Wo xiao something guo.
Help me out, please, sir or ma’am.
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It won't happen overnight....
2 years ago
But it WILL happen!
I’ve always wanted to learn another language and even though I couldn’t see myself living in China, I would like to travel there… Stay tuned I guess!
Started Lessons Today
3 years ago
My boyfriend decided to trade Latin lessons for Chinese lessons. Today I learned how to say “hello,” “how are you,” “I am fine,” and “are you my mother?”. Also the five tones:
1. Straight across monotone.
2. Intone your voice upward.
3. Intone your voice like a swoop—down, then up.
4. Intone your voice downward.
5. No tone.
Wish me luck!
Making progress? - Just speak it!
4 years ago
Nimenhao! wohen hao!
Speak Chinese and speak Chinese and speak Chinese and speak Chinese and speak Chinese – best advice we had! from ChinaSpeak.com.au.
I thought it was hard to learn to speak Chinese but found out it’s not hard to learn to speak Chinese at all! HAVE No fear and Persevere!
Was going to China in 4 weeks time doing a practical paedetric physio internship near Shanghai with my classmates. Thought of doing a crash speak chinese course so we
could communicate with the children better plkus say NO DOG PLEASE! order our food and beers and bargain shop! =D
Anyway, found this poster at uni claiming to teach people to speak Chinese within the first hour with no pen no paper no stress. Yeh Rite! i thought. They were giving a
FREE lesson (all good) to show us how we could start speaking Chinese so..gave Alex a ring (the guy who started helping people speak Chinese OVER the phone apparently) and told them that the 5 of us were interested.
met up and half hour later we knew how to do greetings, be polite and already express ourselves in sentences when shopping. We signed up! Managed to negotiate a good student rate! =) – very important when shopping in China – we are poor students
afterall! and yup, we were Really speaking Chinese after all. The beauty of it was the fun we had in learning to speak and he also gave us his CDs to help us speak Chinese and very importantly understand Chinese.
we did learnt to speak Chinese and fear not – it aint hard! well not with Alex anyway. Learnt how to recognse basic chinese words though for food which was cool but dun wanna go down that path. speak Chinese is good enough for me.
So much fun speaking chinese to the locals when we were over (plenty of monkey body language going on too)- we like doing tag team speaking Chinese if the poor guy didnt understand what I was on about! =P
Surprisingkly though – even though our tones were wrong – they could still understand the gist of what we on about most of the time so we learnt Not to hold back and just started blurting it out and having a Laugh! always learn with mates – it rocks!
I think Alex is making some CDs or something to help people speak Chinese independently – not suer, so can check ChinaSpeak.com.au. EVEn better, if you’re in Perth, Australia, can check him out in person or Learn over the Phone! LOL – let me know if it works =P
zaijian! and good luck learning! =) TOTALLY cool language!
GaMBATTE!@ (on on in Jap)
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