How much Mandarin do you remember from your school days ? ..

Fatum SG

Well ... this thread has it's genesis in the Crapbox ... but it's something interesting to think about eh ? .... Razz

So ... How much Mandarin, written and spoken, if that was your mother tongue in school ... do you remember now ? ... Wink

FireIce SG

was very good

still very good

Rhonda SG

Chinese and Maths were my worst subjects in school! Always rank amongst the first few... from the bottom one! Razz Embarassed

Spoken, can get by. Pretty ok.

Written... erm... kinda non-existent by now. Razz

Mr. Green

Fatum SG

well ... I surf the Chinese web every now and then ... so I think I can get by on my written Mandarin ...

I think I'm starting to get an accent because the only time I get to speak Mandarin over here would be when I'm around the Chinese students here ... Laughing

shade343 SG

I was an ang moh lang. Working in an environment where I occasionally dealt with tourist forced me to speak chinese….and now, my ang moh accent is gone…

Ito_^ SG

ok not bad juz the writting part can die

shinta SG

can read, can write, but when i write them out, they look like some alien symbols..

Laughing

my chinese writing sux... ugly!

FBI SG

writing sux big time, say still can.

choco B SG

I don't remember much Mandarin DURING my school days to start with. Razz So now , I read and write with the bare minimum.

shinta SG

nel can read, can converse, in mandarin... but he's hopeless when it comes to writing..

Laughing

that'd be quoting him

loveholyspirit SG

Reading is definitely no problem i can understand comics completely, writing would be a problem.

Rhonda SG

At one stage, I was so inspired by a Qiong Yao TV series (and nope, NOT the ku1 ku1 ti2 ti2 ones! Razz ) that I attempted to read the trilogy! It was the Plum Blossom Trilogy.

Man... every paragraph, I had to flip my dictionary to find out what a word was. Razz Quite tiring but I managed to finish the trilogy! Mr. Green

What a huge effort, man! Laughing

Razz Embarassed

FireIce SG

now u can move on to the Six Dreams (liu ge meng)

sbst275 SG

Still remember quite a lot..

But if you ask to write in hanyu pinying, get F grade Laughing Embarassed

FireIce SG

proven!

The man who was death SG

Sometimes i think i regconise big 5 chinese words better than simplified, cos watch too much taiwan variety shows see their subtitles.

Also, kinda wierd surfing chinese site in simplified, dunno why more familiar with big 5

hisoka SG

i same as nel lor writing all forgot liaoz cos no need to write one Mr. Green

littlestream SG

Was okay before

But improved tremendously......after living in Canada. Embarassed

Oral and reading - no prob.

Typing - still can because got selection mah

Writing - forget it! Torture!!!!

Kuali Baba SG

Pretty much the same here. Laughing

thoreldan SG

i still remember man jiang hong by yue fei from my chinese literature
but i struggle to write a simplest sentence Embarassed