One Month Evaluation

It has been four weeks of classes and spending time in Taiwan now. Chinese is a hell of a lot harder than I thought it was going to be, and there is no way that I'm going to be anything close to fluent in my short time here in Taiwan. If I can get to a point where I can speak Chinese and just get my "basic" point across, then I'll be happy. Sure, my grammar will be horrific, and my tones will probably be awful, but if I can do it only doing it using Chinese, I'll be more than happy.

I'm going to spend the next 2 months focusing on learning key important words and trying to listen and speak. I'm not going to spend any extra time learning characters, this is just inefficient use of such a short period of time.

Oh yeah Macau...if you've been to Vegas, don't bother. People were pretty rude and it was just overall a really strange city. Four languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, Portuguese and English and three currencies: China, Hong Kong and Macau dollars. They did have good beer there, but I can go the rest of my life never going there again and not lose any sleep over it. At least in Vegas, I get a free drink and smile when I'm losing my money.

Jim