Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . is a member of our mission and isteaching in the Boys School at PingTing Chou. We have much reason tobe thankful for the good teachers wehave had here. Those of our missionwho have been to the interior and who have studied under these teachers ap-preciate the difference. Then, too, we are told that the foreignhousehold is very much of a curiosityto the natives, especially where they areso few as in the interior, and that con-siderable time must be taken to satisfythat curiosity. Visitors come most anyhour of the day and the courteous thingto do is to entertain
Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . is a member of our mission and isteaching in the Boys School at PingTing Chou. We have much reason tobe thankful for the good teachers wehave had here. Those of our missionwho have been to the interior and who have studied under these teachers ap-preciate the difference. Then, too, we are told that the foreignhousehold is very much of a curiosityto the natives, especially where they areso few as in the interior, and that con-siderable time must be taken to satisfythat curiosity. Visitors come most anyhour of the day and the courteous thingto do is to entertain them. We havebeen spared practically all of that sincewe were permitted to live where manyother foreigners are, and thus did notbecome so much of a curiosity. Therewere other advantages, too, for we hadthe privilege of hearing pastors preachin Chinese. Though we did not under-stand much, still the ear was trained aswell as the eye in study. To learn tounderstand the native is a little difficult,and to hear some educated man talk. Our Present Teacher, Mr. Chang, a Young-Man of Ability. 298 The Missionary Visitor Spptprnbt^r1912 means a great deal, for he speaks moredistinctly and so can be more easily un-derstood. But with all of this there have beendisadvantages, the greatest of whichwas the amount of English spoken onevery hand. While we could make our-selves understood best in that way, stillit was not conducive to learning tospeak Chinese. In our part of the cityeven the natives spoke some English,and persisted in doing so, especiallywhen we were a bit slow with the Chi-nese. They also were eager to learnEnglish, since that would insure themmore customers or a better job amongEnglish-speaking people. But just now it is my intention to tellsome things we have learned, or at leasttried to learn, about Chinese, and alsosome of our experiences in study sincethat has been our principal businessthus far and is likely to be for somelittle time to come. Chinese cannot beacquired in
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