Waking up late on a lazy Saturday afternoon, I quickly grabbed the remote control beside me. I clicked on CCTV 9, the only English channel that is available out of more than 50 channels. The show was a documentary about a Royal wedding of a princess in Sweden. Oh, so it's a political fairy tale. I was not so interested so I transferred to CCTV 5. As usual coverage about the World Cup, well I watched few of their matches because I have to know some of the famous people in Football in order to relate with my students' interest. It was hard since the commentator is speaking in Chinese, but I was glad I'm picking up some expressions while watching the show. I remember some words such as Piàoliang! (beautiful), Hǎo! (good), Měiguó (USA), Fàguó (France), Àodàlìyǎ (Australia), Xībānyá (Spain), and few others. It's nice to learn some new words that I know will stay in my long term memory since I can relate it to the event. I am now serious about learning Chinese. It's my goal to speak the language within a year, so I must use whatever resources I can find. Talking about studying Chinese, I have to go back to my lesson now, self learning Chinese using Rocket Chinese!
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