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1. December 26, 2008, 13 word roots, studying time — 30 minutes.
2. December 27, 28 word roots, studying time — one hour.
3. December 28, 39 word roots, studying time — one hour.
4. December 29, 80 word roots, studying time — 90 minutes.
5. December 30, no study.
6. December 31, 60 word roots, studying time — one hour.
7. January 1, 2009, 30 sound modules, studying time — one hour.
8. January 2, 30 sound modules, studying time — one hour.
9. January 3, review and test, time — 90 minutes.

After only 8.5 hours of study, she passed a word-writing test (copying 30 words). Her test sheet is attached below. They are difficult words even for a university student who finished 100 hours of Chinese course in an American university (see note below). In terms of our syllabus, the first segment is to learn the Chinese word form (in 30 hours, students should be able to duplicate any Chinese character with handwriting after glancing it for 10 seconds). As she only completed 1/4 of the segment one program, her test was copying the words, not dictating them. Yet, she only missed one stroke for two words . In fact, she should, now, be able to duplicate any word which has 10 strokes or less after glancing it for 10 seconds.

Note: There is a major difference between writing and drawing Chinese characters although they are ideographs. For writing, Chinese characters must be written in some kind of stroke sequence while drawing can often start from any part of the graph. For drawing those 30 test words correctly and quickly, it will be a major task even for a professor of physics. Those 30 test words are listed below. If you do not know how to write Chinese words, you can try to copy them yourself and make a comparison with Gab’s work. There is an easier task. Can you find out which two words are missing one stroke in Gab’s work? Furthermore, she finished the test in 20 minutes while her controlling of spacing and word roots proportion was needing more practices

Gab’s personal and contact information is available at: Department of Education of Kentucky

Capital Plaza Tower
500 Mero Street
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601

Anyone who is interested in knowing more about this amazing story (especially in terms of academic analysis), please contact the Department of Education of Kentucky.

2009 Linguistics Conference has two main themes:

1. Can a second language be learned with much less effort than a native learns it as his mother tongue?
   • How can the written part of a language be learned as a second language with much less effort than a native who has the help and support of knowing the verbal part of that language while the student of the second language is without such an advantage?
   • How can the verbal part of a language be learned as a second language with much less effort than a native learns it as his mother tongue?
2. If a discipline can be learned in days (instead of years) with a newly discovered procedure, can educators’ conscious allow them to waste students’ lives away by teaching the old way, especially if the public is unaware of the issue?

We are the citizens of America, citizens of the world. Yet, most importantly, we are the citizens of humanity, that is, we are carrying the burden of human advancement. In fact, any human advancement is the result of, at least, four karma dynamics.

• Those who are not in the know carry the karma of ignorance.
• Those who spread the knowledge of human advancement carry the karma of messenger.
• Those who are in the know but are not spreading the knowledge carry the karma of apathy.
• Those who are informed about the advancement but are choosing to ignore or to deny it are carrying the karma of dead-weight.

Obviously, any advancement for humanizing is fighting against a variety of dead-weight karmas. Thus, this 2009 Linguistics Conference not only is a forum to discuss linguistics but is a battle of karmas, to reduce the karma of ignorance, to awaken the karma of apathy and to identify the karma of dead-weight.

Tutoring kids on Chinese Etymology

A fourth grader taking a test on Chinese Etymology