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Title: China funds B.C. school program
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: wildrosegirl
Date: 2010-09-17 08:22:17
Canadian

[saturn_656]

Foreign governments funding public school programs?

Kinda sketchy.

[Brenda]

If you want Mandarin being taught in BC classrooms, fine. But you can't have that paid for by another country... I dunno... Scary...

[bootlegga]

Why can't BC fund it's own Mandarin programs? Alberta does...

[Freakinoldguy]

Somebody's got to pay for the Program since Gordo blew all our money on Olympics, Bridges and Roof's.

Besides it's a good plan to have Canadian kids who speak Mandarin, that way they can get jobs as domestics when we finally give our country completely away.

[kenmore]

Shades of things to come? Give them an inch they will take a mile as they say.

[Freakinoldguy]

Here's some intersting facts from Newsweek about english being spoken in China.

$1:

Next door, mighty China itself seems to have caught the English bug. Beijing guesses that more than 40 million non-native speakers now study Mandarin worldwide. But that pales next to the number of those learning English. In China alone, some 175 million people are now studying English in the formal education system. And an estimated 2 billion people will be studying it by 2010, according to a British Council report last year. "The impression is that 'Mandarin fever' is rampant and spreading, but a close look shows this is an exaggeration," says Stephen Krashen, a second-language-acquisition expert at the University of Southern California. "The dominance of English as an international language is growing."

Link:http://www.newsweek.com/2007/08/15/english-for-everyone.html

So, if we're spending the Chinese Governments hard earned money to learn Mandarin and English is going to be the language of choice, even for the Chinese, the question becomes why, or maybe it should be, what's the ulterior motive?

[Dragom]

Apparently you can make good money teaching English in China.

But relevantly if they can speak broken English and we can speak broken Mandarin then we can you know get along and stuff.

And China likes Canada.

Mainly cause of this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Bethune

One of those Canadian Communist Heroes we hear so much about in school.

[IGA]

They should have to pay for the operating costs of UBC too.

[ShepherdsDog]

$1:

Apparently you can make good money teaching English in China.

You can make good money in China by Chinese standards.

Japan pays a good wage by NA standards, as does Korea. Taiwan pays decent too, if you're lucky enough to teach in public schools and universities. Most of theose who do Kindy and buxiban(cram school) work, supplement their pay with privates(one on one) which can be very lucrative. A friend of mine who teaches little kids and privates makes about 50K a year(take home), but he also works part time on saturdays. My wife and I make slightly more each, but I teach in a couple universities and concentrate on adult privates, while she teaches in the public system and only does one private class for the Taiwanese English teachers(actually an oxymoron). However, two kids don't make it seem like much money at all.

The real money in EFL continues to be the ME, especially the UAE and Saudi.

[BartSimpson]

kenmore kenmore:

Shades of things to come? Give them an inch they will take a mile as they say.

China has already expressed territorial and trade claims upon Vancouver due to the large Chinese population present there so it's only natural that they should want to influence education. What better way to get subsequent generations to accede to Chinese control of Vancouver than to teach them that it's the right thing to do?

[ShepherdsDog]

mandarin will never rival English, as even in China, it's not the everyday language of the people. For non Chinese speakers, there is also the trouble with Chinese being a tonal language. What we perceive as the same word can mean four different things. Lan, depeding on the tone can mean shitty or blue, Tang can be soup or sugar Shway jow can mean sleep or dumplings. Those ones I know for sure. Tones are something you can only 'master' if you learn them at a really young age.

Our youngest is fluent in Mandarin, albeit with a Taiwanese accent, because his nanny only spoke Mandarin and his daycare was the same. He's in Grade One now and can read just as much Mandarin as a local kid at that age. He's like the children of immigrants at home, as he only speaks English with us and our English speaking friends, everything else is Manadarin with a smattering of Fokkien(Taiwanese/Fujianese) thrown in.

[PostFactum]

Is China conquering Canada?

[martin14]

yes.

without a fight, cause we are stupid weak pussies.


We need more Ukranians to make a revolt.

[ShepherdsDog]

In Dauphin, they have a Ukrainian Immersion school along with a French immersion school.