First day of working chinese pod!!!!!!

So, today is my first day of actually working on Chinese pod with all the content available to me. Im gonna jump right into it and i will let you know how it goes in tomorrow's post.

Monday's Plan:

Today, I'm going to review the things my tutor gave me since the Chinese pod issues have not been worked out as of yet. I also found nifty website run by the B.B.C, that has some very useful information on it as well. Just talked to Mrs. Newman and she is going to set up all the information today, so I will be up and running tomorrow. Awesome.

How my tutoring went and what my homework is now:

my session with the tutor went really well. She quizzed me on colors, all the basic phrases I showed you on the first page of that packet and numbers 1-100. The thing with numbers in Chinese is that they are really quite easy, 1-10 are very simple. 11-20, is just any number 1-9 and add the word 10 after it. Then for all numbers after that, 21 would be er shi er. Which translates into 2 10 1 or 21. So, its actually kind of easy. I'm also beginning to learn the names of some basic animals as well. Like dog, cat, and the so forth. She also gave me a larger list of colors to know, seeing as how I only had to know 3 last time, so know I have a list of 10.

My plan for Today and Wednesday.

Today is going to be spent mostly reviewing my home work assignments for tomorrow's lesson with my tutor. i have most of the colors down, not memorized completely but I can pronounce them all correctly. The counting is coming along as well, though I'm still having problems remembering 6,7, and 8. I will try to get those sorted out tonight, and be ready for tomorrow. I am also practicing writing numbers as well, since that was an additional part of my assignment as well. I will also try to get in touch with Mrs. Newman, She is not in the library currently and I realized that I don't know her first name, so i sent my email to the wrong Newman. other than than, Im feeling very positive about the progress that i am making with Mandarin, and ben and i can discuss a date this afternoon for us to present.

Weekend plan.

I'm going to over, the weekend review the home work assignments that my tutor gave me in preparation for next Wednesday. I have counting pretty much memorized, so if you want to quiz me on that next Tuesday, quiz away. I am still having some difficulty with colors though, so I will attempt to get that all cleared up by Wednesday as well. I also sent Mrs. Newman an email again, just to be sure, though i might have sent it to the wrong first name. I will check on that as well.

Post- Spring break update.

So, I'm back from spring break and hitting the Mandarin again. my plan for the next two weeks anyhow is the following:

i'm going to start using the Chinese pod like have have been, except i will speak to Mrs. Newman and get her to set up my account hopefully. I am also continuing to complete the lessons which my tutor has given me, which are right now focusing on basic words. Colors, shapes, foods, and household objects. I'm also rehearsing my speaking skills at home, just mostly because it would be quite odd to be saying Mandarin in the library. So, its back to the usual routine, and Ive got a meeting with my tutor for next Wednesday.