Ni Hao!

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I had my first chinese class this evening. It was nice, a small group, there were only four of us and the teacher. We worked on pronunciation, damn is it hard!!!!! Practice practice practice. But hopefully by the end of the class I'll be able to do it. Also he talked about lots of little cultural things that were pretty cool. Like how you don't want to just address a stranger as "miss" as it's also come to mean prostitute. I'm so happy to be taking the class. It's simpler than I thought it would be, in what we're covering, not in actually pronouncing anything, but he's not making anyone learn characters . Which I know mostly anyway so that's okay. But definitely a good start. I must practice lots this week to be better next time. And I have a Chinese name, meini. Which when I checked in my dictionary is just mei, last name or plum, and ni had no meaning, it was one of those weired characters that's just their with it's pinyin translation.