My pal Jen Ambrose in Shenzhen has a brief post on the difficulties that she’s experienced learning Chinese vocabulary appropriate to a stay-at-home mom:
I’ve learned names of every piece [of] office equipment, how to sign contracts, and how to book hotel rooms. I have yet to read in any of my textbooks how to ask for a playground or how to buy diapers.
Which brings us to this week’s exercises on the use of command verbs:
Action: Quickly learn the command verb above.
Reaction: Quickly learn how to dodge abuse.