您好！
我是美国人。
中国是很美。
我喜欢喝咖啡。
我的中文不好。
I can read, write, and pronounce all of that. Without Google Translate. What I'm really proud of, however, is that I have sort of started thinking in Chinese. Little itty bitty phrases, like please, thank you, goodbye, and my name is.....
It's cool.
再见！
Ni hao!
ReplyDeleteWo shi meiguo ren.
The problem with Chinese characters is that they aren't phonetic. (Never thought I'd ever complain about a lack of phonics. . .)
But you should be proud of me. I understood about a quarter before translating, and about half afterwards.
Zai jian!
Oooh!! I AM proud of you.
ReplyDeleteWell they /are/ phonetic in the sense that you always say them the same way. =P
Hen hao. :)
They are not phonetic in the sense that you can't look at them and sound them out. :-P
ReplyDeleteXie xie. :-)