A Point Too Far to Astronaut A Point Too Far to Astronaut A Point Too Far to Astronaut is the debut studio album by American hip hop producer Telephone Jim Jesus. It was released on Anticon in 2004. It peaked at number 150 on the CMJ Radio 200 chart. Sarah Zachrich of "Splendid Magazine" gave the album a favorable review, saying, "Telephone Jim Jesus will appeal to fans of both instrumental hip hop and more ambient fare; "A Point Too Far to Astronaut"s music is fairly unstructured, but never floats too far into the stratosphere." "Cokemachineglow" placed it at number 47 on the "Top 50 Albums
Chinese as a foreign language using intonation whilst retaining the correct tones. Chinese courses have been blooming internationally since 2000 at every level of education. Still, in most of the Western universities, the study of the Chinese language is only a part of Chinese Studies or sinology, instead of an independent discipline. The teaching of Chinese as a foreign language is known as "duiwai hanyu jiaoxue" (). The Confucius Institute, supervised by Hanban (the National Office For Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language), promotes the Chinese language in the West and other parts of the world. The People's Republic of China began to accept foreign