F2F Class Notes (Shane) – [S]

Vocabulary

Mandarin – (Putong Hua)

Cantonese – (Guangdong Hua)

Apartment – A place you live in a large building (many families living within the building).

Look & See – Look first so you can see.  Seeing is what happens AFTER you look.

Truly see somebody – See the REAL you.  This is when you start to get to know somebody better.  “See them for who they really are.’

Huo Guo – Hot Pot.

Pronunciation

Apartment – [a part ment]

Department – [de part ment]

Original

This weekend I maybe go to Chengdu, Sichuan Chengdu, to take part in activities concerning on environment protection.  I’m looking forward to look panda.  And before this time, I never been to Sichuan.  And maybe there are many spicy food and huo guo.  And we’re looking forward to enjoy hot pot with my friends.  This activity is hosted by famous newspaper, and I want to make some new friends with some media workers, like journalists or editors, because I am an editor.  Nanfang zhoumo, do you know?  It’s a famous newspaper in Guangdong.  I’m an editor and my occupation is to write entertainment or history articles for new media.  I work in advertisement companies, new media department.  The other department is the newspaper department.  New media means we read articles in the new media, like on the phone, like the internet.  Newspaper is just the paper.

Correction

This weekend I maybe might (will) go to Chengdu, Sichuan Chengdu (which is in Sichuan [province])*, to take part in activities concerning on environment protection regarding (about) environmental protection.  I’m looking forward to look seeing pandas**.  And before this time, I never been to Sichuan I have never been to Sichuan before.  And maybe there are many there should be a lot of spicy food and huo guo.  And we’re I’m looking forward to enjoying hot pot with my friends.  This activity is hosted by a famous newspaper and I want to make some new friends with some media workers, like journalists or editors, because I am an editor.  Do you know Nanfang zhoumo, do you know?  It’s a famous newspaper in Guangdong.  I’m an editor and my occupation is to write entertainment or history articles for new media.  I work in an advertisement companies company, in the new media department.  The other department is the newspaper department.  New media means we read articles in the new media, like on the phone, like the internet.  The Newspaper department just covers the newspaper.is just the paper.

*- If the person you are speaking to doesn’t know Chinese geography at all, you can say:  Chengdu, which is the capital of Sichuan, a province in China.

**- You can also watch pandas