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To: RealMuLan who wrote (61912)	4/13/2005 7:30:19 PM
From: Seeker of Truth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

For the most part, difficulties with English are the problem for Chinese immigrants. My brother, at Columbia, had a brilliant post-doc. She could have landed a professorship in the US, easily. But her husband simply can't learn English. So they are going back to China. I know somebody else who spent seven years in Canada trying to make a minimal living and yet go to university. He finally passed the TOEFL examination. Few have that kind of determination. The choice is to accept a menial job forever or go back to China where they can use their talents. Chinese and English are far far apart. To learn English as an adult is, for speakers of a European language, no big deal. It is a phenomenal feat for Chinese because of the huge differences in the two languages. Adult westerners don't learn Chinese easily either. They complain about the multitude of characters to learn and their pronunciation is usually atrocious. That's the way it is. Outsourcing to China of intellectual work better depend on people who learned English as children.