English Mags

 

I saw these mags at the pedestrian road, Tongji Uni campus, Shanghai (2009). There were heaps of magazines. They were not only in Chinese language, interestingly, mags like Forbes, Time, Newsweek, Der Spiegel, Vogue, The Economist could be easily seen there.

English is definitely not their first language. But with a rapid development in economy, more Chinese travel and study abroad, hence it is important to master English. Besides, Chinese were also more open to many aspect of Western culture. For example, many uni in China had more collaboration in research and staff/student exchange with some universities in Western countries recently. This is to speed up their qualities on teaching and R & D areas instead of working on those areas internally.

Due to a high mobility of information in every aspect of life, no wonder many students in China’s big cities like Shanghai are able to speak English like native speaker now. It can be seen by their preference in word choices, good grammar and fine accent.

I’m so envy their English capability and thinking development for my own students. If I bump into any student who read Time or Newsweek at their free time at the uni, I think I’ll definitely give him/her a perfect mark in English!

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