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I like learning different languages. My best language is Chinese (Mandarin). I have been learning this for a year and a half. Most Sundays and in the holidays I have a one hour lesson. My teacher is called Xiao Ye and she lives in Foshan which is near Guangzhou in the south of China. I am only learning to understand and speak the language. I might learn how to read and write in Chinese when I am older. I also go to French club at school and we do some German at school too. I have also now had 2 Russian lessons at my local library. At least I will be able to read the signs on the train and in Moscow!
Here is my version of the story of the origin of the dragon boat festival for my Chinese teacher Xiao Ye, who lives in Guangdong Province in China:
 
 
Qu yuan shi min zu ying xiong. Ta tou jiang zi jin yin wei jin zhu hen fu bai he jin zhu bu xihuan ta. Zheng shang de ren hen shang xin yin ta men xi huan Qu yuan. Zong zi bu yu chi Qu Yuan de shen ti. Long zhou sai ji nian Qu Yuan hou dong.

 

 

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Here are some links to some good sites for helping learn Chinese.

WeiliPod - this is me doing some of my own Chinese teaching! Wei Li is my Chinese name.

Chinesepod - this is the first website that we used to help us learn Chinese and is really good and there are really friendly people there.

This website here is also really good for translating English into Pin Yin and has a good dictionary.

           

Languages that I would like to learn in the future are:

  1. Arabic
  2. More French
  3. More German
  4. Spanish
  5. Italian

 

This summer I am going to Mongolia and Russia and I have got some phrase books for those countries so I will hopefully be able to say a few words in Russian and Mongolian by the time I get home.