Chinese lesson

I took a Chinese lesson last night. I asked her to correct my Chinese composition which I updated as “Omoni” in my blog. She corrected my article word to word, sentence to sentence. I can’t believe it! My blog could not keep its original shape. I made a lot of mistakes. It was a little bit shocking to me, because I had a certain confidence in that article in terms of grammar.

 What made me to compose such a broken Chinese? Firstly I noticed that I might be under pressure of having to use newly acquired grammatical power to describe the things in the way of would-be an advanced learner of Chinese doing, so that I could show you my humble ability of Chinese. I didn’t want to use the word and wording that I used to use in daily conversation in Chinese because it sounds childish. Perhaps I would like to pretend to be an advanced learner of Chinese. I actually think it partly in Japanese and translated it into Chinese. I made mistakes in that process. What I’ve learned this time is that I have to compose Chinese sentences by using the words that I daily use and like talking to little children.  Don’t use difficult words or wordings until you get used to them and don’t think it in Japanese. Describe them very simple and directory in Chinese. In that way I will be able to avoid big mistakes in Chinese, probably.

Don’t   haste.   It’s   a long way to go.