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summercomfort) wrote2002-09-30 08:15 pm
summercomfort) wrote2002-09-30 08:15 pm
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Just got back from Chinese placement test. It was at 6:15, and I remembered that at 5:55, so it was rush downstairs, shove food into mouth, and fast-walk 10-min to Cobb. It was an okay test. Wasn't really geared towards non-native speakers, though. (Of course, Chinese itself has little formal grammar structure to speak of.) I think I did all right. There were a few "translate into Chinese" characters that I forgot how to write. (It's always the sorta-easy ones, like: 适 and 严, which I just remembered how to write, silly me, and 责, 普). There were fill in the blanks, "the underlined part can best be restated as", write the pinyin for the words, translate this sentence into Chinese, and a lot of reading comprehension, ranging from SAT-level to this really interesting 文言文-ish paragraph talking about 粱启超 doing cool things and 袁世凯 not being able to bribe him nor intimidate him. Very cool.
Oh, and tomorrow, there's an oral interviewish thing with the-prof-that-hates-my-mom. Hopefully I won't get carried away and talk about Chinese School. or living in Stanford, or my mom. dammit, there's nothing left to talk about in Chinese. I have no life. I'll talk about my visit to China (a little risky, tho), and the test and um... jinyong! except that she probably doesn't know much about jinyong. boo.
Oh, and tomorrow, there's an oral interviewish thing with the-prof-that-hates-my-mom. Hopefully I won't get carried away and talk about Chinese School. or living in Stanford, or my mom. dammit, there's nothing left to talk about in Chinese. I have no life. I'll talk about my visit to China (a little risky, tho), and the test and um... jinyong! except that she probably doesn't know much about jinyong. boo.