tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21789630206266213712026-04-01T00:21:22.600-07:00A blog about the journey of one student on his way to learning Mandarin Chinese, Chinese Culture, and life. Personal thoughts and sentiments included...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00758630699294261477noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2178963020626621371.post-11030351407888465562012-01-01T10:55:00.000-08:002012-01-01T10:55:59.987-08:00

I started this blog more than 3 years ago, while I was attending the University of Utah studying Chinese Language and Literature as well as Asian Studies (with an emphasis on history). I didn't know what I was going to do with Chinese... I certainly didn't speak it with any degree of fluency. I just knew I was attracted to the language, the culture, and the girl that I had met when I was 17 years

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     At about this time last year, I began to see the end of school quickly approaching. It was also the same time I began to seriously consider studying Chinese as a major, trying to visualize what it would be like. If I studied Chinese, why would I do it?    Before that moment of consideration, I hadn't given much thought as to WHY to study Chinese. I had just been immersing myself into

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     With all of the Chinese people I began to talk to, there were two things I noticed about them. They were very proud to be Chinese, and also very curious about what life was like in America. What do Americans look like, what kind of food do we eat, how big are our normal houses (None of these questions are rude to ask)?     The sheer curiousity of Chinese people to know what is outside of

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I found studypond.com...     I think that is when I seriously began to  truly learn Chinese. Suddenly, having the opportunity to speak with real Chinese people, who didn't speak/write the best English, forced me to learn at least some very very basic Mandarin. 我 (wo) = I, 你 (ni) = you, and 他 (ta) = he/him/she/her. 是 (shi) = to be (copula verb, the closest equivalent of the "to be" verb in English

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Where were we?... Oh, yes. I was talking about how I thought I had found the "Chinese Learner's Bible", after I bought a grammar book from Amazon (For the curious reader, the book happens to be one in a series of study aids provided by Schaum's. A simple amazon search will quickly yield results, and fetching the price of around $20).But to get back to the main point. It wasn't that easy. Like

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I'm Max, and I have a story to share with whoever wishes to watch my life unfold...But first, there is a bit of catching up to do.Exactly 0ne year, 5 months, and 2 days ago, I started the process of learning Chinese. Why Chinese? Well, one day, I was bored after school, and like any person who is properly bored nowadays, I was surfing on the internet. In a crucial, random moment of fate, I

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