[i18n-discuss] Best way to learn a foreign language

[W. Wayne Liauh]

As mentioned by one of Sun's bloggers, Fortune magazine's Geoff Colvin agreed with economist Angus Maddison that by 2015, China will become the largest economy, supplanting the USA, of the world. That's 7 years from now.

http://blogs.sun.com/syw/entry/you_have_7_years_to

The best way to learn a language is to immerse oneself into that language environment.  No exception for learning Chinese.

Nowadays, what's the better way to learn Chinese than to boot into a Chinese-localized environment, doing your web browsing, emailing, wordprocessing, etc., in an environment surrounded with Chinese icons?

To do that in Windows, you have to spend thousands of dollars to get a new computer, AND purchase all the necessary software.

But with the OpenSolaris LiveCD:

https://www2.sun.de/dct/forms/reg_us_2307_228_0.jsp

it's free, and you can log into both the Chinese and English (& Japanese, and Korean, . . .) windows on the same machine!  And you don't even have to leave your home or office.
 
 
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