Chapter 24 talk in chinese

I want you not to give up all your previous efforts, and I want to open a door for you, leading you to 5,000 years of Chinese culture, so that one day, you can communicate with our ancestors by simply picking a book from the Chinese bookshelf, You can build your national self-esteem and become a rooted person. open a door I had some arguments with your mother the night before yesterday, because I asked her, did you do your Chinese homework this week? Mom said that you are so busy with schoolwork and you have to practice the piano every day, how can you have time to do Chinese. I was not happy, blaming her for not supporting my Chinese education, and blaming her for telling me several times in front of me that there was too much homework so I didn’t need to study Chinese.

But my mother later explained that it was because she had already urged you in private, and she didn't want me to put more pressure on you. Of course I know that learning Chinese is stressful for you.Because when your brother was a child, he watched the neighbors’ children playing outside the window, wiped his tears, and wrote Chinese. But his efforts were not in vain. I remember when I took him back to mainland China for the first time when he was 18 years old, he just got on the plane and said in surprise, "Oh my God! Everyone here speaks Chinese!" After arriving in mainland China and Taiwan, he was even more shocked. He found that Chinese, which was only used at home, suddenly became a thing that filled the world. There are 1.3 billion people there, and everyone speaks Chinese.

More importantly, no matter how good his English is in the United States, he still feels like a "minority" surrounded by white people; but in China, everyone is like him, speaking Chinese, reading Chinese books, eating Chinese food, and even talking to him The same blood flows. He suddenly felt in charge. Child! I also hope that you are the master of the house! Remember not long ago, when you complained that we are not an English-speaking family, so your English vocabulary is not as good as that of foreign children, what should I say? I said that precisely because we have such a disadvantage in the United States, we must grasp the advantages of the Chinese people.

What are the advantages of the Chinese? Of course it is Chinese culture! Think about it, those American classmates who participated in the Chinese club, have they worked so hard to learn less than one-tenth of what you have learned.Who told them not to have a Chinese family, unlike you who can speak Chinese when you get home? Of course it is easier for you to learn Chinese than them. How can you not take advantage of such a good advantage? Another reason why I force you to learn Chinese is that I hope you can read Chinese books. A few days ago, your mother received a call from a friend, saying that he had some Chinese books and wanted to donate them to the library, and asked her to contact you.

It was a whole set of very valuable books, and his mother asked him why he didn't keep it for himself. He sighed and said, because he was old! He couldn't see it, he couldn't move it anymore, and his children didn't understand Chinese, so it would be useless to stay. My child! I also have many precious books! I often think, who should I leave these books to one day? Your brother is in Taiwan and already has many books. If you left them in the United States, would you be able to read them? I also often think that if I don’t grasp the time and teach your Chinese well when you are by my side, I’m afraid that your Chinese will be wasted when you enter the university and live on campus someday.

Think about many of your Chinese classmates who still spoke Chinese at home when they were young, and gradually only spoke English after school. Therefore, no matter how busy your schoolwork is, I will insist on teaching Chinese for you every week.I want you not to give up all your previous efforts, and I want to open a door for you, leading you to 5,000 years of Chinese culture, so that one day, you can communicate with our ancestors by simply picking a book from the Chinese bookshelf, You can build your national self-esteem and become a rooted person. At noon today, after dinner, I saw you sitting in front of the small tea table in the living room, with a Chinese dictionary next to it, and you were doing your homework in Chinese.

You hold up your textbook and say that you forgot how to pronounce "stolen goods" in "everyone gets stolen goods", I will tell you, and I will go over to demonstrate it for you again. While I was writing, my heart ached! Traditional Chinese characters are really difficult, just think about how many strokes there are in this dirty word.But I am also happy, knowing that no matter how busy you are, you will persist in Chinese, and you didn't complain about how difficult it is to write the dirty characters, which shows that you have been able to face Chinese calmly. I suddenly felt that the shelves full of Chinese books at home suddenly came to life.