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channamasala –
Just a quick announcement thingie…
Back when I said that English grammar was like play-doh and Chinese grammar was like Legos?
Tomorrow I’m going to try to finally get that point across – that Chinese is more like building a
structure of blocks and English is more like mashing words together as clay – by bringing in
Play-doh and Legos.
And yet the devils complain that class is no fun, because it’s summer and they’d rather be playing
computer games, listening to Westlife, watching basketball or talking about David Beckham’s butt.
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Anonymous –
That’s very interesting. I’ve always thought that Chinese grammar are more like blocks that you
place the blocks together to form a sentence while in English, you’d have to modify words
depending on tense, gender, plural/singular… etc.
channamasala –
Umm…yeah.
That’s what I said…
Anonymous –
Umm…yeah.
Which is exactly my point. I thought it was interesting that you and I had similiar ideas.
Umm…yeah.
channamasala –
Oh, sorry. Not enough sleep. I thought…
…well, it doesn’t matter. The students thought it was amusing that their teacher was playing
with kids’ toys but weren’t too enthused about the day’s topic. Someday they’ll appreciate the
effort that I put into making a summer intensive class in an un-airconditioned classroom (someone
fainted yesterday) NOT a bore.
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