ABC News Article - "As China Grows, More U.S. Schools Teach Mandarin"
My first reaction to this article was, "that's awesome!" Foreign language education in this country is woefully undervalued and as a result Americans are some of the most chronically monolingual people in the world, so ANY news about more foreign language education in public schools should be good news. But the fact that Chinese is making it into more pubic schools and that some would even REQUIRE it is pretty cool.
But then my second thought was, "damn, that means more competition." Not very many Americans learn Chinese which means that I am in kind of an exclusive group (and a smaller hiring pool!). But if kids in Massachusets are learning Chinese from kindergarten, how will I be able to compete?! Luckily I am more or less ahead of the curve, so by the time those little snotheads finish college and move out into the big bad world, I will already be a veteran and hopefully will have learned another language or two by then. Mwahahah!
So I say, Let them learn Chinese if they must.
2 comments:
This way, in a few years when you are a rich and powerful businessman, you will be able to hire lackeys that can speak Chinese to do your dirty work....
Dude! My cousins are 4 years old and already enrolled in Chinese at a private school in Minnesota. Chinese is my thing! I can't believe that they're going to be better than me, those little jerks.
Post a Comment