45 sats \ 5 replies \ @south_korea_ln 19 Oct \ on: Parent’s Corner: Eating Personalities alter_native
Always interesting to read those 成语. I remember studying a few of them back in the day, but in over 20 years since I spoke Chinese daily, they've all but a few slipped my mind. 一了百了，女士优先 (even if I don't know if it is an actual 成语), 马马虎虎, 一路平安 come to mind. And of course, 好好学习天天向上， but that is not 4 characters so I assume technically not a 成语.
As for your question, my son is a very distracted eater too. It's always very hard to keep him focused on his plate. He'll just talk and talk, play with his chopsticks, etc. One needs patience to make sure he eats enough. Funnily, tonight was one of the first times he really ate the way you described your daughter... so maybe changes are ahead of us.
As for your comment from a while ago (can't find it here), happy to share a beer if I ever travel to your town in Japan. Also, I never got past the qualifiers for the math Olympiads, but that's a story to tell in person. It would be nice to be able to pin notifications for later response. I realize I never responded to those two even though I read them.
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Well thanks for remembering and making the effort to enlighten me. I will do likewise. Actually I haven’t visited many Science museums yet. I took my students on learning journeys to our Singapore Science Centre, but I don’t think you will find it engaging personally. But it’s a good place to bring a kid to ignite their interest
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When you spoke Chinese daily back then, did you feel that you were tapping on a different part of your brain? Curious to know!
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For languages, it's all about language families in my case. Without doxxing myself too much, I speak a decent amount of languages, and I can really feel how they kinda cluster together by type. If it's the same family, it's the same part of my brain (and it's harder to switch to the other one if I've spoken the first one for a long period of time).
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Do you?
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