Bon appetite!~~~

Today is the 6th day of my 30-days challenge, which mean I had already learn 6 common usage sentences in other languages.

Right now I had already learn some really usful daily sentences that could help me to do some easy conversation or just say Hello with my friends. Some of the sentences I learned was very interesting. One good example will be the sentence“Bon appetit”. The meaning of this sentence was to wish that person could enjoy their meal. The reason why I said was interesting was because recently we had watch a movie called “Julia and Julie”.It was a movie that take place in Frence so there were some French during some scenes . 

In the movie, both main charactera really like to said “Bon appetit” before they cooked or ate their meal. Before I had learned thwas sentence, I was very confus about what were they talking about and what was the sentence mean. However, yesterday my roomate told me that it was a habit where before France people having their meal, they will often say “Bon appetit”. That really amazed me because I will never thought about some people will wish each other to have a good appetite before they eat. At least for me I never heard about thwas habit in United State or Taiwan. 

Like I always believed “language was come from culture” People can learn one country culture by learning their official language. One interesting fact about French was the grammar they have. It was very unique and different than the Englwash we speak. In Englwash or Chinese, we won’t verify one object into any gender, because they are just non-living objects. In French, every single object have their own gender, and you must use the correct gender for the correct objects.

If you using the wrong gender, the French people might felt very strange or confus about what you are talking about. It was just like saying “I go to the movie theater.” We will never say something without a be verb, and gender is just like their be verb in the language. That was why learning a language was not difficult, but master one language was.There were still about 20 more days for my 30-days challenge. I am really confident about what I learn so far. I know how to speak, what is it mean, but not writing them down. 

For the next 20 more days, I would like to focus more about the grammar part in French. Maybe try to do a short French conversation with my roomate to test how well am I using the French I learn. That is just one of the option. For another choice, I would like to learn another new language. I am thinking about learning Spanish, Korean, or Japanese. Those three are the languages that I really get interested about now. There are also have a lot of native Spanish and Korean speaker in our school, so it will be easier to just ask them to teach me. Anyway, that is just some idea for the other 15 days in my 30-days challenge. No matter what am I doing for my challenge, having perseverance will be the most important attitude for myself to complete the 30-days challenge.

The progress of my challenge

For my 30-days challenge, I will say it is going pretty well! The reason why I will say that is because my roommate-Fisher. My challenge is to learn new language in one sentence each day. Fortunately, my roommate knows how to speak French, which is something I never learn before. I ask him can he teach me one common French sentence that people will speak to each other for daily life. He agree immediately and teach me right away when I ask him. 

Friday is the first day of the 30-days challenge, so he teach me three sentences to keep for Saturday and Sunday. He teach me how to say thank you, eat well, and everything will be good. I forget how to write these sentence but I do write those sentences down in my notebook. This will help me to memorize all of them and won't forget right after the day. Anyway, I'm glad to have the chance to do 30-days challenge so that I have the chance to learn a new language which I never try before. I can't wait to see how good am I after this 30-days challenge!

Purpose of 30-days challenge!

On last Friday, I started my own 30-days challenge. My 30-days challenge’s topic is learning new languages for one sentence.

One of the big reason why I choose this challenge is because I really like language. It is very interesting and such diverse in this world. Different countries have their own unique language, and none of them are same as each other. Although there are come from same region, but the language itself still have some places are different. For example English, there are two types of English that exist in the world right now. One is the American English, which is the English we speak most often. Another one is the Britain English, it is the English that speak in the United Kingdom now. Both are them are called English, but the grammar, spelling, and some vocabulary are very different than each other. Just like “I just had lunch” and “I've just had lunch” These two sentences having the same meaning but the way they say are different. There are more this kind of situation that happen at some place else beside United State and United Kingdom.

I believe that if one person can master on multi-languages their life would be more interesting. According to the Professor in linguistic “Language is come from culture.” Learning one language not only help you to have the ability to communicate with someone who speak that language, but also lead you to understand more about the history and culture of that language. Just like myself learning English. At first I think learning English is just waste of my time, I would rather do math than learning English. However, one day I meet my first native English speaker which is one my father’s friends. My father told him I learn English for a while so might have the ability to communicate with him, but I am so nervous that can not even speak one ward from my mouth. After that experience I found out that there are much more people like my father’s friend outside my country. I decide to take the advantage of learning English so that I will able to get one step closer to the world.

The last but not least reason I set this goal is because of my personal dream. One day in the future, I hope I can travel to everywhere I want and I can talk to the local people and make friend with them. I am not a person who good at social right now because of my poor English skill. Until now I still regret about why didn't I take the chance to learning English so my life will be much easier right now. Anyway, I should not care about the past but looking forward. Something I can do is to take the chance of the 30-days challenges, and push myself to learning new language instead of playing video. This is not only for the project that teacher gives me, but also prove myself that nothing is impossible.

Day 1, Let’s GO!

The goal for my challenge

For my 30-days challenge, I'm going to learn new language each day. 

There are lots of languages exist in this world base on different culture. If one person know how to speak multi-languages, it is easier for them to communicate with other region people. I consider myself as a language lover, I think learning a new type of language is very interesting. Unfortunately, it is hard for me to learn multi-languages right now, because of my busy school works and some college stuff. One thing I can do is to learning one sentence each day, which is my goal for the 30-days challenge. No matter which language I learn, I will just learn one sentence each day. After 30 days, I will know 30 different kind of sentences in different language. This will make myself one step closer to my dream, which is master all the major language in the world.

3 things I want to subtract and add

Subtract 

1. Sugar drinks 

2. Stay up late until 12:00 or 1:00 in the morning 

3. Computer time

Add

1. Exercise 

2. Learning one sentence new languages 

3. More vegetables in every meals 

What is 30-days challenge?

Goal is one of the most common way for people to challenge themselves and see whether did they have any improvement or not. Sometimes when we set a goal to our-self, we didn't set a particular time to push our-self to complete it. This cause the time we spend on it is way more longer than it should be. Suddenly, one person jump out and said “We should do a 30-days challenge!” It is a challenge for one person to do in every single day in that 30 days. The goal should be easy to do, by easy I mean something that can be done for each day. Such as not watching TV, go exercise for 1 hour, take a photo each day...etc. This challenge not only can push someone continuously to do something, but also might let the person have a different view about his/her life!

My twist story - just a "normal" life

On Friday afternoon, Andy was sitting in the common room and watching TV. Soon, Jason came in and sat next to Andy.

He asked "How is your day, bro?"

Andy answered "Pretty good, I just finished my Chemistry test."
Jason "Really? Then you can enjoy your weekend I guess."
Andy "Yea, but I still have something need to do over the weekend."
Jason "Like?"
Andy "Some college stuff."

"Oh! Talk about college, how is your application going on?"

"Well, I don't really want to talk about college right now."
Jason remember yesterday was the day that the result for college early decision came out. Then from Andy's face he can feel a touch of sadness. He thoughts maybe Andy didn't accept by his dream college, and that was the reasson why he didn't want to talk about it.
Jason said “It will be fine, everything will overcome.”

Andy ”I know, but I just don’t know why it will happen."

"Well, it is just an early decision, nothing matter about it. By the way, it doesn't mean you didn't have any chances."

"I know, but I’m sure I check everything before I send my application. Everything should be perfect, but….”

“Well, you can’t change anything right now, I suggest you to look forward. When God closes a door, he always opens a window.”

“I think you are right, I shouldn't keep being negative.”

"Yea, this is the real Andy I know."

"Thank you Jason, you did help me a lot."

"No problem, this is my job for being your friends. Anyway, I didn't accept by my Dream college too."

"You didn't get accept in?"

Jason asked confusly ”Wait, didn't you say you get reject?”

"Who told you that, I got accept by Boston University. They just want me to send a new photo to them in order to make my student ID card, because last one I sent was awfal and they want me to give them before the end of today."

After Jason heard that, he went back to his room and felt very disappointed rest of the day.