Week 3

你好马！

这是Ke Ni. This past week Monday, we started Lesson 9 on Phone calls, which entails things like, how to answer the phone, ask who's there, and to ask what someone is doing. For example：
你 在做什么？
我在上网。

你在忙马？
没有，我正在看电视呢。

请问您是那位？
我是爱文。
We took a check up on some of the vocab Hanzi, and beginning sentence structures and that wasn't too bad, however, I still need to work on some of my Hanzi recognition. I am trying really hard in 102, I just think that the difference between 101 and 102 is that the Hanzi recognition is more necessary than in 101 where we used mostly pinyin...so it is harder to get used to only using Hanzi and not relying solely on the pinyin for understanding.

Wednesday in class, we reviewed some of the sentence structures we have been learning. We also reviewed the V不V sentence structure: 在不在，是不是，对不对。Also, we talked about how to format the sentences for, Call me Okay? 给我打电话，怎么样？ How to say slow down: 对不起， 请满点。We also learned how to have a conversation on the phone:

位，请问你是了老师马？
我是_______.
你忙马？
你有什么摄入马？
你正在做什么摄入马？
明天，给我吃饭，怎么样？
我的手机号码是_____________.
请下课以后给我打电话。

Friday, we learned how to talk on the phone some more, and call and ask someone if they were available for dinner! We had to practice with our 同伴, saying back and for a dialogue that allowed us to understand what time we would go to dinner, if they were busy, and who we were talking too! It was really fun and funny when the boys had to call 了老师。Also, we got our packets back and I need to work on my V不V sentences some more. A few practice examples are: 他的两个时候都是不是美国人。我们太一起去纽约，怎么样？

Overall, it has been a great week! I really enjoyed learning about how to answer the phone and talk to people about making appointments and whether or not they were busy. That is very useful information that can be applied to real life, and it will be beneficial in the long run!:)

再见！

Ke Ni