{"id":27923,"date":"2007-02-21T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/02\/21\/mandarin-chinese-gaining-popularity-in-public-schools\/"},"modified":"2007-02-21T10:00:59","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T10:00:59","slug":"mandarin-chinese-gaining-popularity-in-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070221-59\/?p=27923","title":{"rendered":"Mandarin Chinese gaining popularity in public schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> NPR reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4628444\"> Mandarin Chinese is gaining popularity in public schools<\/a>. (But please oh please don&#8217;t take pronunciations lessons from the student at time code 3:25. His first tone was clearly a second&mdash;falling victim to the classic mistake of applying English tone shaping to Chinese syllables.) On the other hand, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5191835\"> some of those students who chose to study Mandarin Chinese didn&#8217;t, um, do their homework<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> Some say they are here by accident or because they thought it would be an easy &#8220;A&#8221;. Oops. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I do admire the argument of one parent against learning Chinese: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> Everybody is going to speak English. I&#8217;m sure the Chinese all speak English. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> That&#8217;s right. The Chinese all speak English. The accent? That&#8217;s just an affectation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR reports that Mandarin Chinese is gaining popularity in public schools. (But please oh please don&#8217;t take pronunciations lessons from the student at time code 3:25. His first tone was clearly a second&mdash;falling victim to the classic mistake of applying English tone shaping to Chinese syllables.) On the other hand, some of those students who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-27923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>NPR reports that Mandarin Chinese is gaining popularity in public schools. (But please oh please don&#8217;t take pronunciations lessons from the student at time code 3:25. His first tone was clearly a second&mdash;falling victim to the classic mistake of applying English tone shaping to Chinese syllables.) On the other hand, some of those students who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}