Comments on: I am not in China. Not really.

By: Uncle in the Western media, an exercise in dissonance « kapookababy

Uncle in the Western media, an exercise in dissonance « kapookababy — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:49:05 +0000

[...] morning I returned to Uncle, for a look at Postcolonial criticism, and again it struck me, how strange to be learning about [...]

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:30:05 +0000

It seems people learning a language go through these cycles – periods of intense, manic desire to join the language community, immerse themselves and absorb as much as possible – followed by some level of disillusionment at the difficulties or perceived slowness or lack of progress – followed by eventual accommodation with realities and a coming to terms with the imperfect and incremental process of Unclese language acquisition. Saw it in Taiwan with the foreigner language learners. And me with Japanese…

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:57:34 +0000

I find it kind of intimidating that you say the future of humanity is in Uncle – because it seems like such a faceless culture. Perhaps I only feel this way because it’s so at odds with Western society?

By: Kylie

Kylie — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:47:07 +0000

The perennial problem of learning a new language through immersion method! I find the best way is to date a local, so go for Han Han