🇨🇳Today I had a funny meeting with my friends from another linguistics program - Arabic. They often have classes next to my Chinese conversation room and hear us discussing there. They overhear a lot of what's going on there (for example, two weeks ago we had rhythm games to quickly respond to commands in Chinese) and they said that if we keep up this speed with learning, we'll be able to speak Chinese very well in matter of few months. It was funny to see their faces when I said, "Girls, but this year we ONLY have conversations lectures, presentations or even now we have organised conversations with native speakers." It's funny because they're a year ahead of me (I was with them but changed my course) and don't talk much in their classes.
🇨🇳 From what they said, their professor said she envies our program because we already speak at such a high level. Mind you when I was with them on a first year of Arabic linguistic we had zero conversation classes and we had one exam with speaking at very end of the second semester – before that we didn’t have any conversation we mainly focused on grammar and vocabulary, we didn’t even have a textbook just some prints from our professors.
🇨🇳Obviously we all laugh because of this fact but I feel bad for them, because they at 3rd year and I am sure they speak now pretty well but not on a casual topics? I remember when I registered for Chinese course, in Arabic I could only introduce myself as my name is…I am from this county this city - and that was all…after a year…because all year we were doing sentences like “the chief had 24 red cars and a factory with many workers” (I wish to joke about it but its literally from notebook)
