City girl moves to the Chinese countryside.
Oh, the things she will learn.

Posts tagged "language"
The Dreaded Saturday Morning Ritual

The Dreaded Saturday Morning Ritual

It's Saturday morning in Rotterdam and I find myself at a place I once dreaded as a child: Chinese school.

Chinese school in China

A Newsweek article this month criticizes Chinese language programs for foreigners in China, describing a money-grabbing program based on old fashioned Confucius-style teaching methods (i.e. ME, teacher, YOU underling student), outdated textbooks and an emphasis on memorizing characters as opposed to practical conversation skills. False false false. I was one of the 100,000 foreigners to...