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Published On: Mar 07, 2006 03:02 PM
Total entries in this category: 51
Published On: Mar 07, 2006 03:02 PM
Another way to be wrong
I'm learning to write Chinese, but I still have a
lot to learn about what to say.
For homework, our teacher asks us to write
sentences using our new Chinese vocabulary. I wrote a sentence using the word
for 'getting change'. My teacher marked my the sentence as wrong, because, she
said, it didn't make any sense. She asked me to explain to her (in English) what
I was trying to say.
The sentence wasn't complicated. Essentially, I wrote something like "How much change will I be getting?" When I explained the intended meaning to my teacher, she looked surprised. "If that's what you want to say, then the sentence is correct. But nobody would ever say that. If the person you a buying from thinks that you don't know the right amount of change, you will be cheated."
So, even when I speak Chinese correctly, I am still an idiot.
The sentence wasn't complicated. Essentially, I wrote something like "How much change will I be getting?" When I explained the intended meaning to my teacher, she looked surprised. "If that's what you want to say, then the sentence is correct. But nobody would ever say that. If the person you a buying from thinks that you don't know the right amount of change, you will be cheated."
So, even when I speak Chinese correctly, I am still an idiot.
Posted: Wed - November 26, 2003 at 04:57 AM