The title pretty much sums it up. I had to get up at some ungodly hour this morning (6:15 am) after going to bed at 3 am (without finishing my screenplay) to go to the first Chinese class I've attended since I tearfully (and I do mean tearfully, the damn exam reduced me to tears of desperation) handed in my final exam for Advanced Readings in Chinese and gleefully completed my Chinese major. I got up today in hopes of maybe refreshing my language skills to be able to successfully conduct business in Mandarin Chinese when I go to Hong Kong in March if need be.
Much to my dismay (and my non-working brain's) I was met with the equivalent of the material I looked at back in the third week my freshman year. Really? 图书馆 (Library) is an Intermediate-level Chinese vocabulary word? And the grammar structure Verb + 到/ Verb +不到 is really an Intermediate-level Chinese grammar structure? REALLY? Maybe I got a little more annoyed at the class I'd arranged to take than I meant to - I think it just has to do with having to wake up too early and not having 喝了一杯咖啡 ("drank a cup of coffee". NW will understand this. She understands the importance of 汉语课以前，我们需要喝着一杯咖啡).
Damn. My 脑子(brain) really doesn't work right now. I think I'm going to go sit down with a cup of 绿茶 (Green Tea) in hopes of rebooting it sometime soon.
Until then, 再见！
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
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ReplyDelete我情爱的门哎呀，
ReplyDelete我当然了解你的情况；我每天八点半都上课，上课以前＊必须＊喝一大杯子咖啡，甚至我从美国带来我的“法国式泡的咖啡机“。嗯，我可能有一个问题。。。
如果你想练习中文的话，你肯定得联系我！不过，听说在香港人们很少说普通话；如果你不说广东话，他们就会说英语。无论，复习中文吧！这样，你来大陆找我时候，我们可以随便旅行！:D
加油，同学！