Posted on 09/26/2015 8:27:23 PM PDT by traumer
President Obama announced a new initiative Friday aimed at having 1 million American schoolchildren learn Mandarin Chinese over the next five years.
The commitment by Obama would see the number of American students learning Mandarin quintuple; 200,000 students across the country are studying Mandarin today. Obama framed the initiative as a chance for the countries to learn more about each other.
"If our two countries are going to do more together around the world, then speaking each other's languages so we can understand each other is a good start," Obama said.
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Actually american children should be learning ENGLISH....
They don’t now..
Great....then they can avoid "Common Core" and go to Chinese schools and learn some real maths and science.
How about we teach them how to read and write English first.
Well, I guess we know where the next ‘refugees’ will be from...
Almost everyone who comes into the store in which I work can speak Chinese.........”Just Loo King”
Bingo!
It will be interesting to see how Mexicans will feel learning Chinese. Since they hate the White man and its language. Let’s see how they will handle this.
Absolutely. We’ll be doing the laundry and preparing takeout.
Wei shen-me?
{He finally admits he’s not going anywhere on Jan 20, 2017.}
One wonders. I have never been a conspiracy theorist, but
I’m starting to be. Maybe dementia is setting in? Or maybe
I’m just paying attention.
We have millions of Chinese immigrants who speak Chinese.
The saying in Silicon Valley is: 'Half the Chinese here are spying on us, the other half are spying on them!'
Not the people you want translating military intel during a war with China...
I like the wee little oranges, but that is as far as I’m going.
high level of English which took years, and you create irrational, dumb tribal minds, and we will have compliant “group thinkers” who will only do what the state tells them to do.
sounds like the current american education system.
Rather, I simply learned to design “Crows Cisterns” rather than Closed Systems.
lol all the while i thot there was something important to pallidating part numbers. oh it was validate the part numbers. Indians i worked with along time ago.
I’m surprised he didn’t again say Americans should learn Austrian.
Lord knows I do.
All of them that I've met, which is a fair number!
Raise your hand, everybody, if you give a darn for “what Odungo wants”. OK, count the hands after this sentence:
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