Thursday, September 15, 2005

hey!! mixed language posts !! all right it works. yaaaaaay!! i can see it anyway, i don't know about you guys. like i said, maybe try changing your browser's encoding. go to tools > options > languages > encoding and select chinese-simplified.

something like that anyway.

everyone's saying how chinese is really important and china's so huge now blah blah blah i thought i'd better brush up my once-upon-a-time 'O' level B3/year 12 chinese advanced standards*. but i realize that not everyone reads mandarin, so there will be little translations at the bottom of each post.

bilingual wannabe girlie does not want to be branded as chinese elitist racist bugger. i am not ok! for a person who is always laughing at how chinese people love yellow gold and jade, this is a big step.

前进 前进 前进

onward onward onward

* admittedly though, these exams were mostly (barely) passed due to rote learning. my spoken chinese is still very angmoh sounding
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gianne said...

i learnt mandarin when i was like 8, but had thrown a huge tantrum. so that's out.

now totally regret it, my whole fmaily speaks fluent cantonese and a spatter of mandarin, my chinese friends speak mandarin, and i'm labelled a 'banana'. you know, yellow on the outside, white on the inside, lol.

good luck with ur chinese... i'm learning both chinese n japanese at the same time.

have fun!

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