What I Learned in School Today (ok, so it was yesterday...)

I learned that when the Korean alphabet was designed (in the 1950's I beleive?), they designed the "letters" to be graphical representations of the mouthshapes of the sounds that they represented.


Click here to see the website I got this from.
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I learned that there are 509 languages spoken in Nigeria. The education system is set up so that the first language of instruction is the local mother tounge, then they begin to learn English in primary school, in secondary school they learn their mother tounge, English, and one of the three larger national languages (Hausa, Yoruba, Adamawa). Some also learn French or Arabic. But there is no real unifying language. English is the official language of government, and it is taught in school through high school, but because only about 50% of the population even goes to school, not even English is spoken widely enough to make it a common language. So how to Nigerians in the south talk to those in the north? Who knows...
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Old Chinese movies from the 1930's suck. Our Chinese teacher sucks. CU's Chinese department as a whole pretty much sucks.