在美国西海岸加利福尼亚州圣费朗西斯哥市的中国城,有一所远近闻名的“职业资源开发中心”(CRDC),它的前身是由当地老一辈华侨自愿捐资兴建,专为赴美华人学习英语服务的“唐人街北海滨英语培训中心”(CN-BELC)。当初在华人聚居的唐人街建立英语培训中心,只是为了满足赴美华人同胞亟需学习英语,以便在这块初来乍到、尚感陌生的土地上立足谋生的迫切需 In the Chinese city of San Francisco, California on the west coast of the United States, there is a well-known “Professional Resource Development Center” (CRDC). Its predecessor was voluntarily donated by the older generation of overseas Chinese and was specially designed for Chinese Americans Learn Chinatown North Shore English Training Center (CN-BELC). The initial establishment of an English training center in a Chinese-held Chinatown was only needed to meet the urgent need of Chinese compatriots in the United States to learn English in order to make a living on this newly arrived, yet unfamiliar land