date: 1096315002
mood:
listening to:
hey hey.
update for today will be short. i tis 10 to 10pm, i stlil have a 30 minute walk home, and there really isn’t anything funny to update.
quotes from today’s chinese class:
“olya, do you drink”
“drink… *confused face* drink? yes, drink”
“so, drinkdrinkdrink – i take it you drink a lot?”
(in chinese to say yes to a question you use the verb)
*in next door room very loud noise, french movie or something*
*he walks up to the door to the next room and VERY loudly goes*
“AS I WAS SAYING, THE PRONOUNCIATION OF THIS CHARACTER IS LI, YES, LI
*practicing numbers – from 1 to 10*
he says the number in chinese or english and you say it in the other one. we only did 1,2,3 at this point:
him – person
yi – one
san – three
two – er
one – yi
er – two
three – san
one – yi
yi – one
er – two
two – er
san – three
three thousnd six hundred and five – *?@$#@*
also, practicing numbers: he is asking people which floor their bed is on (presumably won’t be more than 3, considering the architecture in europe – my guesthouse is the tallest building all around, but he doesn’t know that!) – asks first girl, second girl.. yi, er, er, asks me..
i look at him, and raise 5 fingers
he just grabs his head and sits down “aah this is impossible”
practicing pronounciation of new words:
“dutch laugh at chinese and say that they don’t have the sound R! well, yes, we DO have that sound, it is just it is pronounced differently – now if you look at symbol “er” …”
i just think its funny cause, its not r if you pronounce it differently.
…
i got nothing.
