Wednesday, March 7, 2007

A new world of Polyglots使用多种语言的人





I help people in China, mostly managers how to break the barrier of languages, how not to be ashamed of their accents, I tell them accents are the flowers of the garden of languages.Even smallest countries have many kind of accents.I lived in Switzerland some villages not only have their own accents they also have their own words.
I also explain some studies made by English Scientists that they think soon the majority English Speaking people will be those who are not Native English Speakers and there is also a strong possibility that non native English Speakers will give the language new direction.

Than I think about the Wall Street Lawyer who thinks that this century will be The Century of China and decide to hire a Chinese Nanny to care about his 3 years old daughter.

I think about the Chinese Father who thinks that he was deprived of the chance of Learning a Second Foreign Language in his childhood and he transfer this missing part of him,to his daughter.

The world is braking the borders of Language and hopefully the geographical borders will also let the people move and enrich our world in a new age of increasing polyglots.

And than it will not be difficult to imagine a new world were people will speak several languages
and this will improve the life of entire humanity


Read this

So Mandarin-speaking nannies are the new hotness in the US, according to the BBC, as parents try to give their kids an early start on the language of their future overlords [or, if you're a nationalistic optimist, their future joint venture partners.]

One nanny supposedly had a bidding war, and got a $70,000 salary out of it. Yikes. Some money-saving tips:
- Be flexible on the nanny's accent [I'm sure Fujianese speakers command much less.]
- Make sure your nanny does the whole diaper-free thing; that'll save you a couple grand right there.
- Try hiring someone from one of those Chinese-run taco places; they'll ask for less, plus they'll teach your kid Spanish, too, which was the last hot nanny language.

The nanny placement consultant is skeptical, though: "It's almost like when everybody had the Pomeranians [dogs] and the Pocketbooks [computers] a few years ago. Maybe it will last but I don't think so."

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