Sunday, February 3, 2008

The Ultimate Mother Tongue Regression

This morning, I was writing a note to my mum and I realized I've forgotten how to write 'fridge' in Chinese!

I was trying to write the words 'bing1 xiang1' and I had to look up the Chinese dictionary for the 'xiang'.

That's how much my Chinese has regressed!

I remember vividly my final Chinese lesson in Sec 4. Our teacher was giving us a pep talk on scoring well for the O Levels and she said if we passed our Chinese, she would be our 'mo4 dai4' (final) Chinese teacher.

Well, I did pass and so that was the last time I'd ever attended a Chinese lesson.

That was in 1997, and ever since, there hasn't been an occasion when I need to write anything longer than a sentence in Chinese :(

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