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Chinese characters

When I woke up this morning I tried to remember how to write a very simple Chinese character: “本”, it’s probably one of the most commonly used characters in Chinese — yet it’s took me a while to remember how to write it. Though it’s not the first time I experienced this, it’s still a bit embarrassing. I don’t believe it’s totally because of the fact that I’m not using Chinese much in my daily life, but rather I think it’s because of the fact that I’m using computers everyday and have no chance of practice writing Chinese. I remember not being able to write some characters even back in China…

Someone says on mitbbs.com that people tend to forget how to use non-native languages when they grow old. Well, I only hope I’m still able to communicate with others in one language — whichever language it is.

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4 Comments

  1. Min

    Yesterday I experienced the same embarrassment when I tried to write my diary in Chinese. But I don’t really worry about it because I know whenever I want, I can pick it up in no time 🙂

    • I’m not worried, it’s just a bit embarrassing…

  2. Min

    Yesterday I experienced the same embarrassment when I tried to write my diary in Chinese. But I don’t really worry about it because I know whenever I want, I can pick it up in no time 🙂

    • I’m not worried, it’s just a bit embarrassing…

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