Chinese is The Third Most Spoken Language in NYC
In New York City, after English and Spanish, Chinese is the third most spoken language. At Claremont Preparatory School in Lower Manhattan, 5th grade students are required to take the most popular dialect of Chinese “Mandarin”, only if the student wants to continue with the Chinese. Headmaster of Claremont school, Irwin Shlachter said “It has been a huge success, more than 60 percent of our fifth grade students continue on with Mandarin when it comes to the time to choose a language.” Shlachter also said “Americans are traditionally comfortable speaking only one language, and we are changing that, it is our job as educators to prepare this generation of young people for the global community of the future.” A number of people are interested in learning Chinese for different reasons like business, travel, education and the most interesting reason is people love the culture and want to be part of it. Shlachter said that learning Chinese is not at all difficult and you will get the tones if you practice for thirty minutes daily.
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A German court found eighteen years young man guilty for provocation related to a racist attack against a group of Indian people that injured 14 people in the eastern German state of Saxony. This man was ordered to pay 600 euros to an association for the protection of kids. The incident has generated anger in Germany when photos of the injured Indians were seen on the front pages of all major media in the country. throughout the proceedings, the defendant admitted to shouting racist slogans as a festival in the town of Mügeln was drawing to a close A crowd of about 50 people chased eight Indians across a street after an incident on a dance floor set up on the town square. They took refuge in a pizzeria. Prosecutors said they had found enough evidence to charge four Germans.
Juan Luis Conde, a Spanish philologist says a relationship may be between a parent and a child, a man and a woman, or an employer and an employee. It can be among friends or members of a group. According to him language arbitrates between power and subordination. Power is an imbalance, which can be obvious as in a master-slave relationship, when the subordinate is unaware of his or her position of disadvantage. The language we use is a basic instrument to build relationships; the very fabric of interpersonal life whether these are sentimental, industrial, or generational. The English Philosopher J. L. Austin reminds us, we use words not only to make true or false judgements, but also to make things.
Japan’s Ambassador said to Pakistan Seiji Kojima “Learning a foreign language is more than mastering the spoken part of it, as it helps people understand a different culture.” Kojima, who was chief guest on the occasion of Japanese language speech contest placed at the National University of Modern Languages. In the contest, there were eight students who participated and delivered a detailed and very well-prepared speech. Kojima said that a Japanese Language Proficiency Test will be placed again at NUML with the cooperation of NUML, MEXT Alumni Association of Pakistan and the Embassy of Japan in Pakistan. Kojima also made an admiring comment on the varsity’s Japanese Language Department on maintaining the standard. Kojima was very happy with the professors and staff members of the Japanese Language Department for their heartily contribution and efforts to make Pakistani citizens, learn Japanese language.The prizes were distributed by the Ambassador Seiji Kojima, 1st prize was given to Muhammad Shahab Aslam, 2nd to Muhammad Imran Yousaf and 3ed to Attaullah Sajjad in the speech contest.
Fifty five students won prize for their speaking and performance abilities
