your browser since some are reluctant to click on links):

http://peer-see.com/blog/chumble-spuzz/2006/07/09/

I suggest we practice by forming sentences, such as:  "The patient is a construction worker who was operating a navvy when a crustacea flew into the cab.  Mistaking it for a darning needle, he swatted at the crustacea and lost control of the navvy, which crashed.  Unfortunately, he was not wearing a safety armet at the time and was knocked unconscious..."

• Hilarious/scary Chinese-->English Learning Aid...sm - TechSupport
  • Thanks!! I got a kick out of it :) - Kendra
  • ...and the clickable link for those who prefer that. sm - TechSupport

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Why doesn't our country do more about this crap!  Lead in toys, poisonous drywall, and I once saw a Chinese business woman on TV bragging about her drug business ... how she uses ingredients other than the real drug (often poisonous to humans) and is getting rich on this business.  She said she sells to many other countries with the U.S. being a top buyer.  WHAT?!  This woman was literally bragging on TV about it.

I don't understand why we haven't done something MAJOR about this. 

I never go to the doc or get RXs, but does anyone know if one can tell if they came from China? 

If so, how did you go about figuring out how to teach them? 

Our daughter was in public school but we moved her to a private school at the first of the year because she was very behind in the public school and they refused to give her extra services.  Since moving her to the private school we have found out that she does have learning disabilities, which means that she would need to return to the public school since the private school doesn't have special education services available.  She has learned a lot while in the private school because of the small class size and a teacher that spends a lot of time with her and we know that she has learned much more than she would have if she had stayed in the public school.

Now the public school is wanting her to repeat the grade when she returns there in the fall.  Yes, the very same public school that refused to help us before and actually blew off my questioning if she had learning disabilities now only has a "repeat the grade" attitude.  The problem I have with that is that she has proven on testing done at Sylvan learning center that she is academically half way into her current grade, so if she repeats the grade she will be bored for half of the year because she knows that material.

Therefore we're considering home schooling but don't know how effective this might be with her learning disabilities.  Does anyone else do this?  How did you find out about the techniques you needed to teach your child so that they could learn?  We know that she has an average IQ so that's not a problem - it's just getting her brain to process the information correctly.

Thank you.

were involved with ball playing by women too.....here's a link for their culture and their sports history....they were always thought of as weak but they were not weak....

http://chineseculture.about.com/library/weekly/aa032301a.htm

I save every packet of sauces from my Chinese food delivery.  Whether I'm cooking bar-b-q (ribs, chicken, pork chops, etc), or baking whatever or grilling, broiling, or boiling, I can usually throw together something from those packets depending on what flavoring I want to achieve.  My dad taught me not to look at recipes, but just to think about how flavors work together and trust your guts.  That doesn't work for everyone, but I've made some delicious dinners when I didn't have any other seasonings in the house but those Chinese food packets :)  Try to remember to balance out a sweet with a sour (or salty) flavor.  I remember how I was horrified when he put cinnamin in a pot roast once, but it was the best roast I ever had.  He had been doing it for years...he just hid it from me.  Once I knew he used it, I enjoyed it more than I ever had!

And my husband is trying to tell me that means I already have everything.

Hmmm......

My spouse and I feel that if you are immigrating into the US, you need to speak English. Of course as an MT I do not like my work being threatened by India (I previously worked in bank customer service, and my company there outsourced 3000 jobs to India and laid off all the US CSRs). My spouse grew up in Detroit which is now classified as a" dead city" with the highest unemployment rate and some of the lowest house values in the nation due to outsourcing of the auto companies to Mexico and many auto parts and steel are now made in Asia.

However, we may even learn Spanish. He is retraining in Nursery and Greenhouse Management and it just makes sense as that will help him manage the laborers.  if he ever owns his own biz, we will insist on legitimate papers for every worker.

You can transcribe between two languages from home, just like you do MT from home. Spanish does not pay as much as, say, Arabic (a language I strongly wanted to learn) but there is more demand for it and it is easier to learn for an English speaker (and if we all get lucky, our overseas Middle East involvement will cease and there will be no more need for transcription of Arabic to English. Somehow I don't think we will get that lucky).

What gets me is people who move here and still do not speak the language after 5 or 10 years!!!

I would not even visit another country as a TOURIST without studying the language for months ahead of time if there was not a lot of English spoken there, and I would study some of the indigenous language anyway. It's just a sign of respect.

I think it is going to be to our benefit to be bilingual but I don't see us ever not having at least some ambivalence about the people we speak it to (but I think we will meet some good people as well).

That would make one heck of a driver's license picture!