Tuesday, August 15, 2006

忙与盲

0850hrs




1435hrs

" 老师,why do we have to learn Chinese?
My dad didn't know Chinese, he still gets a job, earns lots of money...."

"I hate Chinese.
I always argue with the tuition teacher. He says I'm his worst student..."

"There're so many words I don't know..
I think I'll fail the exams..."

"Okay... I'll try... but I still think I'll fail..."

"sigh... okay... I'll try... and I will not fail, ok?"



1750hrs




(以上内容)

问: 如果你是狮子狗的主人,你会把狮子狗丢在马路边吗?为什么?

答: 我不会,因为如果我要痒它,我就要把它痒到老,痒到死。


1850hrs

"You're still new... wait till one year later...
You will wonder if you're events manager or what...
令人感到恶心!"


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很累。
我无法思考今天的一切。

亲爱的你呢?
今天过得还好吗?

27 comments:

卡門 said...

第一張卡挺有創意,學生還會在字體搞花样,孺子可教也~

那個“痒”和“養”,我看了就忍不住想笑。不妨告訴學生你為什麼醬頑皮,讓獅子狗痒到死。

Chuang Shyue Chou said...

You're a Chinese teacher?

edwin said...

可怜的孩子,辛苦了自己,也辛苦了老师。

华人的文字和语言,不是单单作为一种商业社会里人际沟通的用具而已。华文的作用,在深一层来说,是要用来了解华人的文化,而华人的文化深层来说就是人与人相处,人与自己相处的哲学和价值观。这种价值观包括:含蓄,温和,敬老,崇尚正义,崇尚文学和美术,为社会奉献等等。

不管在什么社会,你的,或是我的都一样。如果家长,社会(那位tuition teacher),孩子本身,对学习华文的出发点仅在于商业的考量或是政策的安排,他学习到的,只是华文的表层而已。

可能某个孩子放弃了学习华文,他到了很多年以后,年长了,他也不会后悔放弃华文的。因为,他根本不知道他失去了什么。

Anonymous said...

如果我喜歡那位老師﹐再難的科目我也會拼。

可是﹐如果是惹我討厭的不公平老師﹐我也會連帶的不喜歡那個科目。

當然﹐我的成勣不是差的。否則﹐說不喜歡那個科目就不讀﹐太虧本了。

老師對孩子的愛和鼓勵﹐他們是感覺得到的。就像我么弟﹐至今仍然收著以前給他鼓勵並不放棄他還私底下給他補習的馬來文老師送他的小卡。

對華文的不正確態度﹐很多是由父母傳下來的。只有那些後悔的父母才會要孩子學中文。

世界上最難的語文之一﹐不是那麼容易學的。不過﹐sikit sikit lama jadi bukit。

蓝月 said...

鱼,翻译。这里我们不学马来文。除了简单的MAKAN,不太懂得。

Anonymous said...

報歉!字面意思是說:一點一點,日久成山。如果不輕易放棄,一天會五個字,一個月也會有卅個字。(馬來文中有很多有意思的諺語和成語,還有古詩)

蓝月 said...

呵呵,真有趣。

上次朋友带我上柔佛,我凡看到马来文就开始念起来,他们都嫌我烦。

文字君女 said...

蓝月是哪里的人啊?
为什么不会马来文?
身为华人,不会华文,是悲哀.

蓝月 said...

均均,我是新加坡人。

Shyue Chou, yes I'm a chinese teacher. surprising? or i sounded more like an english teacher?

钪凯 said...

人忙,心不忙。

Chuang Shyue Chou said...

GASP! Scary! You are so proficient!

As for English teachers, I have heard horror stories of those who can't string a sentence, let alone, speak proper English.

蓝月 said...

haha... yeah, i thought i speak better english than some of the english teachers-to-be back when we were attending this course called Communication Skills.

but of course, they were only the minority.

some of them are just poor souls who were being forced to teach that subject because of the system.

文字君女 said...

我会觉得那个小孩很残忍。
为何要痒它到死=.="
哈。

其实,听说在外国教华文很赚耶~

Chuang Shyue Chou said...

Yes, you are right, I have heard of these teachers.

Some years ago, I had an editor in my team. She was an English teacher and yet she could barely write. Her work was full of mistakes. My predecessor who was of a Chinese orientation in outlook, speech and more, was able to spot a lot of her mistakes.

The quality of her work was ghastly.

As for Chinese, I am still amazed at the proficiency. Why? Basically, I have almost forgotten everything.

Chuang Shyue Chou said...

It's pretty much Greek to me.

蓝月 said...

which means half the time you have no idea what on earth i'm rambling about??

and you still frequent this site?

i'm touched. *teared*

qiaoqiao10 said...

hehe, another chinese teacher to join the fun.

Dear bluemoon, how r u? it took me some time to finally start my blog. :-p stil much to learn from...

你的学生其实还挺贴心的嘛!以那张卡的“规模”来看,应该不小了哦?我只能靠听着小小朋友说衣服很美得到小小满足感……

忙归忙,记得,休息!还有,记得好的,不要记得坏的。我的校长说过:

"if something doesnt matter to you after few months, it is not a matter at all!"

共勉之。

Chuang Shyue Chou said...

" half the time "

To be frank, it is most of the time... Heheh.

蓝月 said...

^_^ 加油哦,巧恬。

qiaoqiao10 said...

你也一样,加油!不要被打败了!一起奋斗!

Chuang Shyue Chou said...

May I know how you retain your proficiency throughout the years? Was it through usage?

Was it through reading the papers?

Was it through reading books?


Are the compositions you have on your blog all yours? Verses?

Chuang Shyue Chou said...

Sorry about asking all these questions. I recall to get a B during O levels all those years ago, I had to memorise 20 essays, 500 sayings and 500 pre-constructed sentences. It was quite a bit of work. Fortunately, I had a good memory then and I managed it.

蓝月 said...

which language are you referring to?

if it's english, i just got the hang of it after awhile.

i got a E for my O levels, and my higher chinese got me through to jc. after which, i made myself study the oxford dictionary, to prepare for the retake, and practise on essay-writing. it's crazy, but i got through my retake with a B3, so i'm complaining.

as for my chinese, it's acquired, not learnt, just like you and your powderful england. ;)

Chuang Shyue Chou said...

I am referring to your Chinese. You seem fluent though I really don't know.

Do you read Chinese novels? Do you read Chinese papers? Watch TV? How? How is it acquired?

蓝月 said...

oh that.

i dont know how to answer you. it's there since the day i was born.

Chuang Shyue Chou said...

Do you have an inherent gift for languages? What of other languages?

A linguistic gift?

蓝月 said...

As I said, it's acquired. When we said a language is acquired, we meant that our fluency in it is achieved through the environment, not learnt at the later stage of our lives.

An acquired language usually happens to a person of age 0-5. At that stage, it's said that we learn unconsciously, hence the fluency.

that's why i said it's inborn.

linguistic gift? i do hope so though. :)