Mandarin Lesson April

I can not do mandarin lesson because the teacher is unavailable. The teacher is going to China for a trip and so I won't have mandarin lesson.

Mandarin Lesson March 29, 2011

Today, the teacher taught us on how to write today,tomorrow,yesterday,etc. She also teaches us about year, months, and weeks. I find it hard to memorize the symbols. We also practice on pronunciation and focuses on the tone and pronunciation of each word. I find no problem in pronunciation but because I have limited vocabularies, I find it hard to communicate with people using mandarin.

Mandarin Lesson March 22, 2011

Today, we are learning about higher numbers such as 1 billion. We don't just learn about 1,000,000,000 but there are combination of different numbers such as 2,345,623,745 so it's sort of hard to spell it because I'm not fluent yet with the numbers and also the mandarin name for hundreds/thousands/etc. We also learn about time such as hour/minutes/seconds/half an hour/etc. The teacher also provide me with exercises for this and I think I can do it now. This practice is a lot easier since I've played with numbers a lot from the start and saying the time is a lot easier than counting numbers to 1 billion. I find it easier now to remember numbers but i have difficulties with the symbols. I find it really hard to remember them but I will try harder because I believe that mandarin is hard but it's not impossible to learn. I am planning to go to China for university and I have to practice my mandarin from now and continue to learn it in China.