<![CDATA[Comments on: SBTG: Confucius]]> 2008-05-26 18:00:00 <![CDATA[By: jdough422]]> <![CDATA[By: sophie20461]]> <![CDATA[By: swansong]]> <![CDATA[By: guolanusa]]> <![CDATA[By: ccclim]]> This new format is even more confusing!  All I want is to be able to find out quickly today's lesson, access it and decide whether or not to save it for repeated listening later. And, when I return after being away can qucikly find out the lessons I have missed.

I do very much hope that you can remedy the situation very soon!

By the way, in today's lesson [Save by the Gong: Confucius], I could not get the "text" version.

 

]]> This new format is even more confusing!  All I want is to be able to find out quickly today's lesson, access it and decide whether or not to save it for repeated listening later. And, when I return after being away can qucikly find out the lessons I have missed.

I do very much hope that you can remedy the situation very soon!

By the way, in today's lesson [Save by the Gong: Confucius], I could not get the "text" version.

 

]]> <![CDATA[By: amber]]> hi ccclim,

Try this way:  You can just go to the "Lessons" tab.  There you can see the lessons in chronological order, with the latest one at the top.  There, you can bookmark the latest lesson if you like.  And below it, you will see the lessons you may have missed if you haven't been to the site in a few days.

As far as the 'text' version, the PDF is working, I just checked it.  If you meant the HTML version of the PDF, that is a temporary glitch.  We are attempting to reupload it now.  It will be back though, I promise, as soon as we can get it there.  Apologies for that!

]]> hi ccclim,

Try this way:  You can just go to the "Lessons" tab.  There you can see the lessons in chronological order, with the latest one at the top.  There, you can bookmark the latest lesson if you like.  And below it, you will see the lessons you may have missed if you haven't been to the site in a few days.

As far as the 'text' version, the PDF is working, I just checked it.  If you meant the HTML version of the PDF, that is a temporary glitch.  We are attempting to reupload it now.  It will be back though, I promise, as soon as we can get it there.  Apologies for that!

]]> <![CDATA[By: goulnik]]> hint : the lesson was initially scheduled under ID 891, which explains why the link to the text version doesn't work ;-)

]]> hint : the lesson was initially scheduled under ID 891, which explains why the link to the text version doesn't work ;-)

]]> <![CDATA[By: amber]]> hi goulniky,

Thanks, just fixing that up for you now.  Apologies!

]]> hi goulniky,

Thanks, just fixing that up for you now.  Apologies!

]]> <![CDATA[By: changye]]>  

The Japanese people who have knowledge about Mandarin can relatively easily read classical Chinese (文言) such as 论语 and 唐诗, because the meanings of Chinese characters used in 文言文 are often more similar to those in modern Japanese than in modern Mandarin.

In other words, classical Chinese is very similar to Japanese in terms of vocabulary, although it is still grammatically similar to Mandarin. For example,  the Chinese sentence “三人行必有我师” can be simply translated as “三人行えば必ず我が師有り” in modern Japanese.

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The Japanese people who have knowledge about Mandarin can relatively easily read classical Chinese (文言) such as 论语 and 唐诗, because the meanings of Chinese characters used in 文言文 are often more similar to those in modern Japanese than in modern Mandarin.

In other words, classical Chinese is very similar to Japanese in terms of vocabulary, although it is still grammatically similar to Mandarin. For example,  the Chinese sentence “三人行必有我师” can be simply translated as “三人行えば必ず我が師有り” in modern Japanese.

]]> <![CDATA[By: mattinchongqing]]> I suppose it's also worth mentioning, even though not used in this lesson, that the original phrase "Confucius says" is not 孔子说 as many learners might originally think.  孔子说 is too "rough" for classical Chinese.  "Confucius says" in the original classical Chinese is 子曰 zi3 yue1 with the 子 representing Confucius and 曰 meaning "to speak" or "to say."

Love the SBTG series!

]]> I suppose it's also worth mentioning, even though not used in this lesson, that the original phrase "Confucius says" is not 孔子说 as many learners might originally think.  孔子说 is too "rough" for classical Chinese.  "Confucius says" in the original classical Chinese is 子曰 zi3 yue1 with the 子 representing Confucius and 曰 meaning "to speak" or "to say."

Love the SBTG series!

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