Chinese way of education

The class is full of Chinese; I mean the Spanish course. Me, Morteza, and a philipino are the only foreigners (non-Chinese I mean!) and the teacher asked us to change. She believes that we may not learn here that much since these Chinese are not good at learning languages and she has to move ahead quite slowly. This is her experience anyway.

She is defenitely right. You know, one of them even can't write his name in English. Many of them have similar problems as they can not pronounce their names in an understandable way.

There are some reasons for this, some excuses. Firstly, their mother language is like the most difficult one from pronounciation point of view. They have problems with "R"s and some other characters. I think there is no English equivalent for some of their characters, on the other hand.

Secondly, they work overnight, all of them; in chinese restaurants mainly. So they can not concentrate, many of them sleeping during the course.

The teacher has a difficult task on the other hand. To tell the truth, I've never followed "Mission Impossible" but I suppose that the movie is about teaching a second language to people like us. You know, we are like kids here with a lot of problems in understanding the meanings, pronounciation, and making sentences.

And interestingly, in the first session of the course, I saw them all, knowing the numbers; from zero to millions. The only reason behind this, is that they need numbers to get the money from the customers. Otherwise...