ㄐㄑㄒ 破釜沉舟

Got it almost right today :-)

辣（ㄌ）妹（ㄇ）
饅（ㄇ）頭（ㄊ）
泥（ㄌ）巴（ㄅ）
恐（ㄎ）怖（ㄅ）
拉（ㄌ）麵（ㄇ）
報（ㄅ）答（ㄉ）
徬（ㄆ）徨（ㄏ）

After one more chance from teacher I have corrected this: 泥（ㄋ）

For today's learning:

ㄐ→（很難用英文音標解釋）(機 雞 家 假 講 降 將軍 叫 交 金)
ㄑ→英文音標 CH (去 氣 奇 搶 巧 橋 求 親 切 妾 慶 強 茄 取)
ㄒ→英文音標 S (相 下 小 謝 兄 學 薰 旋 序 許 系 洗 西 想)

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The shipment is so expensive. It's like $1/pound, and they estimated that I have 2500 pounds! I guess it's better just to get the stuffs in Canada.

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Who wants all of my computing related books? (They are now claimed...)

I have been living with some of these books for almost a decade, some even slept with in the office (well, during the gloomy afternoons under the dizzy office lights ). I'm so glad they found better users, and I can't feel more relieved seeing them going away!

ㄍㄎㄏ and Passed!

So my teacher gave me a quiz and I got a pass!!

Here's my answers:

鬧（ㄌ） 討（ㄊ） 呆（?）包（ㄅ）房（ㄈ）葡（ㄆ） 萄（ㄊ）龍（ㄋ）頭（ㄊ）冷（ㄋ）漠（ㄇ）

一題十分... and I got 60!!

Here's the correct answers:

鬧（ㄋ）
呆（ㄉ）
龍（ㄌ）
冷（ㄌ）

As for today's (only three today since 這三個一群):

ㄍㄎㄏ
ㄍ→英文音標 G (搞　乾　歌　葛　估　剛)
ㄎ→英文音標 K (靠　哭　可　苦　扣　坑　康)
ㄏ→英文音標 H (海　好　哈　黑　呴　猴　行　和　河)

Heee.. hopefully I'll do it better during the test tomorrow!

ㄉㄊㄋㄌ

Continued to learned Mandarin today, but I still couldn't pronounce my last name (黃 ㄏㄨㄤˊ) correctly! Hopefully I will be able to speak fluently before my China and Taiwan trips that are almost five months away.

What I learned today:

ㄉㄊㄋㄌ
ㄉ→英文音標 D (到 刀 大 登)
ㄊ→英文音標 T (他 兔 禿 頭)
ㄋ→英文音標 N (奶 拿 嫩 捏)
ㄌ→英文音標 L (拉 辣 爛 浪)

From here you can get the pronunciation.

ㄅㄆㄇㄈ

The good thing about traveling to me is that it always motivates me to learn the language of the country I am visiting. And this time I'll need to brush up my Mandarin, and possibly 台語 as well :) Big thanks to my friend who introduced me to the following websites that teaches me the correct pronunciation of the 注音符號:

http://www.mdnkids.com/BoPoMo/

http://olddoc.tmu.edu.tw/chiaushin/Tai-BPM-s/Taiphonet-s.htm (台語 only)

The four syllables I learned today are:

ㄅㄆㄇㄈ
ㄅ→英文音標 B
ㄆ→英文音標 P
ㄇ→英文音標 M
ㄈ→英文音標 F

My friend is so funny and said "你一天學四個就好，我們這個幼稚園主要是讓小朋友快樂吃點心"

My tears dropped as I was laughing my head off....