Thursday, October 26, 2006

languages

today sebastian taught me spanish over soup lunch. soo

un hablo poco espanyol!
one of the earliest phrases i learned was "my teacher is handsome" which i shall not try to type out as i do not know how to spell it. but i do remember how to say it!

then i told juan spanish is definitely easier to learn compared to mandarin. and sebastian said i was lying and i was saying that coz im racist!. wtf? and juan made a very stupid conclusion:

mandarin is easier because the population in china is vast! so many people live in china and speak mandarin. it must be easy.. spain does not have as many people, and less people speak spanish, therefore its harder..

and thennnnn...

juan got joyce to teach him mandarin

the first syllable she taught him was 'chi' i think..
and that alone had 5 different intonations.

he then understood what i meant when i sed spanish is easier. soraya wasnt being racist. haha. beat this.. mandarin has 5 intonations, cantonese has 9!. and one sentence can be said 50 ways! whoa man!

4 Comments:

Blogger Otto said...

ehh kak, mandarin ada 4 nada saja lah...1st tone ada tanda (-)...2nd tone (/), 3rd tone (\/), 4th tone (/)...

tapi learning chinese phonetic memang susah lah.....flatten your tongue....curl your tongue....ada angin...takda angin...lol :P

4:19 PM  
Blogger soraya barakbah said...

cik adik, manala saya nak tau. itu orang dari china yg beritahu saya ada lima!

7:29 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

mi profesor es muy guapo!
pero estoy mas guapo

12:27 AM  
Blogger soraya barakbah said...

norman kentot.. hahaha

1:21 PM  

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