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| BloodyChinese Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 4370 days ago 39 posts - 61 votes  Speaks: German*, EnglishC2 Studies: Mandarin, Korean | Message 217 of 457 28 January 2013 at 1:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Interesting introduction, iawia. You must have some mad organisation skills;)
I do not know many Chinese guys who are interested in learning Thai, so I am glad to see someone who is. Usually, they just like to spend their holidays there. "A friend once asked me why would anyone want to learn Thai." You know what? I get this a lot. I am hanging out somewhere, a girl comes up to me, asks about my interests and I tell her about my Chinese studies. 7 out of 10 times I get this really confused reaction, with people asking why the hell anyone would study Chinese. Yeah, Chinese!. Sometimes they even wonder whether or not you can actually study Chinese at University. I am just left speechless in these situations. Too bad I actually have to tell people I am half Taiwanese, otherwise I could simply say I am some sort of heritage learner. By the way, I wanted to make you aware that we normally say "I'm a university student now" instead of "I'm an university student now." I do not know why this is, the former just sounds right to me while the latter sounds weird. Edited by BloodyChinese on 28 January 2013 at 1:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4684 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 218 of 457 28 January 2013 at 1:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
Because "university" starts with a consonantal sound, /j/. "an" is the article used before vocalic sounds, as in "umbrella". It's not a matter of the letter written, but the sound pronounced. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| BloodyChinese Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 4370 days ago 39 posts - 61 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2 Studies: Mandarin, Korean | Message 219 of 457 28 January 2013 at 1:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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See, that's the perk of learning a secondary language. You actually might know what you are talking about and can explain it to people when necessary :P
I have a Chinese professor at University whose German is beyond amazing. It feels humiliating to get taught about German history, culture and language by a Chinese guy. But then again, he's someone who gets up at 4 a.m. in the morning, does 200 pushups while reading a Chinese classic and then jogs through the forest reciting Goethe to himself. All before he arrives at our class at 8 a.m. Quite the unique lad. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Homogenik Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4830 days ago 314 posts - 407 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Polish, Mandarin | Message 220 of 457 28 January 2013 at 2:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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iawia, thank you so much for your comments, they were very helpful.
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| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4526 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 221 of 457 28 January 2013 at 3:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
So this is the key to becoming fluent! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| BloodyChinese Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 4370 days ago 39 posts - 61 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2 Studies: Mandarin, Korean | Message 222 of 457 28 January 2013 at 3:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yeah, exactly :P I imagine he trains like this every morning at 4 a.m.: Snake in the Eagle's Shadow If you were to learn a language like that, you'd become fluent in no time :P Edited by BloodyChinese on 28 January 2013 at 3:38pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Vegemighty Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4494 days ago 45 posts - 67 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin | Message 223 of 457 28 January 2013 at 3:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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你们好！
我想给你们介绍介绍。我是一名外国教师。我 现在住在中国。我在成都待了六个月了。 我觉得中文难急了。我的爱好是玩游戏和旅行 。我的微薄是 烤美洲候 我有时候上QQ：1754218378 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hidden Linguist Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4365 days ago 64 posts - 87 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Mandarin, Sign Language, French | Message 224 of 457 28 January 2013 at 11:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Ok, this post should make vermillon happy... ;)
At some point over the next couple of days I'm going to be making a recording of myself attempting to speak Mandarin. I'm only going to be speaking a little in Mandarin, but it will be more than I posted for my written introduction. This is going to be challenging for me, not just because of my bad Mandarin and pronunciation, but also because of my nerves (and the fact that I hate being recorded). I'm also going to have to work up the courage to actually post the recording. In fact, part of the reason that I'm making this post in the first place is so that I'm essentially 'committed' to making the recording and posting it up...otherwise I'd probably just keep putting it off, or wimp out completely. O.o I doubt that I'll have the guts to post a video, so it will probably be audio only. I'm not sure how to upload an audio file. I see that some of you have used soundcloud. Is that easy enough to use? 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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