Second Foreign Language

HI, everyone! My faculty also has a second foreign language class in the third and fourth term. I'm learning Chinese. It is difficult for me to learn Chinese, but it is interesting.

Chinese is difficult to pronounce. In Chinese, there are four ways to pronounce even if it's the same word. If you make a mistake in pronunciation, it may have a completely different meaning. For example, the pronunciation "MA". It means mother, hemp, horse, Scold. There are four kinds of pronunciation and each meaning is different, so there are many words. Don't you think it's difficult? One salvation is that it's similar to Japanese kanji. If I look at Chinese kanji, I can roughly understand the meaning.

My Chinese class is on demand. I thought two-way class would be better, but it's convenient to listen to audio many times on demand. There are three face-to-face classes in one term. Our Chinese teacher teaches us a lot about China. Recently, it's getting fun to study Chinese.

Since entering the three term, the grammar has become difficult. The example sentence in our textbook are a little interesting. Among them, I'll introduce some of the example sentence that made me laugh the most.

"There are so many animals here, but who is the king of animals?"

"That's the director of the zoo."

What do yo think?? I thought the lion was the king of animals! I laughed in spite of the unexpected answer.