F2F Class Notes (Nicholas) [S]

Next class please continue to correct his speaking story. Uncorrected version pasted here now:

Chinese people and Japanese people the appearance of them are simialr. if we don’t speak, maybe you can’t recognize; but the spirits of them are different. Maybe Japanese people the cooperationg spirit are maybe better than Chinese people because Japan is a very small island they have to cooperate with eachother. My country is so bigger than Japan. If I can’t live in hell, I can go to another area. Too big. In ancient China our resouce were more plentiful than Japan so people — it was easy for people living in an area. So maybe we don’t need to cooperate with each other very much.

So in ancient China if people had enough food they didn’t want to change anything so the every dynasty changed, the leaders were always be pro-man who didn’t have enough food or house — or the leader was flown/from the isolated areas. For example, Qing’s country borders was in Shaanxi province, in that time, there was very very difficult to live so they had to fight everyone, for example the climate, so their spirit was including fighting spirit, so they can beat other six biggest kingdoms.

For example, in the Ming Dynasty, the leader was a beggar. One of his friend asked him to attend [join] an army to fight the government so he joined. He was a good leader. Maybe he couldn’t [perhaps] he could not fight very good but he can lead a team.

Pronunciation

words that end in NG

e.g King

In ancient China we had many countries, we have many dynasties…a very famous dynasty was…it is before Qing dynasty…the first emperor of China who united the whole  [all of] China…so Qin Dynasty is from Qin Kingdom. OK, Qing is one of the seven biggest kingdoms in Zhou Dynasty, and the Qing Kingdom beat another [other] countries and united the whole [all of] China. So this person is was the first emperor of China.

In the Zhou Dynasty, there were many countries/kingdoms, each kingdom had a king, all of the kings had to report/reported to one emperor. The emperor is was the Zhou Dyansty’s emperor. It seems like [It was similar to] the UK, because the UK includes England, Scotland.

Those kings’ (pronunciation) power were higher than the USA’s leaders because they controlled the country. There was were many many countries.

In Qin Dynasty some people was were sent by QIn SE HUang the fist emperor to Japan to find a kind of pills/medicine. If someone eat ate this type of pills, who can they would be able to live forever, and not die. Japanese people are their [descendents]. The leaders family name is Xu and maybe he visited the island several times, but maybe in his last visit, he never come came back because he couldn’t find this kind of medicine. He took a lot of people to …maybe thousands of people.

Vocabulary

political power — 政治权力

evolution — this is the change all animals and humans go through over long periods of time.

e.g. We evolve as humans everyday. Evolution however is a very slow process.

descendents 后代

e.g. My daughter is my only descendent.

American/Chinese spirit — this is the mindset, the view inside of a person that drives them to accomplish/or not accomplish great things.

e.g. The American spirit is one of a explorer. The Chinese spirit is often the spirit of a warrior or fighter.

Ancestors / Forefathers = these are the people that came before you.