User Comments - amber
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Posted on: Flowers and Bugs
March 7, 2008 at 3:21 AMhi venker31, To pick flowers is: 摘花 (zhāihuā)
Posted on: MSN and QQ
March 6, 2008 at 9:18 AMvandyke, 此致敬礼 (Cǐzhì jìnglǐ ) is the Chinese equivalent of 'Yours Sincerely'
Posted on: My Scooter Won't Start
March 6, 2008 at 8:50 AMhi nicolas, The 才 (cái) in 我才知道 (Wǒ cái zhīdào) emphasizes that someone just now found something out, or realized, as in the following example. A： 他要结婚了。 A： Tā yào jiéhūn le. He is going to get married. B:是吗？我才知道。 B: Shì ma? Wǒ cái zhīdào. Really? I didn't know (as in, until you just told me this second)
Posted on: 一...就... (yī...jiù...) pattern
March 3, 2008 at 10:23 AMno, no Clay... that was a dream sequence you had...
Posted on: Beijing/Shanghai and Being a Good Guest
February 29, 2008 at 10:22 AMI'm not exaggerating either. It might have even been 18. It was all very yum. If I knew how to post a photo in these comments I could post a pic of all of us and the dishes she made on the table!
Posted on: Long Distance and Cultural Mysteries
February 29, 2008 at 4:06 AMhi channa, Usually for Skype you end up with the headphones that have a microphone built in. Headphones: 耳机 (ěrjī) Then to be more specific, you can tell them you want: 有麦克风的那种 (Yǒu màikèfēng de nà zhǒng) (The kind with the microphone) They generally cost about 30 RMB.
Posted on: Yang Jie's Fury
February 29, 2008 at 4:02 AMhi sparechange, Actually 神经病 (shénjīngbìng) is a noun in Chinese, and the measure word is often left out when using the phrase. Literally you could translate that sentence as: 他是个神经病 (tā shìge shénjīngbìng...) He is a psycho / or a 'crazy'....
Posted on: Long Distance and Cultural Mysteries
February 28, 2008 at 2:18 AMtaiwanrunner, Interesting that you mention that. I remember that about Taiwan. The funniest time was when one day, in the morning, my English student told me that I looked fatter... and then my afternoon student told me that I looked like I had lost weight. All in one day! haha. Also in Taiwan they also are always complimenting foreigners left right and centre on how good looking they are (even when we're not!). I find that people don't really comment on appearance as much in Shanghai. Interesting.
Posted on: London
February 28, 2008 at 2:09 AMhi henrylee, For now, (the instructions to the exercise explain) you enter the answer using pinyin. Later, we are going to add the character input function. So that may be why you are getting a zero score, if you are trying to enter characters it won't register at the moment.
Posted on: Insect Market and Having a Baby
March 7, 2008 at 6:50 AMhi guys, sorry, should all be ok now