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jimijames, thankyou for this insight. Very interesting. Probably irrelevant but I couldn't help but think of how average gastric emptying time is a... Read more
中午 zhōngwǔ is lunch time. 午 wǔ time period has an origin in Chinese Medicine. That each organ system the zangfu 脏腑 organ system is broken into 2 hou... Read more
There's a sort of line-dancing people do here in Yangzhou. Is there a Chinese word for this? Its definitely not ballroom dancing, its kind of synchron... Read more
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjIwODYyOTc2.html Check this Bruce Lee documentary on Jeet Kune Do Read more
zhen, my rollover as well as astonished also gives flabbergasted which I guess is closer to your dictionaries meaning. Read more
If salad isn't a traditional food in China? Then why do we have chinese chicken salad here? Is that just an ameircan dish? Read more
Bah! :) * inflammatory comment about how Chinese is hard just to annoy JohnB* ;-) Read more
In my experience, southern Chinese are really, really specific with family member words, whereas northern Chinese tend to use more general terms unles... Read more
You are right. There is no such saying 我认你了 as for I recognize you. In very special context, you can say that but very different meaning. If you... Read more