Wednesday, October 17, 2007
PRACTICING CHINESE
As we've gotten older, it's gotten increasing more difficult to practice speaking Chinese. My parents made sure that my brother, sister, and I learned proper Chinese and practiced it at home. My dad's favorite phrase was "Speak Chinese."
One idea the three of us kids came up with was to try and translate the lyrics to songs we heard onto the radio into Chinese. Rap songs, sappy love songs, rock songs. It didn't matter.
It's actually a great way to practice and refresh your memory about any language that you haven't used in a while because it forces you to think of words you wouldn't normally think of.
Of course, if you're trying to translate a rap song, you may need to learn the translation for bad words like "ho." =)
As we've gotten older, it's gotten increasing more difficult to practice speaking Chinese. My parents made sure that my brother, sister, and I learned proper Chinese and practiced it at home. My dad's favorite phrase was "Speak Chinese."
One idea the three of us kids came up with was to try and translate the lyrics to songs we heard onto the radio into Chinese. Rap songs, sappy love songs, rock songs. It didn't matter.
It's actually a great way to practice and refresh your memory about any language that you haven't used in a while because it forces you to think of words you wouldn't normally think of.
Of course, if you're trying to translate a rap song, you may need to learn the translation for bad words like "ho." =)
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