meiadeleite.com » learning chinese in portugal http://meiadeleite.com meiadeleite Mon, 21 May 2012 20:06:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Où voulez-vous aller aujourd’hui? http://meiadeleite.com/2009/06/23/ou-voulez-vous-aller-aujordhui/ http://meiadeleite.com/2009/06/23/ou-voulez-vous-aller-aujordhui/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:44:55 +0000 ana http://meiadeleite.com/?p=1134 yesterday, a french tourist asked us for some directions to a nearby hill. straightforward stuff, follow us, and on that road go straight ahead till you get to the top. and then, as i visualized the answer in my head… i couldn’t say a straight french sentence without sprinkling it with chinese. my french used to be pretty decent, but every time the man asked something, my first reply was in chinese, then i stopped, switched and tried to finish the sentence in french, much to his bewilderment (and my own!). i hope he found his way to that hill.

portuguese/english are the languages i use to think, but chinese is the closest thing to my “second language” these days: when i communicate with a non-english speaking foreigner, i instantly speak in chinese. it’s unconscious and… weird.

which is why i really need to find someone to practice this with, before i forget it all. any tips?

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