每天我 忘记 两至五个话。I forget 2-5 words everyday. This is based on last Christmas when we had a new baby and had a lot of things to do and I was not able to sleep or do my studies. I realized in order to prevent this I have to consider a more drastic strategy. Particularly learning enough of a vocabulary to translate all my notes and studies into plain speaking chinese.
One of my challenges is that I can’t find anyone to speak chinese too. My wife has stopped studying it and our son needs to practice his Filipino more. Also the App that facilitates finding people to speak chinese about its scammy/shady and will have my wife ever suspicious of me (its because i tend to get unsolicited propositions; because there is nothing more attractive than a man who can maintain a household and pay the bills).
All the other options our out of reach and it seems I may have to go deep inside my own brain to have mental conversations in chinese lolz. Sometimes I surprise myself when I say chinese outloud. There is a growing subdivide about my chinese proficiency and my regular self. It surprises me when I can speak chinese sometimes – evidence of how much I completely compartmentalize the rest of my life with the studies – and the more I should write in chinese.
I should start doing my updates in chinese. lolz. (annoyingly the app is currently buggy 🙁 )
On filipino. I hate it when “nationalism” trumps practicality. Filipino is of declining use. Its just tribal signaling, which means its good enough to signal that one is filipino but impractical for many of the demands of the world my son and daughter will be growing into.
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