Liam+Frost

大家好，

我叫傅雷. 我十六岁，是一半客家人，四分之一英国人，四分之一法国人. 我会讲英文，会讲国语，但是国语讲得不太好. 我在纽约长大. 我家有四个人，爸爸，妈妈，哥哥，跟我. 我爸爸也是在纽约长大的. 他五十岁，是一个唱歌老师. 我妈妈是在台湾长大的. 虽然她是在台湾长大的，但是她没有教我怎么说中国话. 她四十五岁，是一个钢琴老师. 我哥哥十九岁，在大学学习. 我家还有三只宠物，一只狗跟两只猫. 我很喜欢打球. 乒乓球，篮球，足球，跟网球， 我都喜欢. 我喜欢吃东西，非常喜欢吃意大利面跟台湾的牛肉面. 我非常喜欢吃面！我还喜欢跟朋友去玩. 我很喜欢看电影，看电视.

现在我在中学学习. 我觉得我家离学校很远，开车时要差不多四十分钟. 我在上七门课，上英语，汉语，历史，科学，数学，跟两门音乐课. 我最喜欢数学因为我觉得数学很容易. 我还喜欢音乐课因为那很好玩儿. 我明年会上我最后一年的中学，然后我会上大学. 我这个暑假要去中国，然后要去台湾. 我大算学很多国语. 我很开心！

明年的班长，

傅雷



Issues:

left in parent's professions b/c why would I say, "My mom's 45 years old" but not say, "My mom is a teacher." If anything, saying what my mom does for a living makes more sense than saying how old she is.

disagree with "shi...de" (put it in anyway) b/c why would I emphasize that my mom is from Taiwan. I onlly slightly understand that i should say "wo baba ye shi zai niu yue zhang da de" but like really, why would NEED to emphasize that b/c the "ye" alone already means he also grew up in New York. If it's an essay about New York, sure, then. But otherwise, it doesn't make sense to me.

我还喜欢音乐课因为那not necessary很好玩儿 － why is this not necessary?

commas - don't really understand how comma is used i.e. 我在上七门课. Connect these sentences我上英语，汉语，历史，科学，数学，跟两门音乐课. -- I change it to "wo zai shang qi men ke, shang..." but that's not how you would use a comma in English, and I've always assumed that commas are the same in Chinese/English since I've never been told otherwise.