Me-go: Around-the-World

I just finished up a conversational Chinese class at my local junior college. The decision between French and Chinese was hard to make but I decided that China would be more difficult to travel in without knowing the language than certain the parts of Africa that favor French.

The course was 8 weeks long and had a lot of vocabulary. Learning Mandarin wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be, but I do get it confused with Spanish sometimes. For instance, I (me) in Chinese is “wo” and in Spanish is “yo”. Both languages use “de” as a possessive but are pronounced differently. The class familiarized me with the language and I can put together basic sentences. I should be able to order train tickets, shop at a market and answer the usual questions about myself and my family. I suspect I will be asked what I do, however I haven’t figured out how to say “designer” yet. I may just say “I make books” which I do know how to say.