Saturday, October 8, 2011

A new "approach" to understanding Christmas

Christmas? I couldn't can't remember which is earlier that when I first got to know about the festival of Christmas or the word of Christmas. That does not matter in make a difference when it comes to memorizing the word of Christmas, yes, I bet this word ranks highly in as one of the most difficult words to memorize for Chinese Children.

How did I memorize the damn word? At that time I did not know any spelling rules, so I used the most common method used by Chinese English beginners: Chinese signs characters. "克里斯特马死"=“Christmas”,they are sort of similar in pronunciation, where Chris="克里斯", t=“特”, “mas”=马死.

Sometimes the Chinese signs characters do not make any sense,like Chris(克里斯),there is no particular meaning with attached to it; but things become interesting when you know that “马死” means"the horse is dead" in Chinese.

Want some an exciting example? OK, take a look at "facebook", it sounds like "非死不可" in Chinese pronunciationof which the real meaning is which means "have to die"...

It is a silly stupid learning method for to some English "professionals", However, for most people, only when it becomes interesting, your brain is more likely to work as your expected!

(Hihi Eva, you can fix it by editing with a different bright color:)! hahahahaha
Alright, Red is delete, green is a change, blue is an addition!

Comments = If you write couldn't, it means that you couldn't before, but you can now - so in this case it is better to use can :-)
When asking a question, use the to do + verb-form :-)

I tried to leave your original post there, and just add stuff in colours, so you can see what you wrote!
Let me know if you have any questions :-)




7 comments:

  1. Maybe someone else has the same question, so I post my question here :-)

    my question is: "When asking a question, use the to do + verb-form :-)" could you refer this to a context :D?

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  2. That's amazing Eva, when I go through the words written by us...Thank you for the great idea and I think we can make a difference!

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  3. Thank you for adding colours! Somehow I can't.. Maybe I will be able to tomorrow :-)
    Just like you ask "how do you buy..?" and not "how buy you...?" and "how did you know" and not "how knew you?", "did you go to school?" and not "went you to school?", your "how I memorized the word" should be "how did I memorize the word" :-) (delete the d, by the way ;-))

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  4. I agree, I wonder why we didn't think about this idea before? :-)

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  6. 只要开始了什么时候都不算晚,积少成多:D and I suggest to keep all our mistakes.NICE!

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  7. 还有,the word Christmas and the festival Christmas 不用加of了 :-) 你删一下吧 :-)

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