Tag Archives: Meg Vs. Mandarin

Second Language Benchmarks

Posted on June 23, 2008 by Meg

I just had a whole telephone conversation in Chinese!!! (If a new bottle of water gets delivered to our house today, I must have done it right.) Edit: Stick realized that I would want photo evidence of me talking the … Continue reading →

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Meg vs. Mandarin, again.

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Meg

Yesterday I started taking a beginning Chinese class. I’d forgotten how much better I liked my life without anyone saying “no, no, is zh not zh“. At least the prof doesn’t giggle when she says it. She has the same … Continue reading →

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Meg Vs. Mandarin

Posted on June 20, 2006 by Meg

Stick’s mom is famous for forcing me to watch Nascar and driving my hyperactive self to the MTELs. The other day, she e-mailed me to tell me she’d learned some Mandarin words, and she gave the examples wo xiang-nian ni … Continue reading →

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