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Learning Chinese via Fortune Cookie
April 4th, 2009 | No Comments
I was surfing through my friend’s Facebook profile and noticed that he has the fortune from a fortune cookie posted on it. Many of today’s fortune cookies not only give you non-fortunes (ie. “Money makes one wealthy.” Duh?), but they have branched out into teaching Chinese.


American-born Taiwanese girl who married a Japanese guy. And who forgot about six years' of Spanish grammar and most of the vocab.
Korean-American girl who blogs under a Spanish pseudonym because being culturally confusing is fun. Native speakers say that she has outstanding Spanish (which is a definite compliment) and outstanding German (which is most assuredly not).
American-born, Taiwanese guy who took five semesters worth of German and ended up with a major in Linguistics.