he's babbling about Chinese again

[opabinia]

1. I've fallen off the Pimsleur Wagon. (The Pimsleur Junk?)
2. Li is borrowing lab space.


Me: Ni hao.
Hello.

Li: (puzzled, then amused) ...Ni hao.
Hello.

Me: Wo shuo de bu hao.
I don't speak well.

Li: (shakes head). Hen hao. Hen hao.
[You speak] very well. Very well.

Me: ...Hen hao?! Xie xie.
Very well?! Thank you.

...

Me: That was 40% of my Mandarin. I told him I don't speak well.

Boss: Oh. Hm.

Me: Or maybe I just insulted his entire lineage from the Zhou Dynasty on.

Boss: snort

Comments

[xenoglaux]

How is Pimsleur to use?
I've been looking at that and Rosetta stone and it seems Pimsleur is much cheaper...

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

For Mandarin? It's boring, but it's OK. You just sit there and listen over and over and over and over...

Oh -- avoid the Michel Thomas Method for Mandarin at all costs.