Here is how Ellen and I can make a billion dollars.
It is something that the world is crying out for and we can be famous for doing it.
Ellen can teach me to read and write basic Chinese, but through English, not learning any Chinese words at all. It is totally possible. All different spoken Chinese languages are written the same and it is not dpendent on any. I understand that Vietnamese used to be written in Chinese till the French colonialists changed it to a latin alphabet.
Each week she can teach me one lesson, learning one word a week to start and then a few each week. Not only the word and its strokes, two stroke words, then three stroke words etc but the meaning of the word, but not a sound, all described in English. She can teach me two lessons a week, and see how it goes for division into terms or whatever.
No one has done this before. A book, or online, or in classes, where people learn to read and write chinese but not speak it. They can then participate in online, chinese Internet. The world cannot go on with such a division, with only Chinese people being able to participate on both sides of the divide.
This would also be a good gateway into the spoken language as well as it would cover a lot of the conceptual differences between the languages, making later learning of a spoken language much more straightforward.
Even if we don't get a dollar from each of the billions of people who will take advantage of it,
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