Complete the blog post with these verbs.

explain pronounce repeat say speak translate understand


I'm so excited to finally be in Beijing! We're travelling in China for three months.

I'm learning to................... Chinese, but at the moment people often don't

.................what I................... to them. I use my hands a lot to help...................

what I mean. I point at things and I.................... .everything several times.

Finally, I ask my Chinese friend to ..................... for me. The problem is that I

don't...................... the words correctly and I get the intonation wrong.

Chinese is a very difficult language!