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Originally Posted by RonBee I am trying to learn Spanish, but the progress is slow. (There are a great many immigrants from Latin America living in the Charlotte area, especially from Mexico and Honduras.)  |
At the same token, here in Canada we have our entire banking, online government pages, government voice mail, etc all done in both English and French. Everything you buy - from a toothbrush to a barbeque- has a bilingual labelling. We have plenty of French Immersion schools where French is taught from kintergarten on. It's an excellent idea - by the time kids graduate, they are perfectly fluent in French.
Everything aside though, I think Chinese is a
very difficult language. Being a tone language, one would have to play with different pitch patterns to be understood by others. I don't think I could ever do that...
