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- 时间: 2006-12-26 20:52楼主即使是为自己做广告，也是光明正大的。
任何人为自己的事业、商业吆喝都是正当的，不吆喝别人怎么能够充分地知道？
我们成年华人再去新学法语看来是不可能的了，请大家不要拿自己的脑袋去碰这个石头。不是危言耸听，有些新移民病急乱投医，企图去走这个shortcut。告诉你，没那么容易的，到头来搞得上不着天、下不到地，倍儿尴尬。能把中文英文把住就了不起了。
但是，小毛孩就不同了。还真的看见过不少二代华人把法语学得很好的，在法语学校或法语班占据前茅的也不少，证明了，从小孩学起还是有可能、有前途的。不说十之八九，就是有十之一二就是一个伟大的胜利了。说句横向比较的话，没必要那么多人去学钢琴（学点音乐跟学钢琴要区别开来），把一小半学钢琴的人的时间和投资改到学法语，可能会更好（这里指对社会服务，及对自己求职而言）。 -
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- 时间: 2006-12-26 22:59Adults can learn languages. We have all kinds of adults lined up to start studying Italian, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese with The Linguist. Assimil sells language learning book and CD sets for 65 languages. I am working on Russian and Korean right now.
Language learning can be fun for people of all ages if it is done right. It is even good for your brain. It may even be good for your sex life, but no guarantees.
Some references:
1) Learning a second language "boosts" brain-power, scientists believe.
Researchers from University College London studied the brains of 105 people - 80 of whom were bilingual.
They found learning other languages altered grey matter - the area of the brain which processes information - in the same way exercise builds muscles.
2) Adults Can Be Retrained To Learn Second Languages More Easily, Says UCL Scientist
Science Daily — Our ability to hear and understand a second language becomes more and more difficult with age, but the adult brain can be retrained to pick up foreign sounds more easily again. This finding, reported by Dr Paul Iverson of the UCL Centre for Human Communication, at the "Plasticity in Speech Perception 2005" workshop - builds on an important new theory that the difficulties we have with learning languages in later life are not biological and that, given the right stimulus, the brain can be retrained.
3) The Older Language Learner
by Mary Schleppegrell
Contrary to popular stereotypes, older adults can be good foreign language learners. The difficulties older adults often experience in the language classroom can be overcome through adjustments in the learning environment, attention to affective factors, and use of effective teaching methods.• there is no decline in the ability to learn as people get older;
• except for minor considerations such as hearing and vision loss, the age of the adult learner is not a major factor in language acquisition;
• the context in which adults learn is the major influence on their ability to acquire the new language.
The greatest obstacle to older adult language learning is the doubt--in the minds of both learner and teacher--that older adults can learn a new language.
Studies comparing the rate of second language acquisition in children and adults have shown that although children may have an advantage in achieving native-like fluency in the long run, adults actually learn languages more quickly than children in the early stages (Krashen, Long, and Scarcella, 1979). These studies indicate that attaining a working ability to communicate in a new language may actually be easier and more rapid for the adult than for the child.
Studies on aging have demonstrated that learning ability does not decline with age. If older people remain healthy, their intellectual abilities and skills do not decline (Ostwald and Williams, 1981). Adults learn differently from children, but no age-related differences in learning ability have been demonstrated for adults of different ages.
Especially in the areas of vocabulary and language structure, adults are actually better language learners than children. Older learners have more highly developed cognitive systems, are able to make higher order associations and generalizations, and can integrate new language input with their already substantial learning experience. They also rely on long-term memory rather than the short-term memory function used by children and younger learners for rote learning. -
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- 时间: 2006-12-27 00:52Every immigrant group wants their children to speak the ancestral language. This is not specific to Chinese people. Parents have the right to try to encourage their children to learn it, and the presence of relatives, here or in the old country, who do not speak English, may be their greatest ally.
How many of the next generation do learn it, and whether they pass it on to the following generation, will depend on many factors, especially the interest of the learner.
There are many languages in the world. The more languages we learn the more we undestand of the world. Learning French does not prevent a person from learning Chinese, nor vice versa, and in fact it may even help.
Ultimately it will not be the parents, but the children who decide as they grow up, which languages they will learn and use. -
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- 时间: 2006-12-27 10:24
mon ka 写道:希伯来语怎样复活的?
民族的自强决定了文化的走向! not kids but a nation
How many people in Canada speak Hebrew? I doubt if Israeli immigrants to Canada will be able to maintain Hebrew for more than one generation, except to a limited extent in religious observances.
Mandarin has a better chance of surviving in Canada since it is an important world language. Canadians, including second or third generation Chinese will learn Mandarin mostly because of its increasing usefulness, not as a "patriotic duty to the Chinese nation". Those want to be patriotic to the Chinese nation will move to China. Those Canadian Jews who see Israel as their homeland will learn Hebrew and move to Israel. They will be a small minority. -
- 时间: 2006-12-28 11:48 本那比经略 写道:
同意老史的观点。语言就是工具，有太强的功利性。
据卑诗省府一份内部报告指出，如果各项条件配合，卑省可望发挥加拿大亚太门户枢纽优势，进而跃居北美的亚太经贸及文化之都，预测2020年时将为全国创造50万个就业机会，及每年高达2300亿元贸易商机。
卑诗亚太门户策略如果落实，不仅刺激创造就业动力，而且对贸易和投资也带来立竿见影的效应。报告预估，2020年的时候加国从亚太贸易中获益的总值将达2300亿元，其中卑诗省独占760亿元。
From this view, chinese is a better choice in BC compare to other area like Quebec
加拿大华人学法语漫谈（－）
既不是英语也不是法语，也不是汉语。家长们只好移民去日本了