Zhongwen hen nan Da jia hao. wo zhongwen dong de bu duo. Jintian zao shang xia yu le. Xianzai taiyang lai le. wo you liang ge liang che. xi huan kai che. wo erzi shang wu kai che. ta kai zhe che de deng. xianzai dian ping mei zuo. Chinese is very hard: Hell everybody. I don't understand much Chinese. This morning it rained. now the sun is out. I have two cars. I like driving. My son drove the car at midday. He left the lights on. Now the battery is flat.

Xie xie Ted he Ruby Many thanks to Ted and Ruby for correcting/commenting on my notebook entry. Qing wen. Wo dong bu duo zhongwen, ye bu duo hanzi ye bu duo pinyin. shi ji shang wo yi dian bu dong hanzi. yinci wo xuexi weiyi de pinyin. wo xiang shuo zhongwen. wo bu yao du zhongwen. Wo ju jue yong hanzi. Ru guo ni bu xi huan wo de pinyin, nimen he wo bu neng pengyoumen. Wo bu dong si shengdiao. wo shi yi shi dan shi wo congshi wang le. I am sorry if this sounds impolite. I will say it in English: I don't know much Chinese - neither characters nor phonics. In fact I don't know characters at all, therefore I study only phonics.I would like to speak Chinese. I don't want to read Chinese. I refuse to use characters. If you don't like phonics, then you and I cannot be "friends". I don't understand the 4 tones. I try, but I always forget. Also: I learn by remembering phrases like "wo juede ni hen piaoliang", "jintian tianqi feichang hao" "Qing ni zuo" "qing gei wo yi bei pijiu" "qing wen cesuo zai nali" "wo zhu zai Albany" "wo shi aodaliyaren" "ni hui shuo zhongwen ma?" etc, etc. I don't remember any of the tones in any of these phrases, but I remember the complete phrase - through repetition. Ni ming bai le ma?

Shi Shi wo shi shi shuo zhongwen dan shi wo bu hui shuo zhongwen. wo bu hao. wo juede wo fyao fang zhi. zhongwen tai nan. wo xu yao yi ge zhongwen de haizi ye yong pinyin ye hen congming de. cheng nian ren de zhongguo bu xi huan pinyin.