About 2 weeks ago, I paid a visit to my secondary school. I wasn’t thinking much teachers will remember me. To my surprise, most actually did.
I was trying to look for the Chinese Language teacher that I hated in secondary 4 but it seems she isn’t around. Damn. I was about to tell her how bad a teacher she was and how blessed I feel right now since I don’t meet a similar teacher like her. I got B4 for Chinese Language in Ordinary Levels.
I kinda expected that result. Chinese Language isn’t my strong subject, I don’t like writing the characters and they have like 5000 of them? I don’t know how many exactly, just lots and lots of them.
And the worst of studying Chinese Language? Most of the teachers are bitches. They’ll nag and nag and nag, and I don’t like it.
Well, the runner-up for the worst of studying Chinese Language is learning the Chinese characters. Chinese characters aren’t phonetic if you get what I mean. You can’t look at a string of words and attempt to read it aloud, chance are high that you’ll get wrong pronunciation.
The Chinese language have so many characters. English only has 26. Bless Latin. Bless Shakespeare too. So, how do we learn how to write Chinese language?
Practice.
You just write and write till you memorize the exact stroke, angle and other whatevers one by one to prepare for examinations.
When I was secondary 4, I wrote quite a lot of these stuff. Not that I am so obedient or what. I am being forced. There is this really mean teacher that forced me to write on many occasions.
She demanded me to write them when I drag my chair because her department room is downstairs and she says it’s noisy for her. She demanded me to write them when I came into class late. She demanded me to write them when I talk in class. She demanded me to write them when I was daydreaming although I swear that I was merely playing out the scene in the chapter in a Chinese book that we’re all forced to read.
Let me show you a sample of what I wrote. The handwriting is quite bad though.
_(Forced to practice Chinese characters.)_
Possibly related:
were u guys forced to learn Shakespeare too?
boring stuff I though – although, for some reason, even though I hated english class (more specifically, the teachers) I always found that it all came relatively easily to me
by pketh (Jul 30, 2004 at 2 PM)not as bad as mine,really.i totally sucked at chinese.i agree with the chi teachers being bitches.it’s always like that.
its gd u finally escaped such an..individual.
by vanessa (Jul 30, 2004 at 3 PM)pketh: no, i wasn’t, but many of my other friends in other schools were, hahaa
by Mr. Dew (Jul 30, 2004 at 11 PM)i didn’t take literature for long you see. i find english teachers better than chinese ones, i think it’s probably my bad luck..
vanessa: yeah, i escaped, thankfully, lol
Everytime I have a test or exam coming up, I practiced like you did. Except that there isn’t any spacing between the words, I just squeeze the words into any empty space I can find. Maybe I should scan the piece of paper in so u’ll see how messy it really looks.
by Serene (Jul 31, 2004 at 9 AM)i try to write as lkittle as possible, hehee. the teacher forces me to write,and i give her a lousy job, no wonder i got B4
by Mr. Dew (Jul 31, 2004 at 10 AM)where are you from? where did you study?
by Ginny (Sep 27, 2007 at 9 PM)I need some help please!
Could someone please write ‘Impossible Is Nothing’ in chinese writing and email it to me at alankeane@inbox.com would be a great help!
Cheers
Alan
by Alan (Mar 26, 2008 at 5 AM)maybe you talk about chinese teachers in europe or america? i^m studying chinese in china and they are the most awesome teachers …
but for austria (europe) … i went to school+university for 17 years and most of the teachers/professors ve been plain assholes … haha
by poster (Mar 23, 2009 at 6 PM)