Man Da Rin

The first thing I hear when I entered mandarin class was 大家好 (Hello everyone). Yep, I joined the Mandarin class for my Humanities elective. Its the only subject available that doesn't clash with my other subjects.

Thus far, he's been spending a lot of time teaching us Pin Yin, the Standard Mandarin romanization. It gets kind of boring after some time but it is necessary. So loads of pronouncing weird sounds and tongue rolling.

Now, I know how to form sentences. Woot woot.

I shall demonstrate.

我爱 McDave。他是我的男友。(I love McDave. He is my boyfriend.)

Ok fine, I didn't learn how to write these words in class. I had some lessons last year. The class is actually meant for people who knows nuts about Mandarin but I don't really know how to read and write that well. So I count as a 'banana' right?

What we really learned so far are:

你叫是么名字？(What is your name?)

我爱我的爸爸。(I love my father)

她是我的妈妈。(She is my mother)

Simple everyday phrases that everyone must know.

He taught us some poems and songs as well to aid the learning process. Kinda funny actually. Though I felt like a retarded person who has a mind of a 5 year old. The songs were nursery rhymes.

McDave couldn't stop laughing when I sang the song to him...

*tsk tsk tsk

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