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Q: What Chinese word took you the longest to remember?
For some reason certain words are super easy for me to remember, while others, not even particularly difficult per se, just don't register in my brain.
14 years 7 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
it should be one of the words which i still dont remember... so.. i cant give you correct answer yet... ever.. ..
My last girlfriend would say that the hardest word for me to remember was bu- hui ”不会“ (you can't) especially in regards to my going out....
there are a few that my wife wants me to forget (swearing words)
tomato....in Chinese it is 西红柿 and in pin yin it is
Xī hóng shì.....it took me ages to get this word right and keep it in mind
'Eyes' and 'glasses' ('yanjing' and 'yanjing'); I get the tones for these mixed up constantly. That's where the problem lies, in creating mental blocks around certain words.
Many of my students have the same problem with 'potato' and 'tomato', so I always teach them to remember that "Tom the tomato's hair is bright bright red", then I tell them to piss off out of my office, i'm playing video games.
Well its weird how some words just wont stick. The two that Ive learned and forgot the most are "or" (always confuse 还是 and 还有) and "The UN" 联合国. I looked up both on my phone dictionary today for the umpteenth time.
....sad thing is I will probably have to look them up again next time.
"Forest"
Seriously. I finally remembered how to say "tree" after about 5 years learning Chinese, but Forest... I just won't remember. And that's still after getting quite a good Chinese from 3 years in China's "best" Chinese-teaching University.
