You’ve gotta learn Chinese
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008I think Chinese people has finally conquered Flushing, NY. There are now Chinese(Mandarin) lessons being offered by the city to whoever is interested in learning.
Some highly amusing quotes from the article:
“I was born here,” said Ms. Garcia, who is 44. “Why should I learn their language?”
“Why do you say two words for ‘bladder’? I have one bladder! For one bladder it’s two words?”
“Mr. Henton asked Councilman Liu to sponsor the lessons last year during a community meeting at which most of the comments were made in Mandarin. He feels a responsibility for the classes’ success; on Tuesday nights, he calls 40 people just to remind them to come.”
To my knowledge, I didn’t know they host community meetings, in Chinese, here in the grand ol’ U. S. of A. — with a councilman. I guess there is a first for everything.
