As a child I only knew the old signs for Chinese and Japanese. Then in middle school we were learning about asian cultures and it was included in our spelling tests. The teacher always used the old signs for those countries. Then on the day of the spelling test, the teacher never bothered to tell us that that there were now new signs for these countries, and that she would be using those new signs. She did not even demostrate. So, when she was signing the words to us using those new signs for the spelling test, the whole class (including me, a good speller) was COMPLETELY LOST. We had no idea what the hell she was saying. We were going WTF the whole time, and teacher would NOT use the old signs to let us know what she meant...she just simply used the new signs without any explanation! As a result, I think all of us failed the damn test! We were all pissed when we found out later from someone else what those new signs meant! I do like the new signs better but she should have at least TOLD US what those signs meant BEFORE THE DAMN TEST!
