A blog about my year-long adventure here in Shanghai. My educ-ASIAN on everything Chinese.

Friday, September 29, 2006

Chinese Language


"When sophomore Scott Wilson thinks of his future as an international business lawyer, he sees it stamped "Made in China."

After all, about 1.3 billion people speak Chinese and the country's economy has been one of the fastest growing in the world in the last six years."


"He joins an estimated 30,000 other American teens studying Chinese - up six-fold from the estimated 5,000 who studied the language in 2000, according to the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages."


"Also, she said, the Chinese language "enhances learning of math and science."

Research supports the idea that studying Chinese and Japanese develops different parts of the brain, Sandoval said.

"Students must get their hands around something totally foreign," Sandoval said, referring to the Chinese and Japanese characters that are so different from the English alphabet.

"For some reason," she said, "having to utilize a new, different language forces you to use different parts of your brain."


- http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2006/sep/28/chinese-language-classes-popular-aps/


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