Week Five

Ni hao!

On Monday of this week we started off the class learning about bu shou- radicals, by taking a short checkup on them. Some of the following radicals we were quizzed on were: mu, you, yan, ren, xi,huo, and xin. It was interesting to learn the meaning for a lot of these radicals had a strong significance on the word that they created. Next, we worked on some sentence structures such as: "Na shi shenme?" or "What's that?" and "Na shi shei?" or "Who's that?" and lastly, "Ni xue shenme?" or "What do you study?". We also learned how to say what we study, for example, since I am an international business major, I would say, "Wo xue guo ji shang ye". That means, "I study international business".

Wednesday, we started the class with yet another homework checkup. This checkup was all about seeing if we understand the sentence structures and answers  that we learned Monday in class, and reorganizing the hanzi of these sentences into the correct order. After that, Sun Laoshi, told us to choose a word or phrase that we found most difficult from Chapter four and write the hanzi on a sheet of paper. For example, some of the hanzi was 难，可是， 很多， 书。 Those words signify, nan-hard, keshi-but, henduo-a lot, and shu-book. We took some time reviewing these and helping our class helper guess these words when they were hidden from him

Friday in class, we started out look at radicals again, and the various meanings of those! Next we moved on to names, and discussed all of our classmates names in Chinese, and lastly went around the room and asked various people their chinese name and major!!

All in all, this week was interesting! It was cool to see how to say what we were majoring and studying in college. It kind of helps you relate more to what you are learning, when you feel the subject is assisting you in the kinds of things that are related to you. This week I have finished working on my midterm project for the class, which takes my major's of International business and Marketing, and applies them to the Chinese Market. In my project, I studied how McDonald's brought their company over to China, and how they had to/attempted to alter their business structure to fit China's culture. For this project, I interviewed Wang Laoshi. It will be interesting to see what the class thinks of my project!

More next week, Zai Jian!!

Ai Ke Ni