LA18 news reported that a 24-year-old Chinese American man tried to create a record of mastering Chinese in 3 months. This young man's name is Jason Gong; his father is Chinese. But he claims that his father had never taught him any Chinese when he was little, and his parents got divorced when he was 9. He also showed the reporters some proofs at the press conference yesterday that he has no level of Chinese at all-- a total beginner. His goal is to be able to read Chinese newspapers 3 months later.
He refused to reveal what his methodology would be in achieving this seemingly impossible mission. He said, he's afraid that people might copy his methods, and break his record before he can make it. But, he would be willing to tell the world 3 months later when he makes it.
Jason Gong also applied for Guinness world records. Let's wait and see...
Friday, April 4, 2008
Master Chinese in 3 months?
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Not only did his parents get divorced, but his father moved all the way from Virginia to California and they had an essentially nonexistent relationship until fairly recently. His mother does not speak Chinese (we both had to deal with being biracial, being raised by the Caucasian parent and having no ties to the other culture yet being discriminated against because of our skin color)and our high school only had French, Latin, and Spanish classes. The idea of someone learning something so quickly seemed as unbelievable to all of us as I'm sure it does to total strangers when we first heard about this, but I know that he didn't read Chinese before, so if he reads it now, something has happened since he moved to LA earlier this year.
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