Thursday, 15 March 2012

A phrase to memorize when you're feeling defeated... (And to impress your Mandarin speaking friends).

There will be times in your Mandarin studying life when you feel discouraged and wonder why Mandarin is just such a difficult and impractical language to learn... (it is friggin hard at first)

At these times, I always tell myself one thing:

Traditional
Simplified
Pinyin
English

如果我繼續努力練習的話,我可以加強我的語法和提高我的中文水平。
如果我继续努力练习的话,我可以加强我的语法提高我的中文水平。
Rúguǒ wǒ jìxù nǔlì liànxí dehuà, wǒ kěyǐ jiāqiáng wǒ de yǔfǎ hé tígāo wǒ de zhōngwén shuǐpíng。
If I continue to try hard to practice (practicing),  I can strengthen my grammar and improve my Chinese level.


This is a great phrase to memorize in my opinion, and it also can be used to impress your friends when they doubt your Chinese ability haha... 我說著玩的  (Wǒ shuōzhe wán de)(I‘m kidding)。This is usually followed with  別太認真  (Bié tài rènzhēn)(Don't be so serious!) 


Anyways... Memorize the pinyin so you can type it on your phone and practice saying it to yourself so it sticks.  It's a good way to give yourself encouragement when learning gets frustrating... and it will... believe me!


That's all for today... back to studying... :) 


加油!加油!!
Jiāyóu! Jiāyóu! !

add oil!add oil!


(means keep it up! or come on! is the English translation)

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