Daily Archives: March 19, 2009

More fascinating insights from phillyboy jdavis reporting from China!

Politics and Chinese Culture

In the year before I came to China, I was taking private Chinese lessons with a tutor for one hour a week for about 10 months. However, my tutoring essentially consisted, initially anyway, of my tutor teaching me how to pronounce Chinese words, making me write down lots of new words, and then telling me to memorize them. As things transpired, it turned into her telling me to memorize the words in the lessons in the book and her quizzing me on them during class. Continue reading →