Monday, December 25, 2006

From Dongguan on this special day

I have not wrote anything for a long time, while started from my primary school which always had some Chinese-composing competition between differents schools or cities in my home province, Hunan. and I won several times by some articles were stated by judges with "clear idea, good structure , fluent expressions", which enough to mark a good composition to a child especially with a moral main idea(moral is an important part in Chinese culture ) which is demostrated through a nice story that just came out of my brain and it's not ture.
Time goes by, now i 'm writing again in a different language and with a mouse. By standing at the tail of 2006, and i am very glad that we can have this new space for us to share the things in the year passed and in future. our students in Dongguan , they are a special group that i couldnot help to tell that they are lovely. they will use "mei3lv2美驴" ( "pretty doncky" )intead of "mei3nv3 美女",which is "pretty woman" and they darely to say "pretty doncky"very loudly outside of my classroom. and especially every single time they will kiss or be kissed when they ask questions by"qin1wen3亲吻(kiss)" "Qinwen, ni de pijiu duoshao qian? Qinwen(kiss again), qu Ole zenme zou?"Actually which is "qing3wen4请问(excuse me)". these little funny things that happened in my classes like a dessert after a main dish which decorated the studying days. i think i need to declare that the above things were told not be rude to anybody who made a similar joke , just for something that we share. Actually we are in a great harmony . I was lucky enough that my clients often like to treat their instructor some food or drinks, spending sometime together, also with their family. To teach mandarin in NCM is a good experience and also enjoyful.
It seems has no end for this article, let me conclude it with a wish cause today is a special day.I wish the ones who is working and studying in NCM , good luck accompanies with you all through 2007 and goes to 2008 for Olympics. ( then to be continued.)

2 comments:

Unknown said...

This posting is funny and brings a great smile to my face. Actually I think that most students of Chinese make the same errors in the beginning (including me - qingwen :)). Up to the day that I remarked that I am actually the only person saying quingwen, when I am about to ask a question. I remarked that most Chinese would not bother to say qingwen but just ask a question bluntly in the room. Does anybody share this observation with me?

April Lu - Program Coordinator said...

sorry , i 'am testing this webpage cause cannot be opened after the earthquake.

 
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