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Typo? This dialog sentence is labeled as being spoken by speaker B: 这个 抹茶 慕斯 也 不错 ， 不 甜 不 腻 ， 很 适合 夏天 吃 。 &nbs... Read more
hey mate, you'll like this one: Web Search Interest: 面包房. Sichuan (China), 2004 - present. Not enough search volume to show graphs ....so 到底好... Read more
“(I don't make any claims about Shanghai - it may be sufficiently westernised for people to use the word 面包房 or whatever.)" ...well according to go... Read more
Interesting that Jenny seems to be saying that 攻略 is a relatively recent word. I thought it would be interesting to check it out on google trends:... Read more
ok, just found this: Per-capita consumption of bakery products in China stood at 4.1 kilograms, or 9 pounds, in 2009, nearly double the 2.1 kilogra... Read more
ps I was going to add that I know there is a lot of skepticism about dictionary entries and whether a lot of entries are valid, and while I think it's... Read more
"They refer to them by their brand name, then the name of the store" hmm, well I guess we tend to do something similar here. I don't usually say ba... Read more
Hi George 'the people here in Baoding would know that either a 咖啡厅 or 咖啡店 would refer to a coffee shop' I see what you mean, as an intellectual... Read more
Hi Baba Sure there are words in the dictionary, and they may sound like good translations, I'm just saying that I doubt that they are used. I'm not... Read more
Ps I wonder what percentage of chinese users use google (cf baidu etc) and whether lower hit numbers on google could also partly be accounted for by t... Read more