All of you are welcome to learn Chinese. :) It seems that
Chinese tutoring is a good business to run. Anyway, it is
already a good business with Singapore government

Actually I happen to have Electronics Engineering Times Aisa
edition August 1-15, 2005 edition with me. The articles is
titled "Mandarin on the resume". The author is Ron Wilson.

The article starts with this paragraph. 
-------start of the quote---------
Mainland companies seize Chinese cellphone market... 
Process development shift to Taiwan...
SMIC flexes muscle in foundry market... 
Chinese company to buy IBM PC division.

"Good grief -- the way things are going, I'd better start 
learning Chinese!"
--------end of the quote

The Chinese input is quite easy now. I use the same keyboard to
input Chinese and English. I can also input any other language
using the same keyboard, including Japanese and German and ...
if I happend to know that language. :)

BTW, If you are using Windows XP and later Linux, Chinese 
support is built-in. 

Regards,
Xiaofan

-----Original Message-----
From: Wouter van Ooijen 
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 3:31 PM


> We will all speak Chinese in 50 years, and I'm not too unhappy
> about it. Would you give us some lessons, just to prepare us? ;)

The trouble with Chinese (the language) is that AFAIK there is one
written language, but a zillion spoken languages that won't understand
each other any more than a Swede will understand a Portugese. So maybe
in 50 years we will all *write* Chinese. I wonder how large my keyboard
will be? I'll better start cleaning up my desk now!

Wouter van Ooijen

-----Original Message-----
From: Electron 
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 4:04 PM

We will all speak Chinese in 50 years, and I'm not too unhappy
about it. Would you give us some lessons, just to prepare us? ;)

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