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Community Compass: The tears, joy and responsibility of learning Chinese

FROM CACOPHONY TO BEAUTY After studying for several years, someone might say: ‘You can communicate in Chinese.’ But that is by far not the end of the road

By David Pendery

And finally, studying this foreign language, any foreign language ultimately becomes an exceptional responsibility, as we slowly contribute to a greater comity, a greater apprehension, a greater existence for us all.

In conclusion, the words of Aldous Huxley seem apt:

The choice is always ours. Then, let me choose

The longest art, the hard Promethean way

Cherishingly to tend and feed and fan

That inward fire, whose small precarious flame,

Kindled or quenched creates

The noble and ignoble men we are,

The worlds we live in and the very fates,

Our bright or muddy star.

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