Sandra Dodd

http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2009/12/outside-links-and-inside-news.html

I found a link to something translated into what I think is Chinese.
I'm quoted and my site is linked.

Usually I get between a thousand and two thousand hits a day on my
site (SandraDodd.com) and one day last week I got 90,000, because a
letter from David Bowie I've had there for years got linked out. I
used to always bring the site announcements here to this list. Then
for a while they were too frequent, and now it's been a month so I'm
reminding people that site announcements can be subscribed to by e-
mail or the blog can be saved somehow, because I won't always bring
them here. It could crowd the list up.

It's been kinda slow here this week, though.


Sandra

kelly_sturman

One of my adoptive children, an (approximately) 18 year old
young man who we adopted from China four years ago, confirms
that this is,indeed, Mandarin Chinese. He doesn't read very
well, in Chinese or English--he does other things well: he's
got a beautiful singing voice and he's a talented artist and
an amazing cook, and he's very generous with his time and energies--
anyway, the parts he *was* able to read, he was able to let me
know that the English quotations below the Chinese translations...
or should that be the other way 'round?... are spot-on. Just
to be very clear: he couldn't read all the Chinese, but everything
he could read to me and translate into English corresponded directly
with the English.

I find it interesting that a Chinese speaker would groove on
unschooly ideas; that culture, what I know of it, anyway, has
a lot of competition in the schools, a lot of memorization, a
lot of surpress yourself and impress your teacher...

...I think all of that at least partially explains why this
particular son chooses to go to school. Anyway...

Hope that helps a little,

Kelly Sturman
http://kelly-livingjoyfully.blogspot.com

--- In [email protected], Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...> wrote:
>
> http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2009/12/outside-links-and-inside-news.html
>
> I found a link to something translated into what I think is Chinese.
> I'm quoted and my site is linked.
>
> Usually I get between a thousand and two thousand hits a day on my
> site (SandraDodd.com) and one day last week I got 90,000, because a
> letter from David Bowie I've had there for years got linked out. I
> used to always bring the site announcements here to this list. Then
> for a while they were too frequent, and now it's been a month so I'm
> reminding people that site announcements can be subscribed to by e-
> mail or the blog can be saved somehow, because I won't always bring
> them here. It could crowd the list up.
>
> It's been kinda slow here this week, though.
>
>
> Sandra
>

Sandra Dodd

-=the parts he *was* able to read, he was able to let me
know that the English quotations below the Chinese translations...
or should that be the other way 'round?... are spot-on.-=-

Thanks, Kelly!! (Thank your son, too, please.)

Sandra

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