1. We started chatting on a mutual friend's LJ (yay athenaraven) about possible trips to my home country, and then we were, like, WTF. We share fandoms of WIN.
2. PB&J, because that's the name of your LJ lol.
3. You seem like a wonderful person, and I've love-loved chatting with you so far. You sound like you've been through a lot too, but come through it well. Can't wait to get to know you better! :)
Thanks^^ can't wait to get to know you better, too^^ and my mandarin is decent, orally. I have problems with phrases and stuff if they are like, specific lingo or one of those 4 word phrase thingers. My reading is adequate, but I don't do it unless I have to because IT. TAKES. FOREVER. And my writing ttly sucks LOL^^ My Taiwanese is okay, because my family is Taiwanese, so we speak it at home (esp my grandparents). I could speak it when I was REALLY little, but then I started speaking English and now I have a funny accent so I can't speak it as well as I'd like. It's funny now when I speak to my grandparents, they'd talk in Taiwanese and I'd answer in mandarin lol. OMG DO YOU SPEAK TAIWANESE TOO? (I think you call it something else over there, Fuken?)
Well, that probably means your Mandarin is better than mine, lol. I listen to Chinese music and have no idea what's going on unless I concentrate, and even then I'm like, OMG WTF sometimes. I just asked because I figured it must have been so difficult to readjust after living in the UK for so long and having to learn it from scratch. I learnt it as a kid and STILL find it tough!
Anyways. I can't speak ANY dialects. I FAIL. We call it Fujian or Hokkien here, yup. I can just about manage Mandarin, and understand some Cantonese. But speaking it is another matter entirely LOL.
Yeah, that whole bilingual thing is hard to juggle sometimes. Well, for me, at least. Sometimes I find that I can't switch properly, so I'd be speaking English still when I should be speaking mandarin and I'd get this WTF look from other people LOL. And my friend told me about that, that most ppl in Singapore actually speak more English than anything else.
Oh absolutely, you'd love it here. All of us can't speak Chinese for nuts. Well, that's inaccurate. ;) But first language here is English - people have varying abilities to speak it, obviously - followed by whatever language matches your race. So, for me, Chinese/Mandarin. For others it might be Malay or Tamil or even French/Japanese.
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*skips away*
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1. We started chatting on a mutual friend's LJ (yay athenaraven) about possible trips to my home country, and then we were, like, WTF. We share fandoms of WIN.
2. PB&J, because that's the name of your LJ lol.
3. You seem like a wonderful person, and I've love-loved chatting with you so far. You sound like you've been through a lot too, but come through it well. Can't wait to get to know you better! :)
4. HATRED OF BRAD.
5. How good is your Mandarin/Taiwanese?
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and my mandarin is decent, orally. I have problems with phrases and stuff if they are like, specific lingo or one of those 4 word phrase thingers. My reading is adequate, but I don't do it unless I have to because IT. TAKES. FOREVER. And my writing ttly sucks LOL^^ My Taiwanese is okay, because my family is Taiwanese, so we speak it at home (esp my grandparents). I could speak it when I was REALLY little, but then I started speaking English and now I have a funny accent so I can't speak it as well as I'd like. It's funny now when I speak to my grandparents, they'd talk in Taiwanese and I'd answer in mandarin lol. OMG DO YOU SPEAK TAIWANESE TOO? (I think you call it something else over there, Fuken?)
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Anyways. I can't speak ANY dialects. I FAIL. We call it Fujian or Hokkien here, yup. I can just about manage Mandarin, and understand some Cantonese. But speaking it is another matter entirely LOL.
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I'm going to bed now, you know, have to be well-rested to torture little kids and all that *shrugs* *stares evully at exam papers*
good night! *waves*
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