Thursday, March 8, 2007

sentence patterns

Binbin has been learning new sentence patterns from his teacher, Zengzeng laoshi. One phrase involves who bought what. Mama bought book. Baba bought egg pancake. Ahpo bought choo-choo train. Yipo bought bike. Binbin bought Yakuit. In (mostly) Chinese: 媽媽買書,爸爸買蛋餅,阿婆買choo-choo train, 姨婆買bike, 斌斌買Yakuit. Another phrase focuses on a school object, the bookbag. Each of his closest friends and teachers at school—Zengzeng laoshi, Miss Shaun, Miles, Chenting, and Libby—takes a turn taking the bookbag. Finally after almost any statement, Binbin may tack on the ever useful phrase, haiyou yige 還有一個, which effectively means, "and there's another."

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