As you probably already know, in America we learn English, and in Taiwan, we learn Traditional Chinese. Chinese class is the class with the most periods in a week, going up to eleven 50 mins classes in a forty-four class week. Chinese is also the heaviest subject in exams, it accounts for 29% of your total grade. So what do we learn in Chinese Class? The truth is, no one is really sure.
We read articles, poems, and ancient Chinese in class, we learn the proper pronunciations of characters too old that you can't even type it on the computer anymore, we memorize ancient Chinese poems, and we also memorize definitions for such things as like a toy top and stuff...
So what we actually do in class is read and (more so) memorize stuff. The funny thing is that although that's what we do in class, only about 10% of these things come out on the exams, the other 90% common knowledge.
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