Chinese class..!!

These days I've been haunted by a new interest:Chinese. Well to begin vid, Chinese is a unique language vid lot many dialects ..but Mandarin is considered d official one .. Locally known as Pu Tong Hua, itz the most widely spoken language in the world!
Chinese is complex in itz pronounciation.there are highly varying inflections vich wud leave a casual listener wondering wat mood the speaker is in..!!
A simple word 'ma' pronouncd in 4 different ways can mean anything frm mother to horse to an enquiry...!!
Another peculiarity of Chinese is its script..Apparently der r more than 50,000 characters ,but not to panic, the Chinese Govt has decreed dat ppl knowin 1000 to 1500 characters wud b called literates..but u still need to know 3000 characters to read a newspaper ...!! :P

Chinese classes in d collg are being really entertaining... v get one bookmark evry clz vich has a simple 3 word sentence in it..and one day my bookmark read "Wo ai Ni" ....any guess wat it means?? "I love u" and thus my scope widened..!!! ;) :P

And in case u r interested .. "Ni jiao Shen ma meng zi" ...is watz ur name and
"Zhu ni sheng ri kuai le" is happy b'day to u ofcourz vid proper pronouciations...!!

Also d Chinese library in TT001 has loads of books on Chinese culture...!! Pretty excited to explore the interesting land beyond the Great Wall ..!!


Zai jian(gud bye) :)