What’s the secret to learning a language? MOTIVATION. What’s your motivation to learning Zhongwen?
In 2008, the town of Beichuan was hardest hit by the Sichuan earthquake: ”Chinese authorities decided to stabilize the remaining buildings after the earthquake, preserving the entire town as a memorial to the tremendous loss.”
“Phonemica is a project to record spoken stories in every one of the thousands of varieties of Chinese. We believe that each language and dialect is a priceless cultural treasure embedding history, social customs — the knowledge of a people. The Chinese language today contains thousands of language varieties, with differences as wide as Mandarin and Cantonese, as nuanced as the different words of neighboring villages. [These dialects] will be transcribed and shared on our site for others to hear.”
You can see photos from the recent Sichuan earthquake here. 中文三的学生：You should be able to read the signs in Pictures 38 and 41.
