<p>Of course I'm not kidding you. That's like Chinese 1. What do you want me to do write you a poem? 神經病 :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Ignoring that.</p>
<p>Do it, man. Pull a Li Bai.</p>
<p>I forgot all the well-known poems :[</p>
<p>i can't do pinyin for ****, and i can't read zuyinfuhau anymore, so i can't write.... </p>
<p>but surely you know</p>
<p>tsuan chien min yue guan
yi si di san suan
ju tou wan min yue
di tou si gu shian</p>
<p>(it helps if you read it out loud)</p>
<p>found it!</p>
<p>床前明月光，
疑是地上霜。
舉頭望明月，
低頭思故鄉。</p>
<p>wait why is it in simpf</p>
<p>Simplified Chinese is a disgrace. Traditional all the way =D</p>
<p>How about the Japanese at UCLA? Are the professors good?</p>
<p>Professors? Graduate Students?</p>
<p>Japanese is quite well-taught, if you ask me.</p>
<p>really? 'cause I very desperately want to learn japanese, but I found out recently they only offer Japanese 1 fall quarter, so if I want to take it, I have to wait until next year :(</p>
<p>I'm trying to self-learn.....it's coming along VERY badly</p>
<p>
[quote]
床前明月光，
疑是地上霜。
舉頭望明月，
低頭思故鄉。
[/quote]
</p>
<p>Here is the google automatic translation of the above Chinese. Is it accurate?</p>
<p>Moonlight before,
Suspected ground frost.
Wang cited the first moon,
Reith bow hometown.</p>
<p>er... it sounds funny. i don't even know what reith means.</p>
<p>i had to do poetry reciting bs when i was in chinese school (left in 5th grade)</p>
<p>in front of my bed, the moonlight reflects off the ground like frost
i raise my head and gaze at the moon, and lower my head and remember my hometown</p>
<p>Wow the google translation is terrible.</p>
<p>My little cousin knew that one when she was like, three. </p>
<p>I learned it in the fourth grade. <em>bows head in shame</em></p>
<p>Yeah I knew this when I was three as well, except it was in Canto, then I learned it in Mandarin in Kindergarten or something.</p>
<p>How's Chinese 1? Is it competitive? How often do you do speeches or presentations for that class? I'm thinking of learning Chinese next year. :[</p>
<p>Is it just chinese 1? Or 1A? Chinese 1 isn't so bad.... It's not like a omg I want a higher grade I'll kill you for it type of environment. It just depends on you and how much you study. The more you study the characters and dialogues the better you do. The people are friendly too.</p>
<p>For 1A I know you do speeches, but for chinese 1 I don't remember needing to do speeches. We only had a group project. The final is the week before actual finals week and it's basically just a test. We had I think 3 tests? A group project...and...one quiz a week I believe. Or was it every two weeks.... I think we had to read a paragraph aloud for an oral test towards the end, but you could do that privately in a room, or at least my TA let us. Besides that...it wasn't that bad. </p>
<p>It's a lot of fun, though Japanese is more fun from what I hear. ;D</p>
<p>If you know French, you practically know Spanish and Italian. a Pain in any other language is still bread.</p>
<p>Paix. Pace.</p>
<p>chinese 1(a) is only offered fall quarter...</p>
<p>1a involves a quiz every lecture (2/week), speech, skit, and midterm. maybe some other things plus homework. no final.</p>
<p>Thanks rosedust, that's very informative. :] Sorry I was talking about 1A. I guess I have to start studying this summer so I'll be prepared (<em>listens to some How to Speak Chinese podcast</em>) :P Btw how's the workload/learning speed for Chinese or other foreign languages courses here at UCLA in general? I mean I could barely keep up with high school spanish... T___T</p>
<p>Hey if I want to minor in Chinese, and passed the AP Chinese with a 5, what Chinese should I start with?</p>
<p>I'm not sure about 1A...but I know 1 was an okay pace...:3 You have to put in time for it though. :) Chinese 4 is an entirely different story >_<</p>
<p>Yahooo - You should talk to the asian languages minor counselor at Royce. You might have to take a placement exam still, though I'm not entirely sure about this. =)</p>