Paul Davidson
100 words 017
After ten years (!) of studying, I’m still atrocious at Chinese. I was taking advantage of Piglet’s new found mimicry to teach her lǎolao (maternal Grandmother) and spent 5 happy minutes teaching her làolao (to brand or sear with a skillet).
The same day I managed to spend too long over-thinking the phrase “Do we have class tonight?” and, by the time I got round to sending it over WeChat, I included three question words. This is not recognised as good grammar.
Still, with the chippy closed, I can ignore my monolinguality and rustle up fish and chips at least.
