What Dirt Minds We Have
November 26, 2010
Things we say during Elementary Chinese 102, in our elementary chinese:
Me: Make Love.
Deskmate: Can?
Me: Can.
Deskmate: While cooking, make love.
Me: He make love with his mama.
Deskmate: Can, can. I like house have many bedroom.
Me: You can make love at kitchen, at bathroom, at terrace. No need have bedroom.
Deskmate: I want buy house have five bedroom and one bathroom.
Me: Much make love in your new house.
Deskmate: Can, can. One man want lie top woman.
Me: He want live inside woman.
Deskmate: Make love very bothersome.
Me: She can eat thing of man. He can eat thing of woman.
Deskmate: Can, can.
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Chinese is more fun now that I can talk freely. Intensive courses are the best way to begin learning a language, in my opinion. And with foreign friends that are not entirely fluent in english, we end up using chinese to communicate and it’s helping our fluency immensely.
One of my friends in the class is half norwegian, and I’m slowly learning some norwegian phrases as I go along. And several of my classmates are japanese, so I’m picking up a little bit of that as well.
Of course the first things I demanded from them was
Me: You can teach me words in your language with bad meaning? Can?
Them: CAN.
I have such nice friends.
That is pretty fucking cool! You talked so much about larnin’ yerself some Chinese, but I never really thought about how good you’d actually become! Maybe your bajilliolingual dream CAN come true after all. Héhé