To continue from my first post, I'm going to be living in a dorm room b/c I enrolled at Shanghai Jiao Tong University for their "long-term Chinese refresher course". It's for a period of about 5 months. The last time I lived in a dorm-room was 1996-97, when I was 18 in my freshman year of college. Yeah this is gonna be interesting. And b/c I turned in my application on the very last day possible, single occupancy dorm-rooms were no longer available. I just hope whoever my roommate is, that he's not weird or smells like ass.
So anyways, as stated in the title thingy above, I'm an ABC. (American-Born Chinese) I can sorta speak Mandarin, but not very well. I'd like to think I'm good enough to order food at a Chinese restaurant or tell a cabbie where I need to go, but yeah that's kinda hit or miss right now. And I cannot read or write Chinese, except for my own Chinese name, numbers 1-10, and simple phrases like "i love mom" or "i love dad" or "horses are my friends".
I'd really like to improve my Chinese as a whole. My mom wants me to write a Chinese letter and fax it to her by the end of the program. We'll see about that.
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Why do you have to fax it?
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ReplyDeletea) I would like to know why you can say "Horses are my friends."
ReplyDeleteb) One of my friends in college was Japanese (an international student) and she always faxed letters home too, b/c it was faster than mail (and at that time I don't think it was an easy task to email in the proper characters) but much cheaper than the phone. Unf. as the years went by, she got less and less proficient in writing the characters so didn't write to her family as much. Luckily you will be going the opposite way.
i meant that i can write "horses are my friends", but on second thought i dont know really know how to write it. maybe something like "i love seven horses" is more realistic.
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