Mandarin is Hard, Isn't it?

The Koreans might have celebrated National Korean Language day recently considering the fact that some of the shows that I watched all had games and topics revolving around the language. To people like us who rely on sub-titles to get through the shows, we were more than a little baffled.

Coincidentally, my son is trying to learn Mandarin, out of the blue. You know, I had so many #facepalm moments that my face is blue black. Both went to Chinese language kindergarten for years. One of them went to a Chinese school for a year until we both collapse in sheer frustration (because my mandarin is passable only when I am buying vegetables in the wet market). I sent them to private home tuition for Mandarin. Both attended special (extra payment, OK?) Mandarin classes in school. They know nothing beyond 1 - 10 in Mandarin after all of that and then when I give up, suddenly Mandarin language is appealing.

UGH.

Most people my generation speak at least 3 languages and understand at least 2 different Chinese dialects, right? How can I use this in-brain auto-translate method to teach my son Mandarin is beyond me.

Anyway, it was said that Korean is the most logical language in the world. Per chance, I saved something that justified the difficulty in learning Mandarin.

Chinese is hard.

Kudos to this poet who came up with something with just the word 'shi'. My kid said if he said 'shi' enough times, he could be possibly be forming a proper sentence. LOL.

I don't know. I just don't.

Happy Wednesday night,
About to doze off,
XOXO,
Marsha

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