My Mandarin Journey 我的部落格

Date  : 29/04/2018 Time : 8:30 a.m. I learned about how to greet people and asking for their nationality.One of interesting things to know about is how to pronounce countries国家们 name in Chinese.Here are few videos that laoshi(老师) recommend and some from youtube. This is the one laoshi(老师) recommends us in online learning. This one is also interesting to be watched.I had many fun watching these videos. Some of country name that is common to me is : 中国 (zhong guo) -》 China 日本 (ri ben) -> Japan 美国 (mei guo) - > America 韩国 (han guo) -> South Korea 马来西亚 (ma lai xi ya) -> Malaysia 因都 （yin du）-> India 泰国 （tai guo）-> Thailand 应国 (ying guo) -> UK 发国(fa guo) -> France 新加坡(xin jia po) -> Singapore Till we met again.再见！

One of the online class assignment is to create a simple greeting video.Here are mine ! Hope all of you enjoy watching my simple video.

Date : 26/04/2018 Time : 7:45 p.m. This week only have one face to face class and two online classes. In classes we learned more about greetings.

Date : 21/04/2018 Time : 2:34 a.m. Here are some basic greetings that I learnt in class and the meaning. ni hao / nin hao - hello - 你好 ni hao ma ? - how are you ? - 你好吗？ wo hen hao - I am very good - 我很好 ni ne ? - how about you ? - 你呢？ xie xie - thank you - 谢谢 bu ke qi - you are welcome - 不可欺 zai jian - good bye - 在建 wo ye hen hao - I am also good too - 我也很好  shi - yes - 是 bu shi - no - 不是 wo hao - I am good - 我好 hai hao - still okay - 还好 mamahuhu - so-so - 马马虎虎

Date : 20/04/2018 Time : 08:57 a.m. In this week , here are the things that I learned. 1 . Pinyin We learned a little bit more detail about pin yin after online class. Choo lao shi (老师) explains about how the pinyin is pronounced and the difference in each of the slightly similar pronounced pinyin letter. 2 . Greetings - wenhou (问候) Choo lao shi (老师) teaches us basic greetings such as hello（你好） and how to start a conversation in Chinese.Example of the conversations learnt are : A : siti xiaojie ,  ni hao. B : ni hao ma ? A : wo hen hao . ni ne? B : wo ye hen hao. A : tai hao le ! zai jian 3 . Chinese Characters We learned about Chinese characters such as it's origin , how to build the characters , type of characters , type of strokes available and many more.And I also got to practice a lot of new basic characters that is commonly used in daily life. 

Date : 18/04/18 Time : 8:39 a.m. The picture is the number in Chinese. Picture below is the number that is indicated by hand gesture.It is used when people travelling to different region in China because some places uses slightly different word to pronounce number or different slang.

Date : 17/04/2018 Time : 9:52 a.m. Today I will be posting about one of mandarin song that I like.I watched this movie called The Myth starring Jackie Chan and Kim Hee Sun. It is a great movie that has romance,action,tragedy and as usual , superb acting from the actors and actresses. Apparently this movie has a good OST titled Endless Love. It is a good sad sang love song that is sung beautifully. Here are the lyrics. mèng 梦 zhōng 中 de 的 rén 人 shú xī 熟悉 de 的 liǎn 脸 kǒng 孔 nǐ 你 shì 是 wǒ 我 shǒu hòu 守候 de 的 wēn rǒu 温柔 jiù suàn 就算 lèi shuǐ 泪水 yān mò 淹没 tiān dì 天地 wǒ 我 bú 不 huì 会 fàng shǒu 放手 měi yī 每一 kè 刻 gū dú 孤独 de 的 chén shòu 承受 zhǐ 只 yīn 因 wǒ 我 céng 曾 xǔ xià chéng nuò 许下承诺 nǐ 你 wǒ 我 zhī jiān 之间 shú xī 熟悉 de 的 gǎn dòng 感动 ài 爱 jiù 就 yào 要 sū xǐng 苏醒 wàn shì 万世 cāng sāng 沧桑 ...