Today, while I was waiting in the 'Foreign Teachers' Lounge' (the school's photocopying/meeting room) of the school that I teach Grade 1 at on Friday afternoons (Grade 1 students, 1 class a week, Friday afternoon. You do the math on how much fun this is.), one of the Chinese English teachers came up to me and asked what the word was to describe the colors red, blue and yellow. Her electronic translator had told her it was '3 dollars colors' and she had the feeling that that was not correct. I explained the term primary colors and that orange, green and purple were considered 'secondary colors'. She went on to further explain that she was writing an article and asked if I would mind reading it and helping her with it. Thinking that it might be a one page article, I agreed.
She then brought out five, single spaced, 10 point font, pages of 'article'. I gritten my teeth and started to read.
"The so-called English open type teaching is extensively under the instruction which points in the modern science result system, information to talk about and control a theory, absorb various strength of concrete teaching method and be free from time, space and teaching material limit, the application of creation is at the English classroom teaching process.This kind of teaching method emphasizes to take student as center, from pay attention to a knowledge induction to pay attention to fulfillment ability development;From pay attention to education to change direction to pay attention to education process as a result, attain English classroom teaching thus of all-directions open."
After skimming the opening paragraph, I asked if she could e-mail it to me and I would be able to send it back to her by the end of the weekend.
This comes after I spent most of last week editing a Chinese friend's 'thesis' (12 page paper) on male-relationships in The Kite Runner. Apparently I have a sign on my back that I haven't noticed which states how much I love editing Chinglish.
Gah!
Friday, May 25, 2007
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China is on my list of places to explore.
Oh my gosh, this happened to me too! I got roped into editing 38 papers on "how men are objectified by society." No, seriously...
Agreed. Men right now are being objectified in the same way women have been for ages. If you look at the average sitcom, television show, etc., most of the time the dominant male figure is a retard: Home Improvement you have Tim, the idiot father governed by his wife and laughed at by his kids, the simpsons has homer the moron and marge and lisa taking care of his messes (not to mention lisa and bart), Everybody loves raymond (I fucking hate raymond) has ray the moron and his wife straightening him out as well. Anyway, the point is, other cultures are certainly an adventure, aren't they? I am so jealous that you live in China, Sara. That, and I miss you.
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