Basic Chinese Lesson , What keeps Peggy so '忙mang2' ?
Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 12:21PM Da4jia1 hao3! 大家好! ni3 men5 zui4jin4 hao3 ma1? 你們最近好嗎? xi1wang4 ni3men5 dou1 guo4 de5 hai2 bu2cuo4. 希望你們都過得還不錯! :)
It's been a while that I haven't posted up any new entry. I'm really sorry. Here is not only a new lesson update but also an update on what's been going on in my life; in other words, what keeps me so mang2 (忙/busy) in the past few weeks:
I'm taking 24 credits this semester(The limit is 25, now you get an idea how many classes I have.), being a Campus News Anchor every li3bai4 san1(禮拜三/Wednesday), unexpectedly having been selected as a leader of this year's Drama Performance by my classmates; therefore, in the past few weeks I had also been busy with selecting an appropriate script and more difficultly, I tried to condense a 1-hour-40-minute play into a 20-minute one. It gobbled up my Mid-Autumn Holiday (中秋節/zhong1qiu1jie2) to get it done! :( Moreover, I have at least 4 private Mandarin lessons on Skype every week. Besides, I try to work on my poor Japanese with a student from Applied Japanese Department in spite of being a zhong1wen2 lao3shi1 (中文老師/ Mandarin teacher). Furthermore, I try hard to keep up with my 4 times/per week swimming routine I started last summer. You see me dragging myself to the pool after a day of concentration at school, and then drag my log-like body back home afterwards.
However I never forget about PeggyTeachesChinese: the need of a new Mandarin lesson for all of you who yearn to learn more! I would certainly try my best to upload a new Mandarin lesson once a week. And I hope the support from you guys will continue to shine when I get over-occupied by my school work at times. xi1wang4 ni3men5 ke3yi3 liang4jie3(希望你們可以諒解/Hope you guys can understand).
Xie xie ni men! 謝謝你們! :*)
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Ref Lesson "What are you doing?". In English that tense is called the Present
Progressive.
Present perfect tense verbs show an action that was finished recently or one that that was completed at an indefinite time in the past. These use has or have.
We have played football.
My niece has skipped down the road