Week 2

你好！

On Monday, we had a vocab check up that tested us on some of the vocab from lesson eight as well as some of the new sentence structures we have learned! I quickly learned that Chinese 102 is not as easy as Chinese 101, and that I need to study more for the quizzes. I got confused by some of the Hanzi:(
After that, we practiced the new sentence structure we learned using the V不V, for example, 是不是，有不没有。In Chinese the double negatives cancel out and make a positive when asking a question so that it can be a positive statement! I thought that was very interesting. We also played a game where myself, and three other opponents competed to see who could come up with the most sentences using the double negative structure, and I won! I was really excited about that. Some of the vocab that we learned for this week was: 认识，去， 上课，下课，以后，想，吃，饭，吃饭，今天，下次，怎么样，再见。

On Wednesday, we reviewed in the beginning some of the terms from section 8 and then took another check up quiz. I thought this one was a little bit easier than the one we recieved on Monday, however, it was still difficult. I am hoping the more I practice, the more I will retain and remember. We also learned that if you add 吧 to the end of most sentences it creates a question! I thought that was also another interesting fact to know. It makes it easier when you are creating sentences to know that that is a key word you can add to create a important sentence!

Friday, we learned more about what to expect when doing your blog posts, as well as dialogue back and forth about how to make an appointment. It was fun because we had to create a situation between our partners (there were three of us) between a dad, boyfriend, and girlfriend, and the boyfriend was asking the father's permission to take the girl out. Naturally, I was the boyfriend so it was really funny to write.

Overall, it was a difficult week, but worth it! I am definitely adjusting back to being in Chinese again after the long break, and look forward to what the term has in store! Also I have been attempting to learn how to play 对不起, on the guitar!

再见！

Courtney