I posted my last entry into another blog somewhere and I had an awesome back and forth with a friend of mine who lives in Hong Kong. She helped clarify things for me a bit about the way the Chinese denote time. I wouldn’t quite call it a “breakthrough,” but it certainly increased my comfort […]
Archive for November, 2007
When? With whom? Together?
Published by November 27th, 2007 in Vocabulary and ChinesePod. 6 CommentsWhen people ask me why I started to learn Chinese, I’m reminded of that moment in Dead Poets Society where Mr. Keating (played so expertly by Robin Williams) tells his students the purpose of language: “To woo women.”
Now, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it does have some kernel of truth. I’ve always wanted […]
It happens to me all day long, this inner translation thing I have going on. I’m constantly talking in Chinese in my head, or translating what I hear or want to say into Mandarin. Day by day, bit by bit, I’m getting there.
Anybody else do this?
I keep taking simple sentences and working them out. There […]
It’s up to YOU!
Published by November 16th, 2007 in RL Practice, ChinesePod and The Octagon. 2 CommentsThat’s right, kids. It’s audience participation time! Yaaaaaaay!
Last week, I got all kinds of lucky and won the Movie Madness thing and got myself a free Practice Plan session with Aggie! After I squeed and jumped about like a little girl, I spent some time thinking about this. Finally I contacted Aggie to set up […]
