December Explorations

So I have yet to write another full blog post. I have been super busy with school and today we each had to give a memorized two minute speech in Chinese in front of our teachers, classmates, and host parents. It was a nerve racking experience that served to demonstrate the improvement in our Chinese (I chose to compare the appearance and teaching style of my two Chinese teachers). Aside from that I have still been exploring Beijing and having an overall outstanding time here.

Here are some pictures


For those of you who can read Chinese, here is the text of my speech

申老师和马老师的比较

大家好！我叫满汉声。我们每天都有中文课。 我们有两位老师，我的老师是申老师和马老师。每天早上他们教我们两个小时，所以现在我们的关系很好。可是申老师和马老师完全不一样。

第一

申老师和马老师的样子不一样。申老师比马老师高得多！申老师有一米八高，可是马老师差不多只有一米五。我坐者的时候和马老师一样高！虽然马老师很矮可是她有很多非常漂亮的衣服。马老师常常穿黄色的裤子和紫色的衬衫，都很漂亮。我听申老师说的太太给他买衣服！在这个地方他们不一样

第二

在中文课上申老师和马老师也不一样。申老师对我们很好。我们一起聊天可是也学中文。马老师不是这样的。 马老师特别厉害。如果一个学生的语法或者声调错了,她拍桌子说“不对！”。我们都怕马老师。

虽然申老师和马老师有很多不一样的地方，有的时候他们很象。他们都给我们太多作业，但是们都爱他们。

谢谢！

Here is the Google Translator version (I'll post what it actually means later)

Good! My name is Man-Han voice. Every day we have a Chinese class. We have two teachers, my teacher is a teacher Shen Ma and teachers. They teach us every morning for two hours, so now we have a good relationship. However, Ma Shen teachers and teachers do not like. Shen Ma and the first teacher of teachers do not look the same. Shen teacher teachers is much higher than the horse! Shanghai High-meter eighty teachers, but the horse is only one meter teachers almost five. I take the time and teachers as high as the horse! Although Ma is very low teacher but she is a lot of beautiful clothes. Ma teachers often wear yellow pants and purple shirt, very beautiful. I listen to the teacher, said Shen's wife bought him clothes! In this place, they do not like second class Chinese in Shanghai teachers and teachers are not the same horse. We have a very good teacher of Shanghai. We chat together, but also to learn Chinese. Ma teachers are not like that. Ma particularly powerful teacher. If a student's grammar or the wrong tone, she said Pai Zhuozi "No!." We are all afraid of the teachers Ma. Although Ma Shen teachers and teachers have a lot of different places, sometimes they like. We gave them too much work, but they are loved.

From December Explorations

From December Explorations