18 Apr 2007
Will Squareface make it?
Posted by: Squareface In: Campus Life| Language| Taking in; on; and to Shanghai (or China in general)
I’m almost halfway through my Bachelor’s degree in Shanghai, but I’m still struggling with written Chinese and some Chinese classes. I’m attending heavier English classes now due to course requirements, which limits the classes I have in Chinese this semester to a miserable 3 (out of 10). Two and a half to be exact. One — Disgusting Visual Basic (Computer) Class; Another — Marx’s Journalism…Thought(?) ; half — An Introduction to Historical Classics - The Old Testament (because I get to study English material whilst listening to the lecture in Chinese).
Hmm, I think I speak better Mandarin now, and idiomatic PRC Chinese phrases are part of my tongue already, but my Chinese (writing) still has too much room for improvement. I still have problems understanding teachers in the classes mentioned, only understanding words like “VB”, “Marx”, “Babylon”, “Palestine”, “Genesis”, “Moses”, “Adam”, and “Egypt”, but none of the words in between.
With the next semester in Canada, which direction do you think my Chinese will go? Up HuangShan Mountain, or down Niagara Falls?
Working on my Chinese is part of my study plan here, and work on it I must.
