Mandarin lesson March 15, 2011

For mandarin lesson, we start off with the pronunciation practice and then start to learn about numbers. We practice on how to say numbers up to 1 billion with different number combination. I have hard time to remember the vocabulary such as: one hundred, one thousand and one million. It's also hard because in Indonesia, we count zeros by separating 3 zeros (ex: 9 000 000 000) but in Mandarin, we separate the zeros by 5 zeros (ex: 9 00000 0000). It's hard to think it that way and so, the teacher gave us a tips. She said that it's easier to count 5 numbers from the back and then start to say it. I have improvement on my pronunciation and the teacher said that I have neat hand writing.I gain perseverance in doing this lesson and also recognizing my weaknesses and strengths.

Mandarin March 8, 2011

Today, we practice more on our pronunciation. Liang Laoshi checked our homework and she is impressed that my handwriting is pretty neat and today, she gave me a booklet which contains simple vocabularies so that I could look at it at home. She gave me 10 vocabularies from the booklet and have it as my homework. We also learn about different vocabularies of relatives such as uncle, aunts, grandparent, etc.

Mandarin March 1, 2011

Today, I have the first mandarin lesson. I learn about consonants and vocals in mandarin and also start to learn on the pronunciation and some meanings. I found difficulties in pronouncing the different tones and also consonants. Liang Laoshi gave me homework on numbers. I think I need to work on my pronunciation skill while she said that, my writing is very neat. Writing mandarin needs specific steps and I've done it correctly.

Dance lesson - updates!

I'm still having dance lesson every Wednesday each week but not going to include it in my CAS anymore since I have start my mandarin lesson. If there are any special events, I will still update on it.