kevin learning chinese update

i still stink at it.

 

but i’ve gotten farther in rosetta stone, and can say a lot more now. i’m just really really bad at the tones. i can try to say things correctly (also very slowly) but i can’t really hear the differences at all. chI chi CHI whatever it all sounds like eating. it’s cool though because i’ll hear snippets of words that i know when other people are talking. it’s like 1 word in every conversation, but that’s better than when i came here i guess.

i also am learning the really common words in writing, like up, down, zhong, big, little, mountain, etc. i can recognize exit but have no idea what the two characters that make it up are, except the first one is two mountains stacked on top of each other and the other one might be mouth. it’s a weird language.

so summary:

i still stink at it.