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jesslyn15
October 06, 2008, 06:17 PM posted in General Discussionhey all you.. peoples, dogs, w/evers-
some people think that chinese is one of the hardest lang. out there.. are they right? you answer...
yea chinese is mostly about the culture, wealth, and they use there lang. as symbols to deff. the word they are saying. i can hardly speak a sentence, but let me say-
i liked this one guy from china, and we talked... and talked... and talked for like 2 monthes THEN he stopped. just out of the clear blue sky BOOM! lol haha well i'm over it- thats what i get, we have never met and met over the internet (stupid) (kind of), but the thing is is that some people think that chinese people don't have that much emotions than Americans- is that true???
you can answer....
i have never been to china, ive had one friend he was nice, and SEEN a couple of chinese people. but never been there, i eat chinese food. :) and i watch alot of chinese movies..:) but YEA.
seeing the lang. looks hard, some say that if ya know spanish it helps out alot with diff. languages... WRONG! chinese has no comparrasion wat so ever (my understanding) to spanish HOLA NIHAO!.. no.
-Jlynn B.
P.S- if i spelled hello in chinese wrong, you can deff. tell how much i suck at it, but whats the fun in being sucky... thats why i'm learning it. :)
nashry
October 06, 2008, 06:52 PM" but the thing is is that some people think that chinese people don't have that much emotions than Americans- is that true???" Oh, they do, and their grammar is better as well.
Ok, no need for being cynical: Some of the closest friendships I have are with Chinese people.
So, good luck with your Chinese ;-) I wish you heaps of fun and cultural insights!
jesslyn15
October 07, 2008, 09:16 PMthanks for the encouragement. and yea it does make it pretty easy to study chinese, since already know spanish- some of the chinese symbols are easy to tell what they are, like i heard that survivor was a boat with 8 ppl on it, because of Noah and the Ark- thats what i heard!
nashry
October 07, 2008, 10:31 PMSurvivor: 幸存者 or 生还者 , no boat there, the Ark story is quite unlikely anyway as China has never been a Christian country. I do not intend to spoil your enthusiasm, however, I'd like to advise you to take stories about Chinese with a grain of salt. With this language being "en vogue", weird anecdotes abound. 小心点儿。 (=Be careful!) But that is not to say that Chinese isn't very logical.
I guess I'm about your age (well, 17), so it's interesting to see that not all Chinesepod users are 30-somethings. Under which circumstances did you learn Spanish?
Chinese is of course not a jack-of-all-trades-language, but it does indeed give the learner access to a wealth of culture, history and personal relationships. It's really worthwhile and fun. With a heartfelt love for the language and culture, it's NOT hard at all.
jesslyn15
October 08, 2008, 06:24 PMyea i did. well i know the basics- like enough to get me threw mexico without leaving not knowing what they said. i had to translate everything for my dad (hes not good at spanish)
but yea i like to travel and that is the main reason y i'm learning chinese- oh yea ppl here are like in there 30's mostly! well at least we are young and we can learn it more so that we will be pretty good at it in out 30's. :)
frances
October 06, 2008, 06:32 PMHi Jesslyn,
You spelled "ni hao" correctly.
I agree that Spanish is nothing like Chinese, but if you have studied one foreign language it really does make it easier to study another!
Listen to some of the newbie lessons, and see what you think. As you can tell, there are lots of people here who will answer any questions you have.
Good luck!