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Posted on: Not Cooked Enough
September 28, 2009 at 6:18 AMFun lesson, even though we all get a bit squeemish about this stuff. The scream at the end is hilarious!
I liked the phrase in the expansion about 'seven tenths cooked' (meaning medium-well done).
In Beijing you can go to 'snack street' and get scorpions skewered for the BBQ. They're still wriggling around. EEK!
Being vegetarian, I opted for the tofu, not realizing it was the specially fermented 'stinky tofu'. So nasty!
I'm really liking the scritter feature. It really helps.
Posted on: Two Tough Ladies
September 21, 2009 at 5:11 AMI wish this were true:
你真聪明，一学就会。
(You're really smart. You mastered that as soon as you started studying it.)
Posted on: Two Tough Ladies
September 21, 2009 at 5:01 AMMilked your head! Ha! Ha!
Can you explain 嘞?
Posted on: Coming Up Next: 接下来，然后，还有，那么
September 20, 2009 at 7:42 AMAs they say at the end of this lesson, groovy.
I saw a show with Dashan performing crosstalk when I was taking a bus from Wuhan to Beijing. I wish I could have understood the dialog. It would be so cool to be able to speak as well as he does!
Posted on: Getting Off the Metro
September 20, 2009 at 6:33 AMIn Shanghai and Beijing I would say '请让一让' (qing1rang4yi1rang4) on the subway, which got me a few strange looks. Were they just suprised that I knew what to say, or did I make a mistake?
Posted on: Tone Change Rule: Yi '一'
September 16, 2009 at 5:00 AMIf you get this tone rule wrong, would it be like talking with bad foriegn accent?
Posted on: Pearl Tea
September 14, 2009 at 5:13 AMI'm doing this lesson long after it was posted, but maybe there's others in the sane boat.
In Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen milk tea is all the rage. A friend of ours said that everyone there hates coffee, but if you make coffee flavoured milk tea they love it. Ha, ha!
We had some at a little neighborhood spot. We had the coffee flavor, blended like a slurpee with ice. Great for beating the 40 degree heat! You could also get it with sweetened red beans in it.
How do you ask for it 'blended'?
Oh, and Starbucks was making an iced blended frappuchino with coffee jelly chunks in it. Any of you tried that?
Posted on: Hotels, Hostels and Restaurants
September 10, 2009 at 4:40 PMI traveled all around China for 3 months this summer with my family! We stayed in 16 Cities, mostly staying in International Youth Hostels. (青年旅馆).
What a great experience! We even popped into the Chinesepod office where we got to meet everybody! What a great bunch!
One thing I liked about staying at the hostels was that we could book our next destination's hostel on-line. I tried to do it over the phone once, but got stuck when they asked me some question that I couldn't understand. Talking on the phone for newbies is terrifying!
Another great thing about the hostels was that we met folks from all around the world. Very cool.
The hostel we stayed at in Shanghai is called Blue Mountain. It was one of our favorites!
Posted on: Do You Want a Map?
April 30, 2009 at 6:14 AMDo Chinese men refuse to read maps like north american men do? "I'm not lost!"
Traveller's tip: Don't stand in the middle of the sidewalk with your map unfurled looking completely lost. Even us big idiotic foreigners need to have some sense!
Jenny, your extra bits of info and enthusiasm make these lessons so great!
Posted on: Anybody home?
October 26, 2009 at 5:21 AM我是鬼! (wǒshìguǐ!) I am a ghost!
The character for ghost is part of my Chinese name!