First video from Taipei (Mandarin)
First video, using my five weeks of Mandarin. Please excuse some of the pronunciation (kerrrrrrrrshi!!). Rough translation for people back home:
"Hello everyone, my name is Shan Shan (my Mandarin name, means Coral), I am a Kiwi. Today is August 2nd. I came to Taipei on 24 June this year to learn Mandarin. I feel that Taipei is very hot. I understand some Mandarin. Mandarin is hard but interesting. My spoken Mandarin is not good, sorry.
"Right now we are inside my kitchen. I like to eat Taiwan things. Chinese food tastes good, but I most love Kiwi nosh. This is Japanese sushi. It looks and tastes good. This is my fruit. I enjoy eating grapes, apples and peaches. I don't like eating bananas, but I still want to cook a banana cake (probably poor mandarin, string of grammar guess-work). I also like to drink cola and white wine. I buy alot of pearl milk tea. It costs 30 NTD a cup - cheap!
Thanks and goodbye."
posted by MEK @ 04:33
1 Comments
1 Comments:
hi
just came across your blog randomly, I'm from Taiwan living in NZ now (opposite to you!).
Your Chinese is pretty good, I'm surely you would have made vast improvements already.
The way you said the nursery rhyme was particular good.
A few mistakes in your speech:
-"everyone" - not sure what you said - sounded like "you" in plural form and another word after it.
-chinese grammar error - different to english: you said "we right now at inside my kitchen", to be correct it should be "we right now at my kitchen inside". The term 'inside' is more like a place 'kitchen-inside' i.e. 'inside-of-a-kitchen' then a proposition indicating you are inside the kitchen.
-cook a banana cake - instead you said "make rice banana cake" I think because the literal Chinese meaning of 'cooking' or 'cook' is 'make rice'.
I do love how cheap pearl milk tea is in Taiwan, if you remember in Auckland they are like $5 a cup = ~NTD$100!
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