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Posted on: Resisting Relocation
May 31, 2007 at 2:15 AM我的日本老师说日本有很多蹲的厕所 我的日本同学说男人很幸 我的日本老师说日本有很多蹲的厕所 我的日本同学说男人很幸 我的台湾老师说蹲的厕所散乱 我听说更好脱衣服 this is all I know about 蹲的厕所. it seems it's an Asian thing. I took one semester of japanese. One thing I learned in that class was that the more educated the japanese person is, the more chinese characters they will use when they write in Japanese. Another reason to learn chinese!!!!
Posted on: Resisting Relocation
May 30, 2007 at 3:53 AMMaybe this is the perfect place to ask. I have been thinking of going to a chinese language school in Shanghai for a semester. I know food is cheap, but apartments may not be so cheap. Are squat toilets common place there? That could be a deal breaker right there!!!
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May 30, 2007 at 2:06 AMWe both got a solid background from our Taiwanese teacher. at the same time we went school hopping. we also had a Jennifer Zhu as a sub teacher for a couple of weeks. The Taiwanese teacher became our very best friend, I still listen to her every day on the radio. Too bad she can't because she is on the other side of the world now!!! I guess that wraps up the story of my life, maybe we can 写中文！！！
Posted on: Playing the Stock Market
May 29, 2007 at 2:09 AMI think I know somebody here! she used to be in my Chinese class in Houston. 如果 真德， 恭喜 恭喜
Posted on: Paying Child Support
May 28, 2007 at 6:53 PMI guess I'm missing the perfect chance to write in chinese characters, but I never learned how to speak, so i don't know the chinese structure well enough yet! Maybe I should try in the newbie section! At that same school, I had another teacher, very pretty and knowledgeable. This class only had 2 students, so she took the liberty of bringing her laptop to class and showed us about Chinesepod. I told her that I already know about 1000 characters. She still only downloaded the 'newbie' lessons. I was so completely bored!!! Then there was one lesson that had 'kan de chu' in it. Though that lesson is well explained by Jennifer Zhu, the teacher told us that it was getting too complicated to explain. She said she could talk about 4 hours on that, but maybe later in the semester she would get to it. She said we don't have enough vocabulary and background to be able to understand it. She said we need to have patience. We need to learn to crawl first before we can run!! I've been crawling for 10 years already trying to learn this language!!!! My knees are getting sore! But she refused to teach anything except the newbie lessons, so I stopped going there!
Posted on: Paying Child Support
May 28, 2007 at 3:44 AMI think I can narrow the problem down a bit. I met a chinese lady tonight that was born in Indonesia. She learned Chinese in the US, by renting chinese movies that had sub titles, copying words she saw and then asking her chinese friends for the meaning. She didn't learn pinyin!!! She learned sounds!!! She made the environment for herself. The problem then is the way it's taught in chinese classes in this country, When they introduce pinyin in the class, then you may as well forget it. Game over!!! Actually I've noticed that they do everything in their power to prevent you from learning to speak chinese. I bought a whole series of chinese kid books that I was told they teach chinese in China to their kids. I was trying to read them, but I wasn't able to understand even the absolute basic book! I showed the books to one teacher, she told me that these books are for babies, you are an adult, those books are not for adults. At the other class I went to, I saw those same books in the classroom. I asked the teacher there, that maybe we should learn from those books. She told me that these books are for the kids in China, not for the kids in the US even. She said she was trying to get the principal to get books that are meant for the kids in the US. But then I noticed that she was talking to these kids in chinese and the kids were talking in chinese to the teacher. That didn't happen in our class. Nobody could speak chinese in our class!!! Then we had a teenage girl that wanted to join our adult class. She had a colorful chinese book especially for teenagers. I asked the teacher that maybe we should be using that book. The teacher said that book is good for teenagers, not for adults. You have to learn from Adult books, she said. Then I showed my teacher a book that I bought. "Taiwan Today". I was able read the first full page dialogue in that book. Every character I could read and understand. This teacher was from Beijing. She told me not to confuse myself with that book. You will learn to read and write 100 characters in my class she said. But I already know about 1000 characters, I told her. I think there was something about Taiwan that she couldn't stomach, but as it turned out, I didn't learn anything in her class that semester. Except perhaps a few simplified characters.
Posted on: Paying Child Support
May 27, 2007 at 9:22 PMand where do these billion people live? environment is everything. I'm absolutely convinced that unless you live in a chinese environment, you will never learn to speak and be understood!! obviously we don't have anybody jumping in here to say they know somebody that did it! I know a few people that did learn to speak it just by working in the environment as a hair dresser. One was Tai, so she already has some idea of tones.
Posted on: Paying Child Support
May 27, 2007 at 2:53 AMFrom the 4 different schools I've been to, I've met a lot of guys that have chinese wives, their reason for trying to learn chinese. Every one of them say that their wives refuse to talk chinese to them, and they don't have patience to teach them. Without fail, all the stories are the same!! The reason has to be that their wives don't have a clue to what their husbands are saying because the tones aren't absolutely correct. 3 out of every 4 words spoken must be the correct tone to be understood. I know this to be true because one of my acupuncturists told me that she knew a lady that learned from a book - 'wo e le' - i'm hungry. But my acupuncturist told me that it didn't sound like anything she knew. It must have been that all 3 tones weren't exactly right! All these guys are doomed to never being able to learn chinese in this country! And they don't know why!!!
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May 26, 2007 at 10:19 PMThankfully we have Taiwan to promote traditional. While I'm in the learning phase, I need everything that will help me learn and remember. Traditional just doesn't do it for me!! The Taiwanese also have the bopomofo as opposed to pinyin. Unfortunately even my Taiwanese teacher was teaching pinyin because that's what the students wanted. It was only recently that she introduced bopomofo, but I think it is much too late to be helpful. The reason pinyin works in China is because everybody learns the tones years before they learn pinyin. In my country we do it backwords. It's impossible to get the true tone by thinking english letters (pinyin) I'm absolutely convinced that is the reason nobody in this country and probably worldwide will ever be able to learn to speak chinese and be understood!!!! Unless they live in a Chinese environment!!! If we could listen to Chinesepod all day long, we could have half a chance to brainwash our minds to get accustomed to hearing proper chinese without thinking pinyin!!! At least that is my last chance hope!!
Posted on: Resisting Relocation
May 31, 2007 at 2:42 AMit seems i have duplicate lines in the post above. I tried to write in word first and then copy and paste! anyway that's my first effort in writing chinese!!