Back to our to-do-list...

  

We don’t know when, but we know we WILL (in a very near future) go to China to get our baby girl, so we have to prepare.  

Learning basic Chinese words (on our to-do list for a while now) We just haven’t gotten around it,  we were just way too preoccupied with our dossier preparation to focus on learning a new language.  

Ok so now that we are done with the paperwork craziness we think it’s about time to get started…

Not so fast…

 As much as we would love to learn Chinese (Mandarin) language, we know it is a seriously difficult language to learn.  In order to learn the language you have to learn thousands of characters (not exaggerating) not to mention that you must learn how to pronounce the words. Two words may be spelled exactly the same but depending on the pronunciation they may have different meanings for example: that guòjiǎng means "you flatter me" while guǒjiàng means "fruit paste". Imagine we are trying to express our gratitude and end up cursing someone by accident (what a nightmare!) Not happening,so we will settle just by learning a few basic words to be polite.

Ni hao= Hello

Ni hao ma=How are you

 xie-xie=thank you

zai jian_ good bye

 Wo ai ni (love you) we will saying this  a lot :0)

Yeah, it doesn’t get any simpler than that.

  

First I wanted to check out pronunciation,so I went on YouTube to check out videos  and found these (Kid level of course :0)   learn Chinese with Emma     

Guess it’s a start,

                                         Maybe we should get one of this…

                                                       Or this one :0)