Pronounciation

Actually, I have problems in speaking Chinese. You may not believed what you see because I am a Chinese and also a native speaker. However, most of us have pronunciation problems more or less cause we have fifty six ethnic groups and one hundred and twenty nine dialects. Date back to the beginning of ancient time, people have difficulty in connecting with others in other part of China and they owned their unique pronounce of the same item. With the development of centralization and the encouragement of the government, mandarin became the official language and we all used to use it. In our daily life, it would be more comfortable to use dialect when we talk with our parents or neighbors.
 As for me , I was born in Hubei province located in the middle of China, people there have difficulty in pronoun "L" and N" in Pingying ,sometimes we even can't recognize that we have made a mistake, if someone point the mistake out, we will mistakes next time we use it. It will be a life long problems because people in our hometown are used to the sound. that's why we have so many jokes about dialects in different Provinces.
When I started to learning English, teachers all have accent and as a consequence, the students will speak like the teachers until we can learn how to read from the phonetic symbol. When we learned how to read the words ,we usually don't use them in our daily life cause a lack of the environment of speaking so we usually have little chance to find the faults. When we have to speak English, we are to shy to open our mouth and fear to make mistakes. When a native speaker told me that I pronoun "the" in the wrong way, I felt very surprised ,he said I also can't tell tongue-flatted and tongue-rolled apart, and I said that I make this mistakes in Chinese ,too.
Habit is hart to change but we need to change it, and I am trying to make progress in Chinese and English pronunciation,which will take a long time but worth to try.

Enjoy the Halloween

This is my first time to addicted to a western festival and I have much to share with you.
Actually, in the middle of October,I began to thinking which character should I make up,I try to choose from Little Red Hiding and a witch and finally made up my mind to dress up like Kiki (a Japanese fantasy anime produced by Stubia Ghibli) .I bought the dress on Amazon and joined the Halloween costume parade in Waikiki.During the parade,we saw many kinds of  ghost and many mad and crazy costume and everyone seems to enjoy the big parade.I saw a person without dressed up but have a T-shirt wrote"404 error, no costume found " ,a mother with her little child dressed like a pumpkin, zombies and also different kinds of food such as pizza and hot dog which beyond my imagination.They get together to have fun and I walked with the crowd without taking photos because I want to fully into this kind of culture that I never experience before.
This festival make me thinking about the different attitude toward traditional festival between China and American.
Compared with China,American shares a more casual culture,they celebrate for what they want to celebrate ,they don't mind other's opinions and do what they want.They have festival to make fool of others(April Fool's Day),just for fun ,they also enjoy big days such as Christmas to get together with family.Another experience also give me that impressive. Once I went to The Byodo-in Temple to visit one of Chinese General's tomb,I saw people nearby were having a picnic there and this will not happen in China.And their tombstone looks different, It's not big but enough to memories.
Things in China are different. Our traditional festival are more formal,and we follow the old ways that our ancient may do to celebrate,such as Chung Yeung Festival(Double Ninth Festival) in Chinese calendar which passed by last week,It's a kind of ghost day but we spent our holiday in a different way.We visit the grave of our ancestors to pay our respects.Also,many Chinese festival try to express the homesick and miss our relatives, bacause we are a country to encourage filial and respect the older.
All in all,different culture have the same magic to attract people to learn more and try to respect it in our daily life.