now for my $.02:
I’m taiwanese-american. trilingual. and DAM* if it isn’t hard to learn new languages! Dave, i feel for you, i really do. It’s bad enough for me, coming from an all-taiwanese family that taught me rudimentary (and slightly helpful) chinese, but for a born and bred american who spent his/her entire, birth-to-adulthood life immersed in english, it would be horrendous. and vice versa. if some immigrant who spent his/her birth-to-adulthood life in his/her native country, speaking only one language, english would be just as bad. my little sister was only one year old when we moved to taiwan, so she was brought up in an almost all-chinese environment. my family and i were hard-pressed to teach her all the grammar and spelling of english. she still doesn’t completely get it, and we’ve been working on her for years! I have some classmates in my bilingual school who are the “best” english speakers, readers, and writers from other, monolingual (chinese only) schools, and they… well, lets just say that The Great Gazoo wouldn’t be letting them into america for quite a while.
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anyone here from taiwan or china? other than Dave, of course. if so, let me know, maybe we’re in the same school
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