It’s been a busy week in Guangzhou
A year ago one Finnish girl come to Guangzhou for a student exchange. She was here only for few months, but she gained a lot from those months. After going back to Finland she set up her own company and started doing her own business. Now that friend of mine is in Guangzhou for two weeks and we have been shopping from morning til dawn. During last year I’ve helped her to buy lot of different products from Guangzhou and sent them to Finland. Doing business, even small one, in Chinese isn’t always that easy. People might lie and do all kind of tricks to get you pay a higher…
Sara’s Mandarin Monday: 我的家乡黑诺拉
今天我给你们看一下我以前写的作文。老师给了我89分，你觉得应该给多少分呢？ (这篇作文是在课堂上写的，时间不够，所以很短。) 在中国人眼中，我的家乡是一个小小的乡镇，但是在芬兰黑诺拉算是个城市。黑诺拉的人口比中山大学本科生的数量小，只有两万居民。 在广州每天都有交通堵塞，在我的家乡一个路口有三辆车那就已经算是堵车。星期六商店下午两点关门，人烟消云散。因为人口很低(少)，所以每个人(都)知道你的私人事情，流言蜚语流转(不已)。 对孩子的成大(成长)来说，这样的小城市是个非常好的地方，但是高中毕业后年经人(年轻人)无法留在家乡，反而必须去大城市读书或打工。怪不得有一个女孩从黑诺拉来到广州生活(My reader suggested to write 这也是为什么我从黑诺拉来到广州生活的原因 instead)。 现在对我来说，黑诺拉意味着童年，那段生活很容易的时间。小时候什么压力都没有，日子过得很舒服。每年回国时我兴高采烈，那时候我可以回去(重温)我的童年，忘记愁肠。 黑诺拉只是个小城市而已，但是在我心理它有巨大的意义。
Becoming fluent in Chinese: January Goal Check-In
I am almost too embarrassed to do this check-in for my goals, but perhaps after this humiliation I’m going to do better job in February. So let’s see how I did with my goals in January! Listening 15 episodes of American TV and 8 episodes of Chinese TV (challenge started in the middle of the month). This looks like a big failure, but I promise you that I will get it even before Saturday.(I would blame this TV series.) Writing I published two Sara’s Mandarin Monday blog posts in Chinese which is according to the plan. Thank you everyone for giving me such a great feedback! Reading I did start…