Be fluent in Chinese

I found a penpal in China and she’s helping me with my Chinese(at the same time, I’m helping her with my English.) I always picked up a few Chinese songs and discovered an awesome Chinese rock band worth listening to: FUSION乐团.

I’m Chinese. I can understand Cantonese, Mandarin, and Hakka.

But of course, I’m fluent enough in any of them despite high expectations of my parents. I love my culture but can’t seem to remember all those characters and am too shy to openly speak it with other Chinese. I would love to improve at them all at my own pace though and become fluent in the future. 加油!

Learning Chinese seems like such a fun thing to do..it’s a definite goal for the future

I’m 10 days into learning Chinese (Mandarin). Time will tell how long I will last. Learning Chinese and Japanese together is helping me (in both languages) as many words are either derived from the same meaning or are written identically.

我发现学了五年中文不够了啊。哎呀！我太累了。

One year and half the current semester of intensive Chinese, one summer in China and I’m only scratching the surface. This is the long haul.

Well, I’m a few weeks into this, picking up more or less where I left off in college and I’ve reviewed and practiced 65 words. I learned how to input pinyin and am putting everything into an openoffice spreadsheet so I can generate quiz sheets on the fly. It’s not bad and it’s definitely easier to sort (I have a column for “repeat”) than old fashioned flash cards. And so much prettier.

I was asked by my school to translate a book they are using! And I have officially gotten to a place in my school where they really don’t have any textbooks for me to study! This is a frustrating and nice problem at the same time. I know my reading is good, and so is listening, I just need to practice the spoken part, but other than that, I think I’m doing pretty good with this chinese thing.

My chinese rox! I mean how much can i push myself .. I speak mandarine, cantonese and shanghai dialect! No I don’t read as well as I like and I would love to improve it but I have to acknowledge my accomplishments.

Plus I’ve heard some really bad chinese from people who down right, no holds bar, claim to be completely fluent. :(

a group of us got t-shirts that say “请你跟我说中文” and people actually started talking to us! It was great! I want to wear it everyday so people will speak to me in Chinese instead of just thinking I am some foreigner that only speaks english!
We also have bet each other to see who can speak the most chinese in one day this week. It will be a good challenge=)
加油!!!!!!