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Why study Chinese?
While I was studying Chinese characters, as I often do everyday, one question starts playing over and over in my mind: Why study Chinese?
I must admit I like Chinese language very much, I am also very enthusiastic about learning Chinese's culture and I think I'm doing it right so far, but when I start to think about the usefulness of Chinese Language in my daily life my head hits against the wall.
To be honest the reason behind I started to learn Mandarin is because I wanted to impress people, but now when I speak something in Chinese they just look at me as if I've lost my mind.
Well, I thought, I can get a better job in a multinational Company. But the language of business is money, not Mandarin. Only a small percentage of people currently speak Mandarin, even in the business world. This has not prevented us from doing business with China. Besides I am not the owner of a big Company and I don't need a Job.
So OK, I said, I can use Mandarin to meet a beautiful Chinese woman and why not to find the love of my life! But most Chinese girls don't date foreigners!
Besides all of that I'm still learning Mandarin, it is all about faith for now.
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Love? No, Thanks!
Love? No, thanks!
Since nobody could give me a satisfactory answer about what is love, I decided to do a deep research about the meaning of love. I searched in a bunch of Psychology books, Religious books, Scientific books and I
was still blank. And suddenly when I was thinking to abort the mission, an old book of latin etymology appeared on my screen, as you can guess I looked for the origins of the word "Love". Here is what I found.
"Love" (Amar in Spanish) comes from the latin word "Amær" that means "Taking control of..." or "Conquered". So when someone says "I love her - or - I love him" what it is really saying is "I am... taking control of... her or him".That make sense when we think in the Spanish word "Amo" (slave owner). It was usual from native prehispanic slaves to refer to his owner like "Amo" (The person who took control of them).
And that is not all, the etymology of the name "America" is from the latin "Amæri", plural of the verb to love. Or as we said before "Taking control of them" or "Conquered People". Originally the word was "Amæriarum". Two words "Amæri = Conquered people" and "Arum = Ring, Group of...", so the Spanish Kingdom put this name to the new conquered continent. It seems to me the most obvious approach instead of the Amerigo Vespucio thing...
Nowadays, of course, those words have a completely different meaning, what really matters is that my question about Love has a closest answer,and at least I have the certainty that Love IS NOT something that I need in order to have a wonderful life experience.
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Everything starts here.
I´m learning both English and Chinese language. Someday, not so far, I can see me talking fluently with many Chinese and American people, reading Chinese ancient books and "texting" a lot through social media. So Italki is a good place to start. I was very happy when somebody, I´m going to call it a friend, makes some corrections and comments about my entry. That makes me feel motivated too. I guess sometimes what I write needs an all brand new redaction from head to tail, if you think so feel free to do it if you have the time. What I´m gonna do is re-write my entry with the corrections you made. Thank you!
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Please give me a hand and correct this entry ;)
OK here i go. I though its gonna be easier to express what Im thinking just right know, but everything stays inside my mind and the words don´t come easy. Maybe I´ve just thinking in spanish yet. Well thats why I´m here, to learn from you.
Im very interesting in learning Chinese right now, I know it is one of the most difficult languages all over the world, but i wanna give it a try. I love all those signs and the way they capture in just one symbol one aspect of the nature. I also want to know the connection between language and thought in the Chinese people minds.
Well, I just love english too, thats a language that open the doors for me for a whole media world, i mean books, videos, etc.. and because of that my learning experience its bigger. Well thats it for Know, but I´ll be back soon ;)
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