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[JasperTeach]

Read this if you plan on learning Korean when you come to Korea, especially if you're American:

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/11/09/115-promising-to-learn-a-new-language/

[typo]

Waste of a few minutes. thanks for that

[Chambertin]

すみませんね。白人たちがも一回間違いしったんだ。Wir habt zehr problem mit dem fremdsprache lernen.

[uk27]

Non l'ho trovato molto interessante, pero grazie communque.

[toadhjo]

[toadhjo]

P.S. And yes, I do intend to learn Korean, thank you very much.

That said, my Japanese still needs some work too...まあぁ...

[Chambertin]

[Sector7G]

[World Traveler]

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2009/07/137_48728.html

[crossmr]

This is a good bit on learning japanese:
http://pepper.idge.net/japanese/

[toadhjo]

[herrdude]

Self-loathing diatribe.

A load of nonsense to paint a race with a broad stroke of lacking an intellectual capacity.

I highly recommend that the blogger read up on Gardner's multiple intelligences to better understand why some people perform better than others in second/foreign languages.

[Omkara]

What a poor article. . .white people this, white people that. . .as if there were some necessary relationship between genes and the acquisition of a foreign syntax.

I'm a white boy, and learned language for reasons other than guilt, all rooted in necessity or a desire to connect with my peers.

The adjective "white" was far over-used in the article. I couldn't take it seriously for the lack of categorical sophistication--as if the category "white people" has any real or clear meaning, except for poorly placed resentments, the mocking of some alien other, which has more subjective than objective significance.

It is kind of a 3rd graders color by number picture. Someone else gives the student a picture, and then the "artist" supplies the uninspired content or color.

Okay, thanks for letting me bitch away my crappy mood this morning. I needed that.

[ghw]

[JasperTeach]

[quote="Omkara"]
The adjective "white" was far over-used in the article. I couldn't take it seriously for the lack of categorical sophistication--as if the category "white people" has any real or clear meaning, except for poorly placed resentments, the mocking of some alien other, which has more subjective than objective significance.
[quote]

yup, you clearly missed the point.... it's humor!