haplesshobo
04-27-2005, 04:59 PM
somebody brought up the point that they view churches mainly as a focal point to socialize for a lot of koreans.
this brings up an interesting point if that's what my education in the chinese language when i was little was really all about instead.
i don't see how one can really learn a language by sitting in a classroom a couple of hours every saturday. especially, when i played ayso soccer, and would miss some of those classes to go to a game.
the funny thing is that there was another chinese school, that had their classes on sunday. but, my parents didn't want me to go to that since it was further away.
the more i think about it, it was all about my parents to meet other chinese parents. and, i'm angry. why make me miss saturday morning cartoons for that.
if it was really about learning chinese, the best way would have been to just rent some really interesting and cool chinese tv shows and movies with english subtitles. and, i woulld have learned more about how to speak and understand chinese.
after watching enough where i could understand chinese, you then swithc over to chines movies with only chinese writing underneath so i would pick out how to read chinese at that point.
this brings up an interesting point if that's what my education in the chinese language when i was little was really all about instead.
i don't see how one can really learn a language by sitting in a classroom a couple of hours every saturday. especially, when i played ayso soccer, and would miss some of those classes to go to a game.
the funny thing is that there was another chinese school, that had their classes on sunday. but, my parents didn't want me to go to that since it was further away.
the more i think about it, it was all about my parents to meet other chinese parents. and, i'm angry. why make me miss saturday morning cartoons for that.
if it was really about learning chinese, the best way would have been to just rent some really interesting and cool chinese tv shows and movies with english subtitles. and, i woulld have learned more about how to speak and understand chinese.
after watching enough where i could understand chinese, you then swithc over to chines movies with only chinese writing underneath so i would pick out how to read chinese at that point.