最近一张纽约高中生的中文考试卷在社交媒体上很火。许多中国人高呼：我可能是个假中国人。我可能学了这么多年的假中文。
A written Chinese-language exam allegedly taken by high school students in New York recently went viral on social media. The level of the exam's difficulty shocked many native Chinese speakers, who posted memes such as "I am probably a fake Chinese" and "have I been learning fake Chinese over the years?"
这张试卷包括4个部分，同义词、反义词、造句和写短文。
The exam contained four parts, including writing synonyms and antonyms of words and phrases that are not widely used in modern Chinese language, constructing sentences with 10 given phrases and idioms, and writing a 300-word argumentation based on an assigned topic.
为了弄清外国人的中文水平到底怎样，我们让不同中文水平的歪果仁都做了做这张试卷——
一、新手级别
Santana是一个来自厄瓜多尔，在墨尔本学习的女生。她最近参加了一个复旦大学的中文项目。她说她爱中国美食和中国男孩，她认为他们既聪明又可爱。不过她表示：“这张卷子对她来说太难啦！”
"I looked at the paper and it is very difficult for me," said Genesis Santana, who comes from Ecuador and studied in Melbourne. She recently enrolled in a Chinese-language program at Fudan University. Santana says she loves Chinese food and Chinese boys, who she finds smart and sweet.
虽然中文很难，不过她尽力将普通话运用于她的日常生活中去。Santana说道：“有时候在找厕所时会有困难。比如今天在咖啡馆我用中文问了服务员5次厕所在哪，不过他还是没能听懂我的意思。”
At the same time, she is still getting accustomed to using Putonghua on daily basis. "I sometimes have misunderstandings trying to find toilets. For example, today in this cafe I asked the waiter five times in Chinese but he still couldn't understand me," said Santana.
有次在茶馆，服务员问她是要乌龙茶还是绿茶。她说：“我想要的其实是绿茶，但是最后给我的却是乌龙茶。” Santana在点菜的时候总是点一些她能说的出的东西。她说：“每次我想要新（鲜）肉大包的时候，他们都听不懂，所以我只点奶黄包，因为他们能听懂。”
She also described going to a bubble teahouse, where she was askedwww.58yuanyou.com by the staff if she wanted oolong tea or green tea. "I was like l cha so they gave me wulong cha." To avoid misunderstandings, Santana says she deliberately only orders something s原由网he can pronounce well. "Every time I ask if there is 'xi(a)nrou dabao,' they never understand what I am saying. So I just ask for naihuang bao, because they understand that."
Santana说：“我觉得学中文最难的地方就是四个声调了。我总是说不对。比如说,shuijiao可以是睡觉也可以是水饺，只不过是音调不同，但意思完全不一样。我觉得这种单词很有意思。”
Tones are the most difficult part of the language for Santana. "I never get the tones right," she laughed while trying her best to do the four tones of ma. "Shuijiao means sleep, but when you say shuijiao it also means dumplings. I found it interesting that the same words have different meanings if they have different tones," she added.
“我最爱说的短语就是：不好意思，我的中文不太好。我每天都要说上好几次。”
"My favorite phrase is 'sorry, my Chinese is not good.' I say that many times every day," Santana said.
二、中级阶段
Konova，一个来自保加利亚，现在在上海读中文硕士的一个女生。她说：“这张卷子对于中级水平的汉语学习者来说还是很难的。”因为她学习的都是些基础的词汇和语法，只适用于餐厅点餐、乘坐公共交通、选择去哪旅游、在银行存取款等基本生活场景。
For intermediate Chinese learners, the exam was also quite confusing. Tsveta Konova from Bulgaria is studying Chinese for her master's degree in Shanghai.In her Chinese courses she primarily learns vocabulary and grammar related to everyday life, for example ordering food, using public transport, choosing a holiday destination, depositing and withdrawing money from the bank.
“我的等级是汉语水平3级，但这张卷子要远远超过这个级别。但我觉得对于那些学习过这些考试材料的学生来说，这些不是难事。”
"I think this test is definitely above my level, which is around HSK 3. Thus, I barely understand anything. However, for those students who have studied the exam material, I don't think it'd be problematic for them,"said Konova.
最近Konova家里浴室的下水管堵塞了，她就去超市买管道通，一种用于通下水道的化学用品。但是她自己找不到所以她问了柜员，“我花了5分钟的时间来解释我的问题，尽管我说的是中文但是他不能理解我。当然，这只是我的窘事之一。”
Most recently, Konova had a clogged drain in her bathroom and went to a market to buy a draining chemical. She couldn't find it herself so she asked for help from a clerk. "I spent 5 minutes trying to explain what my problem is, how when I shower the water doesn't drain, and that I need a product to unclog the drain. I spoke Chinese but he just couldn't understand me. So this was yet another embarrassing story for my collection," said Konova.
阮氏恒秋， 越南人。2008年得到越南政府的奖学金来中国留学，所以在越南河内大学学了半年中文。2009年来华师大对外汉语学院再学了一年汉语。拿到HSK8级后，在华师大新闻传播学院学了三年硕士研究生。“我觉得这张卷子挺难的，很多词语我并不熟，很多道题我一下子也做不了。要打分的话，应该不会及格。”
Nguyen Thi Hang Thu, who comes from Vietnam, first arrived in China in 2008 to purse her postgraduate studies at the College of Communication and Journalism of East China Normal University.She currently holds an HSK 8 certificate. Prior to 2010, HSK had 11 possible ranks, with Level 8 representing a vocabulary of 2,194 characters and 5,257 words."Even for me, I think this exam is difficult. There are many words I can't recognize and I can't solve the problem at once," said Nguyen, who watches a lot of Chinese television to develop her listening skills.
“即使你汉语再怎么好，但跟中国学生一起上课会有很大的压力，反正汉语也不是你的母语，有时你对某些事有很多有趣的想法但你不知道该怎么表达，怎么表现出你真正的看法，这真是很痛苦的事情。幸亏四年在华师大学习，我的老师们、同学们挺照顾我们这些留学生的，所以学习方面也不怎么煎熬。”
No matter how good her Putonghua is, Nguyen still feels tremendous stress when s原由网tudying with Chinese students. "It's r原由网eally painful when you don't know how to express your ideas. Fortunately, my teachers and classmates take good care of us, the international students."
三、高手级别
Da Long，一位美国的中文老师。他说这张卷子是由纽约的一个华人社区出的。
The Global Times also showed the exam to Da Long, an American teaching Chinese language at a school in New York. He immediately noticed an abbreviation on the left corner of the paper, "FDR," which he says means the exam was issued by Frawww.58yuanyou.comnklin Delano Roosevelt High School, which is located in one of New York's larger Chinese communities.
Da Long认为这张卷子很有可能是为华人的孩子所准备的。在他所在的学校，学生们从幼儿园到三年级中文是必修课程，每六天两节中文课，一节课30分钟。从四年级开始，他们可以自己选择是学中文还是西班牙语。 Da Long说：“几乎一半的学生会选择继续学习中文。”
Da Long believes the exam was probably prepared for children of overseas Chinese. In his school, students from kindergarten through grade 3 take Chinese as a compulsory course, 30 minutes twice every six days. Starting in grade 4 students can choose either Chinese or Spanish."Around half of the students will continue studying Chinese," Da Long noted.
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