Will Speak Chinese For Food – Learning Chinese
www.stillgoingnative.com — From Tony at 'Still Going Native': 'An economics professor of mine once noted that many people interested in ‘helping the developing world’ study language, when a much more effective strategy would be to learn a hard skill...As for myself, I can rapidly assemble a small cadre of highly credentialed people who can explain what the socio-legal-economic-ethnographic effects (and post-modernist implications) of fixing that broken water pipe in rural China are; there’s a snowball’s chance in hell that we’d be able to deal with the problem ourselves.'
