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Feb 25, 2005 13:44

Silly Chinese Presentation    Today was the last day of the semester. Every Friday we have to give a short speech slash presentation that uses the new vocabulary and grammar from the chapter. I usually just figure out what I am going to say a few minutes before class and wing it, but since it was the last day, I actually wrote it all out the ( Read more... )

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educ8edfool February 25 2005, 11:08:48 UTC
Teacher Andrew, sounds like a stripper name

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buko_in_taiwan February 25 2005, 22:22:50 UTC
You know, I've always wanted to be a stripper. Maybe that should be my name. I can walk out with a dress shirt and glasses on.

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educ8edfool February 25 2005, 23:14:47 UTC
I'd watch. I wouldn't give you money but still..

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tres_faux February 25 2005, 11:19:55 UTC
Hey, whatever works. ;)

Teaching is hard work. You rock for doing it.

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buko_in_taiwan February 25 2005, 22:23:11 UTC
It's hard, but I sort of love it. haha

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zinear February 25 2005, 13:06:13 UTC
Better that they learn English from those tapes than from their electronic dictionaries. (Go to a store a play with some of the 無敵 ones.) Those dictionaries have a generic computer-generated voice when it reads words. When a couple of Chinese guys in one my classes read English, they sound exactly like those dictionaries. It's unreal.

你說'這個'不真的, '這個'指的是那一段話還是最後一句話? '反正'... 你潛水怎麼樣? 我想試一試, 可是不知道怎麼做. 我游泳還好, 可是我的stroke真不好, 我換氣(breathing like when one's doing the freestyle)也不太好. 我'轉'時也不太好. heh

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buko_in_taiwan February 25 2005, 22:25:29 UTC
I actually did do swimming, but I wasn't a diver for all of high school. And the whole order of events was all not true.

I was just playing with electronic dictionaries yesterday! I am going to get my parents to buy me one when they come. And ironically enough, I was looking at the thing for swimming and learned then forgot all the words for the various strokes.

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zinear February 26 2005, 07:46:23 UTC
I'd ask around before you buy one. I had one with a color screen, and the battery life was awful. Even when I wasn't using it, the battery'd be trained after a few days. I'm not sure if they have any newer black and white ones that would have nice battery life. Now, after having had for a year (and not using it all that much), the battery seems incapable of holding a charge.

What was nice about the color screen though was handwriting input. It worked nearly all the time, assuming that one had the stroke order right.

[The Japanese dictionaries on the other hand are great! They last a long while on two AAA batteries. Don't think Seiko, Sony, et al. make any Chinese ones, though.]

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