Chinese SL

[joechan521]

哇我也想回去看奥运,特别特别想,但是现在还没有决定呢.
还有我看的出来,你的中文很formal的感觉,不是spoken的,呵呵.因为平常说话不太会说奥林匹克游戏,马来群岛这种的.呵呵^^

 :oops: 我都不知道这些说发,我要是在家里谈这个,我就说olympics 呵呵. 我总是加很多英文词,因为我知道的中文词不够 >_<

what are the requirements for getting into SLA as opposed to beginners? and what about chinese first language lol. I've seen some of those exams, they're not that hard ....

呵呵没有关系 ,你中文很好了. SLA和beginner我不太知道,but i think if u do esl, your lote has to be first language, which seems reasonable, but i know alot of people doing both esl and csla, so somehow they managed to get advantage from the flaws of the system.

[joechan521]

A lot of the time I recognise most of the characters you guys are saying, but they are in an order I have never seen before. So it's like, I can read it but it is making absolutely no sense.

Oh and I learnt olymics as what nina said but with 'yun dong hui' at the end. =)

yeah yours is a more accurate translation of olympic games,
奥林匹克运动会, where nina translated olympic, and games like 2 words.
when speaking, we usually abbreviate as 奥运会 or just奥运

[ninwa]

:oops:  :oops:  :oops:  :oops:  :oops:

wow, I'm such a non-asian-like asian.

^_^

[cara.mel]

I pretty much don't do spoken only learn proper chinese

The one thing I do know is you can shorten 的时候 to 时 because sometimes that happens in the listening
Oh and also, after someone said '我有了something(like some object)', our teacher told us that the first three words in that by themselves mean something else. so then for the next week we were informing everyone 我们都有了。

Think they're the only things I know that aren't standard standard chinese

[lyn123]

lol my mandarin is like fused with cantonese .. like sometimes i use "jor" (past tense word for cantonese) with mandarin sentence .. like .. wo chi jor la .. haha instead of chi bao le . -__- sounds very stuffed up . nah cos some people from msia claim that because bahasa malaysian is their first language .. they can get into esl and chinese sl beginnners -__- even though their more likely to be very good at chinese and english and less at bahasa malay -____- esp. the kids that go to the chinese education schools instead of normal malaysian schools

[joechan521]

我也是北京人!

你几岁来到澳大利亚? 我六岁来的. 所以已经在这带了十二年了. 我的英语比我的汉语好  :oops:

我女朋友也是6岁来的,但是她中文很好唉,可能是因为环境,她经常说中文,但是她必须做CSLA,不能做CSL.

[ninwa]

so then for the next week we were informing everyone 我们都有了。

hahahahaha


joe: hehe 我的男朋友是香港人,他四岁来的,他在家里都不说普通话! (他说广东话) 但是他的普通话还是比我的好! :oops: 哎,真没出息

[kingmar]

After seeing you guys speak that well, I think I'm officially up shit creek in a leaky boat without a paddle with liquid hydrogen in the fuel tank.

[ninwa]

After seeing you guys speak that well, I think I'm officially up shit creek in a leaky boat without a paddle with liquid hydrogen in the fuel tank.

LOL.

[lyn123]

After seeing you guys speak that well, I think I'm officially up shit creek in a leaky boat without a paddle with liquid hydrogen in the fuel tank.

lol dont worry ! i;m sure you will do fine as long as you study properly ! hehe or unless ur a natural pro but yeah . my chinese is quite bad .. like i'm more slangy .. than proper grammar sometimes T.T and .. you go to mhs ! LOL.

[cara.mel]

汉语朋友们！听CD以后，我有一些问题。

第一：?广东话?有什么意思？这是?上海话?，?北京话?等一样，还是有其他的意思？
第二：?我明年要kao大学?。什么kao? 是考式的考吗？有什么意思？

谢谢你们！

Also in one of the listenings I was doing just then, they wanted to go to the beach, and the guy was navigating, and the girl wanted to look at the map, so she did, and she said they had been walking west all this time from where they started from, when the beach was to the east xD

[joechan521]

汉语朋友们！听CD以后，我有一些问题。

第一：?广东话?有什么意思？这是?上海话?，?北京话?等一样，还是有其他的意思？
第二：?我明年要kao大学?。什么kao? 是考式的考吗？有什么意思？

谢谢你们！

Also in one of the listenings I was doing just then, they wanted to go to the beach, and the guy was navigating, and the girl wanted to look at the map, so she did, and she said they had been walking west all this time from where they started from, when the beach was to the east xD

广东话 is Cantonese, the dialect of Chinese spoken in and around Guangzhou province China, so it is similar to what ?上海话?，?北京话? means.
kao大学 is 考大学, it means taking the exams which gets people into universities. 我明年要考大学means "i'm doing VCE year 12 next year", its NOT going to uni next year, that would be我明年要上大学. therefore the person speaking is currently in year11.

also when asking what something means, its"是什么意思?" rather than 有什么意思.    

[cara.mel]

Thank you very very much, especially for the second one! *needs to change my answer for that*

[joechan521]

:wink: your welcome, 加油

[cara.mel]

What's 加油? is the first character from can jia?

see people in normal SL, there are about 20 people from my school just like me that you can do better than xD