Earlier this month, while browsing internet for leisure, I stumbled up on a site that teach people to learn Mandarin for free. The website is http://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/chinese.

I spent a about half an hour trying the lesson and It has sparked my interest further. I googling for mandarin class at JB and found a few of it. Finally, after comparing and evaluating, I choose to contact this blog owner - http://easymandarin2u.blogspot.com/

After meeting with the lǎo shī (teacher); I join the class for basic Mandarin. The fee is RM200 for 10-12 learning hours (2 hours x 6 weekday nights), which is fair enough for me.

Interestingly, the concept is tailor made for an adult. We have been taught to speak/pronounce the Chinese words (pin yin) in Malay style. Oh… Did I mention that the lǎo shī herself is a Malay? The classes in on weekday night depend on which group you’re joining in. Luckily my group is rather small and we had an opportunity to interact more with the teacher.

The learning was fun as a total beginner; we speak like a robot, word by word. For myself, I had a difficulty to differentiate the sound of words that start with zh, ch or sh which all sound like “c” to me.

As a conclusion, it is great to learn a new language. Practice is a must. Do you know how to speak Mandarin? Or at least understand it? For me, yes, I wish I do learn Mandarin before…My purpose can be for work, personal or social purpose. Also, I can’t be wrong to learn the world most widely spoken language… Mandarin. ( http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/worldlang.htm )

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Happy National Day to all Malaysian.

Lets hope all the political havoc and chaos in Malaysia did not break our unity and racial harmony. Let us not losing our mind, follow our raging heart, eagerly to recreate another bloody 13 May. e.g. Section 23 resident.

Lets pray that all the cases and issues like DSAI sodomy, Kampung Buah Pala, Perak State power struggle, cow head protest by Section 23 Shah Alam resident, Port Klang Free Zone scandals, Teoh Beng Hock death etc will be settled as soon as possible, in a best way that all the ‘real’ culprits will be punished deservely and no more resources wasted for these.

Let us to work together as a bangsa Malaysia to survive the ‘real’ & far more important issue which I beleived is the economy crisis.

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Astro price increase RM12 for sport packages? Only last month, I’ve let go Movie Channel to save RM30+- per month. Damn!

Sign petition here:-

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/petition-sign.cgi?astropce

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