[Previous entry: "Taboo?"] [Next entry: "Dont know characters"]
02/13/2006: "Hmm"
I noticed today that I am becoming a more aggressive person. A taxi driver tried to rip me off more than he already was and my mouth nearly caused it to turn into a fist fight.
I am beginning to be able to pick up jokes in chinese.
Yesterday I met some people with my two friends mike and andy. They asked for our names. Andy and mike promptly told them their real name but I gave a nickname that I thought up, "Mao Mao". For the rest of the night these people were calling me Mao Mao which is a common name for a chinese dog. It might be the equivelant of being called, "Fido".
My chinese is improving exponentially lately. I am now able to work on creating an accent. MY chinese now has the northern china accent instead of 'stupid foreigner accent'. I also fake my way through lots of conversations now by pretending to know what people are talking about and giving answers that I think they are looking for. PEople think that i have a fluency that is much higher than I actually have. In reality, I am guessing my way through everything... just like I did in school.
My english writing is getting worse every day because I hardly practice it anymore. My english sentance structure is also becoming worse and worse. Now I find it hard to create complex sentances because I've had to tone down my english so much since Ive come here. The only english speakers I talk to are non-fluent or non-native speakers, so I make my speech worse for their benefit. :]
Bah.
Ron