I asked all of my students on the first day to fill out note cards with answers to the following questions:
- Name (in Chinese Characters):
- Name (in Pinyin):
- English name:
- Why do you want to learn English?
- Questions/comments for me?
Today's Category
Completely Incomprehensible
Completely Incomprehensible
In "Completely Incomprehensible", points are awarded for managing a complete miscommunication on some level. And the top five are...
#5Name: Sun Yuan Ze
Why English?: "My sister think".
I'm even fairly handy with Chinese, and I have no idea what this is supposed to mean.
#4 Name: Liang Shuang
Why English?: "No why ways."
**Bonus Points**
+1 -- English name: "Kay"
I am fairly certain she was trying to say that she doesn't have a choice in the matter. Is that what you're getting here?
I am fairly certain she was trying to say that she doesn't have a choice in the matter. Is that what you're getting here?
#3Name: He Ye
"I like music"
The funny thing is, this guy had like 4 other guys helping him write his card. I wonder if he actually likes music, or if he just has no idea what this says?
...Good talk.
#2Name: Wang Xiao Yu
Why English?: ????????
Apparently this guy misunderstood the directions. I just hope it wasn't anything important.
#1And my personal category-favorite, coming in at #1, is Peng Yu.
Why English?: "Funny!"
Yeah... I guess it is.
(Stay tuned this week for more on the Note Card Series!)
7 comments:
I haven't laughed this hard at the comp in a while, so thanks for that! Brilliant. I must say they do have good penmanship though.
english is indeed funny... also perhaps similarly to Thai - my students could not comprehend the difference between fun and funny no matter how times i explained it... nor could they grasp that you couldn't feel fun or have funny - so perhaps she was trying to suck up and tell you English was fun? actually she was probably just trying to say she wanted to date you ;)
I am in tears.
Jackson,
Your blog is freaking awesome!!! I tried to stop reading it like five times to go study, but I just couldn't. You are totally screwed, by the way. With all these cute asians after you constantly, you won't be able to contain yourself! I miss you brother. Let me know that plane ticket website, for serious!
-Shardow
i agree with the guy above me: this is an awesome blog! btw, if you haven't already translated it, the guy who answered in chinese said that he wanted to learn english because he wanted to master a foreign language, and also to give him an advantage in... a computer major? he also asked how he could become better at memorizing...some sort of english vocab? and if he needs to review the all the vocab every day.
Hahaha thanks; I hadn't actually bothered trying to translate. My reading and writing are far inferior to my speaking (ie- almost non-existent =)).
Wang Xiaoyu:
why English? "To better grasp a foreign language, and to benefit my Computing major."
questions: "How do you proficiently memorize those hard-to-pronounce English vocab items? Do you have to review vocab daily to learn English?
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