subject: I Want To Understand Chinese [print this page] That's correct! I want to understand ChineseThat's correct! I want to understand Chinese. Chinese is the fresh language of today's globe. I look around and I can see where all this is heading. Our world is expanding at such a worrying rate and the world economy is joining at an unforgiving speed, I believe we will all be speaking Chinese and Spanish together with English. We are fast nearing a multi-lingual world. We will not need subtitles on films, or an interpreter to hustle us via a Chinese menu, or an old globe master to clarify the Chinese character's meaning graced on a wall, if we just learn Chinese.
If I learn Chinese, I can talk with them for hours on end regarding the ways of their culture and how to fung shui my house so I can find much more tranquility. I could listen to great tales of historical cultural heroes and think about their brilliant minds, wishing one for my following muse. If I understand Chinese, I could scold the angry driver next to me or my children for not picking up their clothes. If I understand Chinese, I could impress my friends and colleagues with my superior control of a greater learning that they don't have. I could travel to the Asian world and madly shop amongst them, purchasing things I truly do not require, but pleased for the engaging conversation between us.
If I learn Chinese, I will get a much better job, a "worldly" career...my employer will discover me essential and motivate me with travel and great expense account. I will return to take his job, providing me a bigger expense account. If I learn Chinese, I could be an emerging artist in ancient Chinese calligraphy, brush stroking my way to a greater religious calling, even if only a tattoo artist, my work would live on forever.
If I learn Chinese, I could reign in reading the Chinese news to all sitting around me, mesmerized by my fluency. I could also impress them with a follow up performance with a 9...10...even 15 course Chinese meal. If I understand Chinese, I would name all my pets (maybe even my children) with names 3 words long carrying such deep, soulful and eternal meanings.
If I learn Chinese, I could actively volunteer in Asian countries and become an important liaison between the eastern and western worlds. I would do excellent works in missionary arenas exactly where so little help exists now. I know I could make the globe a much better place. If I learn Chinese, I would make it benefit all, so not only would the globe economy be merging as expected, but so would the hearts. Simply because, If I learned Chinese, I'd want for it to mean much more than just a command of a second language, I would wish to use it as a tool for connecting us all together other than just economy, or a passing by of another. In today's globe, if I learn Chinese...I could stop the hurry, if only to say, "hello".
