Learning Mandarin is not an easy job!!!

I would like to start by mentioning that Mandarin is one of the hardest languages to study.  But nowadays, I also need to admit that it is one of the most important languages to learn.  Especially when you are staying and living in Malaysia, it is necessary for you to know Mandarin besides the national language, Bahasa Melayu.

I start to realize that, Mandarin is so important when I step into college life.  My family as well as my friends told me earlier, to learn Mandarin as extra language after I finished the high school.  But due to time consumption I didn't take any effort to learn it.

Now studying Mandarin as my forth language helped me realize the many other languages out there that most people have no idea how wonderful they are.  Mandarin is a language full of meaning, history, and art.

I started my class this year onwards together with my brother.  My teacher to whom I learned to call 'lau shi' - if you know Mandarin, you know that in English it means teacher, well she had a hard task and her work consisted of teaching newcomers basic words that could help us to have a brief and polite conversation with any person around us.  I thoroughly enjoyed the class and yes, I was totally surprised at myself and the language.  Can you believe it or not? There was NO grammar in Mandarin...

It requires a lot of patience to learn a language especially Mandarin.  The words are so tricky for me to write and I need to follow step by step to write it.  Besides that, when my teacher taught us to say "Hi, how are you?" in Mandarin, and when she gave me my translated name I simply couldn't stop telling people around my name, and asking around how they were doing.  It was so exciting for me to know two simple questions that make a huge difference and hope I will speak fluent Mandarin one day soon.

It is fun to learn extra language :)

Thisha