Lesson Comments

Endangered languages are not easily revitalized. There is a lovely short film on YouTube about a Chinese man learning Irish. Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom (Yu M... Read more

Thanks Connie! Funny how such a short answer actually can be so helpful. :-) /Johan Read more

连老师都收到红包吗！ 那，我干么在外国教书？！ 最好跑到亚洲开了一所学校吧！。。。哦，你们认为我明天叫学生这个风气会有一点利益冲突吗？ 谁不尴尬。。。有可能在这个情况之下最好参看今天的俗语：不怕一万，只怕万一。 万一学生告发我，老师就完了！！ Read more

What about increased financial incentives to prevent language allegiance shifts? I'm curious why wealthy Cantonese speakers don't just pony up the mo... Read more

I noticed that in the exercise protion of this lesson the speaker uses 玩儿 for dictation, however in the "correct" version of the sentence you miss poi... Read more

Just to complement the post. "Language Death" on Wikipedia : "The most common process leading to language death is one in which a community of spe... Read more

In general, languages die all the time. Every year a number of languages go extinct. Preservation efforts are made by many Western governments who in... Read more

Interesting comment and link,..thanks. There was an article in the newspaper here several months back about preserving Aboriginal languages here and h... Read more

I wonder how the Chinese government would respond to a project to preserve these dying "dialects". I wonder if they would try to prevent it. I'm t... Read more

Interesting comment..thanks. I didn't know that at all...only 8 left. That is surprising,esp in light of your other points. When you consider all thos... Read more