Re: USAGE: Cantonal spelling

I'll look for it.  YOu've got me curious.  Maryknoll doesn't exist here, but
I'm planning to go down to TLI and re-enroll sometime this week.  I'll ask.

Actually, Taiwanese is a school subject now, but it's not widely implimented
yet.

Adam

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>From: laokou <laokou@...>
>Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 09:45:03 -0500
>
> >It has been said that
> > there is a mnemonic poem, two lines of four characters each, where
> > each character is a different tone; first syllable, first tone,
> > second syllable, second tone, etc.
>
>Adam, since you're there, maybe you could hunt down that poem? Taiwanese
>don't study Taiwanese formally in school, so you're unlikely to find an
>average Joe who knows it, but if you study at TLI or Mary Knoll (does
>Kaohsiung have these? they must.), a Taiwanese teacher may know.
>
>Kou

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