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Posted on: Chinese Fruits
July 13, 2010 at 2:44 AM

Hi alex

In the video channels > vocab tour there's a lesson called Trip to the Vegetable Market, I think you'd enjoy it.

(I can't give you a link, sorry! I've just tried 3 times to link to it but it seems the site is not working properly and I can't.)

Posted on: Chinese Fruits
July 13, 2010 at 1:13 AM

Hi alex

glad you enjoyed it! In fact it comes from another Chinesepod lesson (link below) which mention of 杨梅 reminded me of!

http://chinesepod.com/lessons/sheep-wolves-and-fruit-a-riddle

Posted on: Chinese Fruits
July 12, 2010 at 12:39 PM

起来 qǐlai is often used after a verb as a complement to express various meanings. Among other meanings, 起来 qǐlai may mean 'begin to...,'

e.g. Wǒmen bù děng bàba le, chī qǐlai ba. (我们不等爸爸了，吃起来吧。) = We're not waiting for Dad, let's start eating.

In this lesson's dialogue I'd say the sense of 吃起来 is that the process of eating begins, continues, and turns out to be 太麻烦了！

http://www.nciku.com/search/zh/detail/%E8%B5%B7%E6%9D%A5/1311770

Posted on: World Cup Talk
July 12, 2010 at 11:21 AM

呵呵，怎么会呢？肯定是欧洲人啊！

Posted on: World Cup Talk
July 12, 2010 at 11:18 AM

哇，you certainly know your portraits of the Bard, but then you are babaBARDwan, 呵呵。

Posted on: Chinese Fruits
July 12, 2010 at 1:53 AM

草原上来了一群羊。猜一种水果 --- 草莓！
草原上又来了一群狼。猜一种水果 --- 杨梅！

Cǎoyuán shàng láile yī qún yáng. Cāi yīzhǒng shuǐguǒ --- cǎoméi!
Cǎoyuán shàng yòu láile yī qún láng. Cāi yīzhǒng shuǐguǒ --- yángméi!

A flock of sheep came to a field. Guess the fruit --- strawberry!
Then a pack of wolves came to the field. Guess the fruit --- red bayberry!

Posted on: World Cup Talk
July 12, 2010 at 1:36 AM

You're always a gent mate! 'Cor, wotta howler, right? Gotta be old Bill. I guess I'm used to seeing him with less hair - lol.

"The game is up." - Cymbeline (Act III, Scene III).

Posted on: World Cup Talk
July 12, 2010 at 12:45 AM

Cheers mate, but there's always a sub or two right? ;)

Who are you in your latest incarnation by the way? And er... why?

Posted on: Whatever...
July 11, 2010 at 9:51 AM

呵呵，you'd be better off buying the book mate, much kinder to the planet! (There's a lot missing from that preview anyway.)

Posted on: Whatever...
July 11, 2010 at 8:09 AM

Whoah ho chanelle, I was just about to reach for the credit card, then I saw: "4,300 grammatically wrong sentences"! Grammatically wrong?!? 怎么会呢？lol

I also dig this

http://books.google.com/books?id=AK7FsF9uJToC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Tuttle+Chinese+English+dictionary&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

lots of example sentences there