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[rocknload]

I've written my third ... thing about my family in the last week, this apparently is a popular topic in language classes in the month of February.

你們好！我叫伍籣妮。這是我的照片、這是我家。我家有五個人、我爸爸、我媽媽、一個第第、一個妹妹、和我。我沒有哥哥姐姐。這是我爸爸，他叫Larry，他是工程師。我媽媽叫 Jacqui，她是法文學生。 我第第叫Bryce，他是工程師學生。我媽媽第第和我都是大學生。 這個女孩子是我妹妹，她叫Bridgette，她是高中學生。

I'm proud of myself. I mean, it wasn't hard, that's really basic Chinese, but holy crap that looks cool. Doesn't it? Doesn't it?

Comments

[immelmanturn.livejournal.com]

I CANNOT READ THAT, THEREFORE IT IS IMPRESSIVE.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

YOU AREN'T MISSING OUT, IT IS A PRETTY LAME THING, I JUST HAVE TO MEMORIZE IT NOW.

[immelmanturn.livejournal.com]

WAIT, YOU HAVE A PAID ACCOUNT NOW.

DO A VOICE POST. DO IIIIIIT.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

............ MAYBE WHEN THE ROOMMATE GOES TO BED

ALSO I NEVER GOT AN ALERT FOR THIS COMMENT WHAT DID YOU DO TO MAKE LJ HATE YOU

[immelmanturn.livejournal.com]

I DON'T EVEN KNOW. MAYBE YOU MADE IT MAD, AND IT WAS TRYING TO PUNISH YOU.

[maxiboom.livejournal.com]

Yes!

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

I ACTUALLY LIKE FLIPPING TO THE BACK OF MY TEXTBOOK JUST TO SEE ALL THE AWESOME STUFF I CAN'T READ, I LIKE WRITTEN CHINESE THAT MUCH.

[unicorn]

SO MANY SQUIGGLY LINES

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

THEY ARE MOSTLY STRAIGHT ACTUALLY, THEY ARE NOT SO SQUIGGLY.

[unicorn]

They zigzag!

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

They do! Sort of. It kind of horrifies me that I look at these things and just see a them as a sum of their radicals, because that means I've been brainwashed into thinking Chinese characters make sense.

[ignitible.livejournal.com]

Squiggles!

It's doubly confusing for me because I know Japanese, and all my brain can do is go "Why is the kanji for 'like' next to 'gate'?"

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

I haven't figured out if Japanese is helpful or not, in this class. It's definitely useful to be familiar with the characters, and I know all the stroke orders and stuff, but I may forever read the numbers wrong.

[neversince.livejournal.com]

You could be bullshitting us and it could say

a;ldkfj;adlkfj;akdfjkl;dafjkla;dfj Bridgette a;ldfjkd;lakjfa;ksfdj!

but it looks so cool!!

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

IT IS NOT A LIE I SWEAR

It's my oral performance speech for tomorrow.

[shati.livejournal.com]

你好，籣妮！我叫爱伦。我家有四个人，我爸爸，我妈妈，我弟弟，和我。我不知道为什么中文学生都要说话的家。

我的中文很不好：（

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

My teacher says that learning traditional characters will make reading simplified ones easy! Reading that makes me suspect this is not the case.

你好，愛伦！我的中文也不好。Technically, 我爸爸不是工程師，我第第不是大學生。But everything I said was sort or true...

[shati.livejournal.com]

-- yeah, sorry! I never bothered installing traditional. But I did learn traditional for the first year, and it's not a bad idea -- it's not that easy to read simplified if you've learned traditional (just easier than the other way around), but it makes learning them more heartening! :D

Hahaha, 在我的日文科，我们说，watashi wa ABC no bengoshi desu!可是，我们不是lawyers。。。

[iron.livejournal.com]

THAT LOOKS AWESOME.

... and totally does not tempt me to write something in Russian and post it because it looks cool and most of my flist can't read it.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

DO IT I will fangirl your Russian writing it would look so cool. I can actually read the Cyrillic alphabet, I just only know like ... four words of Russian. I COULD PRONOUNCE YOUR WRITING. BADLY.

[iron.livejournal.com]

I WOULD SO DO IT, but the problem is, I don't have the Russian keyboard layout memorized. I... don't think I ever had it memorized, and phonetic typing isn't available for Russian. I don't think it is, at least. I made a reference sheet for myself a while ago, but it's still a royal pain in the ass.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Hey, I had a Russian keyboard long ago, when I was trying to learn it! But yeah, that must be kind of a nightmare, I have trouble when I'm using the Spanish or French keyboards, and those are like, barely different...

[scarbie.livejournal.com]

I don't understand a dang thing you're saying but that is very cool. :)