So I went to my mandarin class which is an advanced conversational class....this morning and I sat in class for 4 hours and couldn't understand anything. My mandarin teacher speaks very little english and I was lost...It was like I was hearing gibberish. I understood the main part of the text ..what the topic was..but I was completely lost...It was like I was listening to a language that I had never heard before..I've been studying mandarin for years.....Has this ever happened to anyone else? ..I've had classes where I momentarily 'blanked out"--(you may have to be learning a new language to understand what I mean) where I couldn't understand anything for a few sentences..because I missed a key word or something..but that is nothing like what happened today..It was like I just couldn't turn on part of my brain..Anybody out there understand? had the same experience? learning any language--even english?
2006-09-09
17:21:42
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