My bloody Chinese is bloody disappearing faster than…something that disappears really fast. Don’t bug me, it’s late.
I’m thinking of taking Chinese off my resume because I can’t whip it out right away llike I used to. Don’t make obvious jokes. I think I could still speak quite well after a few days back in a Chinese speaking environment but the last time I tried to make conversation with a mainland chinese RN it turned into an embarrassing ordeal, and this after my grandmother had spent a week telling her that her grandson “speaks chinese.”
diulian de budeliao
I never understand this ‘forgetting a language’ thing…I must do smoe research on it.
I have heard so many people say the same thing as you but have found it so hard to understand. I speak Japanese and left Japan in 2006. I can still speak and read with no problems whatsoever.
Just a few questions:
how good where you?
When did you leave a Chinese speaking enviroment?
how much exposure do you get to Chinese now?
Hi, yamato.
I was good enough to read a YA novel in Chinese, write to my friends online and tell them about my day, and have moderately complex conversations about politics with my taiwanese girlfriend. I wouldn’t say I was fluent, but I wasn’t any slouch, either. This was at the end of 3 years of speaking chinese almost every day.
A few years ago I would have said the same thing you are saying now. I didn’t think it would be possible for me to forget a language, and in fact it takes me longer than most people to lose fluency, yet here we are : (
-fixed some embarrassing spelling errors
get back on the bike dude.
I never took a class. just been learning Mandarin on my own for four years; also with the help of friends everytime I visit Taiwan.
Just do what I do. Everytime I am with friends, drinking, I practice my Mandarin Chinese. It’s fun. I’m drunk, they are drunk, so who cares?
Or do what I also do; Keep referring to your notebook/dictionary to keep up with words and phrases.
Once you get down the tones and pronunciations you should be fine.
Just keep speaking,… what else can you do.
If you lost it the language then find it again. sheesh, it didn’t go anywhere. maybe you did though.
BUT, PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT.
don’t be a slacker. keep it up.