10-year-olds with $200 electronic Chinese-English dictionaries say the darndest things:
Today Emily church we are many episteme a bout travelling. I know my a bout travelling episteme is not good. But now have Emily I’m never mind. And I today college many a bout travelling episteme. I because of thanks Emily.
I’m so happy.
You’re welcome, kid.
There are five classes of railway tickets in China. Starting with the poshest, these are: soft sleeper, hard sleeper, soft seat, hard seat and unreserved. We took a hard sleeper from Jinzhou to Guangzhou, so now we have experienced every class of train car. Hard sleeper is definitely the best. It [...]
We teach English.
To kids.
At a summer camp.
On a university campus.
Weird.
Luckily, we have assistants who take care of the kids when they go swimming and play sports. It is our job to teach our campers the English language for five hours a day, and then correct their journals every evening.
Joshua’s class is full of University [...]
Emily, Joshua and Artemis now live in Philadelphia, PA. They used to live in Qingdao, People's Republic of China.
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What!!!!!
I dont even know what the kid intended to say! Thats so silly, although I’ve heard that learning english is incredibly hard. I cant wait to send you pix! Send my love to Joshua.
-molly & baby
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I’m pretty sure she was trying to say:
“Today in class we learned a lot about travel. I didn’t know much about travel before. Now, thanks to Emily, I don’t need to worry about that. We learned a lot about travel today. I appreciate what Emily taught me.
I’m so happy.”
He sends love back. Kiss Bill.
Love, Emily
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Ya, they’re much better off with a regular tiny pocket dictionary.
Those electronic ones have way too many unnecessary complex words.
Very funny post. :)