Chinglish

Chinglish-  written or spoken English said in a Chinese way, kind of a lost in translation type of thing.

It's a problem and I have it.

Over the course of the past year of teaching English somehow, I also picked up on some of these phrases/habits. I sincerely hope some of my grammatically correct English rubbed off on the students as well, one can hope anyway.

Chinglish is something that I heard on a daily basis during my year in Taiwan. Mostly, it just made me smile. Here are a few examples of phrases I have heard in my classroom:

I don't can

I very like you

He have hit me

Everyone is mad at my

I very color is green

I write done

You said what teacher?

I want

Give me

 the excessive use of "so"

I only wish I had actually recorded every funny Chinglish phrase that I heard in my year of teaching. 

If any of you English teachers read this and can add to this list, please do. It would make me immensely happy. Also, please no judging my English when I get back to the states. 

A Traveler's Perspective

I have always wanted to travel and each time I have been given the opportunity to do so it has made the travel bug inside of me grow stronger.  So I feel pretty darn lucky to have been able to go to so many different countries(thank you to living in Taiwan that brought more countries into my sphere of traveling). I don't know where life is going to take me next and who knows if I will have the chance to travel much in my future. I hope these experiences are just the beginning for me, but we'll just have to wait and see.

Okay, so the initial motivation behind writing this post was to describe the awesomeness of flying in Asia, well that, and I am stuck in an airport on a layover so what else am I going to do?

In the past year I have flown more than I have in my whole life. That being said my experience flying within the United States has been fairly limited so the comparison may be biased but there you go.

For starters, flights that are only 2 hours long serve you full meals, meals people, not dinky little bags of peanuts that you basically have to beg for. Meals included in the flight, no extra charge and they are pretty  good too. Second, in flight entertainment is FREE. Seriously, I don't think I have been on a short flight within the United States that had free in flight entertainment. Lastly, you see cool things like this when you walk into the airport.

Basically, you should just book your flight right now.