First all-Chinese post – 第一个汉语帖子
I want to start writing some posts in Chinese to keep a chronicle of how my character knowledge and writing ability are coming along. My goal is to not use the dictionary at all, and then ask a Chinese person to only tell me if something is totally screwed up. If nothing is horribly wrong, I then post. Some things thus aren’t going to be exactly correct, but as writing perfect Chinese is not the goal, I don’t care. If there are some large errors, such as a wrong character or a sentence that makes no sense, please let know. My vocabulary (not even factoring in that I don’t know characters for most words) is rather limited so don’t expect an essay on advanced circuit design or ancient philosophy. These posts are going to be very simplistic at the start. Thus….here it goes:
我想开始写汉语，但是我还不认识很多汉字。我给你们看看我会写的汉字，但是如果我写错了，你们需要告诉我。从开始我写容易的东西，但是我不看词典，然后你们能真的知道我的汉字水平.
现在我介绍一下儿。我叫Andy，姓Strauss。我的中国名字是安天阳。我现在住在石家庄，可是我是美国人。我是学生，我学习汉语。我非常喜欢中文，可是学汉语学得不好因为汉语发音很困难。我现在有两个中文老师。从星期一到星期五我上午八点到十点上课，下午四点到六点上课。我每天有很多作业，但是我喜欢做作业因为我知道做作业可以提高我的汉语水平。
这些天石家庄的天气越来越好了。我非常高兴因为我不喜欢天气太冷。我喜欢在外面玩儿。这个月我开始天天早上骑自行车。我很喜欢早上骑自行车因为人少，汽车也少，所以天空还没有脏呢。
我有一个中国女朋友，她叫申琦。她是唱歌的人。她又漂亮又聪明。我非常喜欢和她在一起。她做饭做得很好。我喜欢吃她的菜。
我很喜欢在中国住。我要在这里继续学习汉语，继续提高我的汉语水平。我现在不想回美国因为我越来越是中国人。
April 23rd, 2006 at 6:04 am
That is an amazing feet Andy. You definitely should post a small paragraph with a translation. Good job!
April 23rd, 2006 at 6:27 am
Thanks Elijah……why don’t you get serious about studying Chinese and then you won’t need a translation
April 23rd, 2006 at 7:42 am
What a hoot! I was afraid my computer wouldn’t show the Chinese characters, but it did. Wonderful! Yes a translation would be nice, but just seeing this effort is great. Andrew, you’re adding sunshine to my day. Much love, Grammy
April 23rd, 2006 at 7:58 am
All I can see on my computer are empty squares. A translation would be fun! Congrats on your progress! Sara
April 23rd, 2006 at 9:10 am
Andrew, The Chinese makes no sense! However the English is good.
April 23rd, 2006 at 9:32 am
I completely concur with everything you’ve said.
Except for the last part. That was messed up, man.
April 23rd, 2006 at 11:44 am
Glad you are enjoying your early morning bike rides. I didn’t know that your girlfriend sings and is a good cook. A real triople threat. Lucky you. Your sentence structure for a novice is quite good. Keep up the good work. It sounds as if China has another digit to add to its population total. Enjoy!
April 23rd, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Hey A.J., it’s all Chinese to me… Seriamente, tu progreso es increible y la idea es muy buena de empezar a practicarla aqui. Seria bueno saber los comentarios de la persona China a quien le preguntes de tu escritura. Sigue asi que estas muy bien!
April 23rd, 2006 at 2:44 pm
Thanks everyone…..here is an autotranslation from google. Since this is an autotranslation, it makes no sense in a lot of places:
I would like to start writing Chinese language, but I do not know many characters. I write to you I will look at the characters, but if I wrote, you need to tell me. I write things easy from the beginning, but I do not look at the dictionary, and then you can really know my characters level.
I now describe abuse. I told Andy, surname Strauss. My Chinese name is the day of Shenyang. I now live in Shijiazhuang, but I am American. I was student, I learn the Chinese language. I very much like Chinese, but because Chinese language studies and a bad pronunciation difficult. I now have two Chinese teachers. I am from Monday to Friday 8:00 to 10:00 class, 16:00 to 6:00 class. I have many daily operations, but I like nothing because I know that nothing can improve my Chinese language level. Shijiazhuang weather is getting better and better these days. I am very pleased because I do not like cold weather. I like playing outside. I began on the morning of the day on bicycles. I like the morning because people are riding bicycles, vehicles were also small, so the sky has not dirty it. I have a Chinese girlfriend, she told Shen Qi. She is singing. She also was pretty smart. I am very fond and her together. Her cooking done well. I like to eat her vegetables. I like to live in China. Here I should like to continue to study Chinese language and continue to improve my Chinese language level. I do not want to return to the United States because I have is Chinese.
April 23rd, 2006 at 2:47 pm
Here is another autotranslation from Justin for you to compare and contrast…..the part about the sky’s internal organs made me smile:
I want to start to write Chinese, but I do not know very many Chinese characters. I have a look the Chinese character to you which I can write, but if I wrote mistakenly, you needed to tell me. From starts me to write the easy thing, but I do not read the dictionary, then you can really know my Chinese character proficiency Now I introduce. I call Andy, is surnamed Strauss. My Chinese name is An Tianyang. I now live in Shijiazhuang, but I am an American. I am a student, I study Chinese. I extremely like Chinese, but study Chinese studies not not well because Chinese pronunciation is very difficult. I now have two Chinese teachers. I morning eight to ten attends class from Monday to Friday, afternoon four to six attends class. I have very many works every day, but I like making the work because I knew makes the work to be allowed to raise my Chinese proficiency. These day Shijiazhuang’s weather was more and more good. I extremely happy because I do not like the weather too being cold. I like in outside playing. This month I start early morning to ride the bicycle daily. I like the early morning riding the bicycle very much because person few, the automobile are also few, therefore the sky does not have the internal organs. I have a Chinese girlfriend, she calls Shanghai the fine jade. She is the person which sings. She attractive also is intelligent. I extremely like with her in same place. She prepares food does very much well. I like eating her vegetable. I like in China living very much. I must continue in here to study Chinese, continues to raise my Chinese proficiency. I now do not want to return to US because I more and more am the Chinese.
April 23rd, 2006 at 6:51 pm
Thanks for sharing. The translations are so amusing. I am smiling inside. Aunty Terry
April 24th, 2006 at 3:05 am
寫得還不錯嘛! 看來你的漢語水平已經到了某個程度了. 我很替你高興 =) 說不定有一天我們可以用漢語交談. 還有…你看得懂繁體字嗎? =P
April 25th, 2006 at 3:37 am
Terry….glad you found it amusing
Bernard….谢谢， 因为我学习简体汉语所以我不懂很多繁体汉字。有认识的汉字，但是我需要查字典。不要说我们说不定用汉语交谈，只要你说国语，我们当然可以交谈。
May 1st, 2006 at 5:43 am
“I like eating her vegetable”
Too much information AJ!
May 1st, 2006 at 5:48 am
Alan…..hahaha…..Way to pick that out
May 12th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
写的很好，希望安天阳能多动笔写汉字，这样能更好的帮助你记忆！
我正在努力学习英语，好难噢-_-#
欢迎有机会来北京玩！
May 13th, 2006 at 1:25 am
Fu Rao…谢谢你，我也希望继续写汉字 ：）
May 17th, 2006 at 11:30 am
Hi andrew i just clicked on the USA and got the translation. Leaving for China in two days. Last you will her from me for a while. If you stay in China I know uncle Gary and I, maybe Summer will want to come visit at a later day. Thanks again for all the fun sharing with lots of aloha Terry J
P.S. Please put Terry J. when you answer me. I was confused about your reply to the other Terry? Of course I figured it out.
May 18th, 2006 at 11:22 pm
Terry J……have a great trip…..a visit would be great!!!
October 10th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
hi,写的很不错哦。但是。呵呵有些表达不很准确，比如“我现在不想回美国因为我越来越是中国人。”
如果是我，或者说一般中国人会这样表达“我现在不想回美国，因为我觉得我越来越像个中国人了。”
也许你有你的表达方式吧。已经非常非常不错了。呵呵，加油哦。
October 10th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
谢谢你的改正，这是我3年之前写的，错误不少，很别扭。我现在觉得那时快我的水平太差，呵呵