zuo2tian1 xia4wu3 wo3 zuo2tian1 xia4wu3 qu4 yu3yan2 ju4le4bu4 , fu4xi2 zhong1wen2 Yesterday afternoon I went to a language club, so that I could practice speaking Chinese. wo3 xian1 jue2de (?) yu3yan2 ju4le4bu4 hen3nan2 , ke3shi4 zhe4shi4 rong2yi4 Originally I thought the language club would be a bit difficult for me. I expected everyone to be speaking a high level of Mandarin and that I would just sit around and try to understand as much as I could. I was a bit nervous going there, but once I arrived it was fine, everyone was friendly and easy to talk to. zai4 yu3yan2 ju4le4bu4 you3 liu4ge4 ao4da4li4ya4 ren2 , yi1ge4 ma3lai2xi1ya4ren2 , yi1ge4 tai2wan1ren2 , yi1ge4 xiang1gang2ren2 , he2 liang3ge4 zhong1guo2ren2 At the language club I met six Australians, one Malaysian, one Taiwanese person, and two Chinese people. zai4na4 ao4da4li4ya4 ren2 chang2chang2 shuo1de ying1wen2 The people there often spoke in English, especially the Australians :) Although they often said various Chinese words, they tended to only say one or two words at a time. Occasionally they mentioned some common Chinese phrases. In other words, many of the people there used English sentences to communicate, but mentioned various Chinese words here and there, to learn vocabulary. yi1ge4 xiang1gang2ren2 he2 wo3 shuo1de pu3tong1hua4 , ke3shi4 wo3 you3shi2hou bu2zhi1dao4 shen2me yi1si I spoke Mandarin Chinese with the guy from Hong Kong, and I was able to communicate with him a little bit, but I sometimes couldn't understand what he was saying. I'm not sure whether he was saying words that I haven't yet learned, or whether he was mispronouncing some words, or whether my listening skills were not good enough to hear what he was saying. He could understand everything that I was saying to him. Anyway, it was fun talking to him. ke3neng2 xia4ge4 zhou1mo4 ju4le4bu4 you3 hen3duo1 zhong1guo2 ren2 Maybe next weekend there will be lots of Chinese people at the language club. One of the regulars there told me that they usually have lots of Chinese people there and only a few Australians, but this time it was the other way around. wo3 jue2de yu3yan2 ju4le4bu4 hen3you3yi1si , wo3 ke3neng2 xia4ge4 zhou1mo4 qu4 yu3yan2 ju4le4bu4 zai4ci4 Overall I felt that going to the language club was an interesting experience, maybe next weekend I will go there again.