User Comments - azzote

Posted on: Blind Massage

What does classism has to do with any of this ?

Anyway, all the handicaped I ever saw where on the street or on touristic sites or the subway, begging, singing... All of them. Maybe a few ones just moving around with a family member - but never alone, never independant, never working, and many of them very badly equiped.

Never saw a blind-helping labrador, or a life-helping dog, never saw an electric wheelchair out there...

Never saw a disabled people parking place. Never saw one street I thought I could roll along in a wheelchair.

I guess, as well as your job might show you the bright side because it's an enclosed and protected society with it's own rules, mine reminds me every day of the realities and issues of China.

Or, it's just Yunnan ! ^^

Posted on: Nothing more than 而已 (eryi) and 罢了 (bale)

It's a good lesson but I can't really see myself using these words. It is just soooo strange to add another "only" like that at the end of the sentence. All patterns are weird but this one is super-weird !!!

I hope my friends will use it often otherwise it's going to slip out of my head !

我只是开玩笑了而已.

So weird ! ^^

Is that even correct ? I'm not sure about the grammatical structure of the sentence before the eryi/bale.

And could I say :

我只是开玩笑了罢了. ?

Weird.

Posted on: Blind Massage

Very sad lesson, and very good as it reveals one of the sadest aspects of Chinese society. If you're blind, you do massages. If you're a cripple, you beg. The only other option is to stay at home.

It's like those "blind lines" on the pavement in beijing that so often go... straight in a column. But anyway people park on it all the time. It's already hard to evoluate when you have all your senses, I can't imagine when the handicaped ones will be able to get out of their closets safely... and be part of the outside world...

It's also interresting to explain how the Chinese don't turn around things like we do with our soft terms. "seing person" is a just very nice way to say normal. I'm not specially shocked by 正常人 as it is said in a physical sense, and it's true, the blind body is not normal and it's a problem (and a big one). Old people is old people too, but it is always said with great respect.

In my country we call old people "3rd and 4th age" but we still let them die alone in nursing homes.

Posted on: One-Way Street Scuffle

As long as so many people will have immunity on the road... nothing will change.

My office is in a medium-size-street in beijing, I've worked there 3 years, for what I know at least 4 people died on that street in these 3 years, including a grand-ma going to the market.

Posted on: One-Way Street Scuffle

Manu thanks for this GREAT lesson !!!

I finally have a few good tools in my pocket for when that kind of thing occurs. Road hits are always a terrible moment when I feel sooooo vulnerable, this should help !

In Beijing it's common practice to burn a red light or to drive over pedestrians, crossing (on the green) or simply and so common, just to scare them for fun. It's even worse on a bike, that's why I had to stop riding mine to go to work, it was 20 minutes of pure fear and anger.

The worst drivers are the army, the governement and the police, and of course all the rich people more or less related to these organisations : they have the big cars, the good plates and the loud horns. But the new rich of Beijing are not on the side : they buy a huge SUV and forget about the real world...

Posted on: Keeping and Leaving

Thank you connie !!!! Small corrections make big progresses ! ;o)

Yesterday 1 hour after the lesson I saw on the street, on a shoes shop, this :

一双不留

Incredible !!! "Not one pair should remain" or something like that.

[seems i can't "reply" ??]

Posted on: Keeping and Leaving

The tower of confusion is growing on my side, but that might be because I didn't know "liu2" before !

I try some basic everydaylife sentences here :

1）阿姨，您能不能给我留这个面条？ 我现在不饿。

āyí, nín néng bùnéng gěi wǒ liú zhègè miàntiáo ? wǒ xiànzài bù e.

2) 我给了你留几个菜。

wǒ gěi le nǐ liú jǐge cài 。

3）这本书你留着吧。

zhe běn shū nǐ liú zhe ba.

4）我们家快拆了。不在保留区内。 （？？？？）

wǒmen jiā kuài chāi le 。 bùzài bǎoliú qū nèi。

5）我觉得这个房子不值保留。 （？？？）

wǒ juéde zhègè fángzi bùzhí bǎoliú

6）我要上厕所，麻烦您帮我保管我的背包 ？ （？？？？？？）

wǒ yào shàng cèsuǒ ，máfan nín bāng wǒ bǎoguǎn wǒde bei4bāo？

Posted on: An Introduction to Chengyu

This was sooooo good !

Posted on: Daddy Changes a Diaper

The discussion about the "tǐng" nose is just hillarious ! :oD

I've noted a mistake in the exercises "matching" ( 8. 这个方法_____有用 A. 绝对 not B. 已经 )

Also yesterday one mistake in Fog lesson, in matching again.

It didn't happen again after refreshing so it's a bug or something.

It's not a very big deal for anyone a little comfortable in Intermediate but please check it out, it could be confusing if it happens all the time.

thanks

Posted on: Fog or Smog?

Thank you bababardwan !

Yeah I've been out for many months... I find myself needing to make "chinese pod breaks" after every 6 months sessions to catch up on the field ! ;o)

I hope I'll get answers from CP, in the meantime, I'll juste copy-paste in a word document.

I lost many hours trying to make anki work... even with a friends'help...!

For the 2, I see what you mean. I get the point too, learning by heart a few sentences if the best way. I think they should add a section "random training" or something, more large. I'll explore the testing section.

many thanks !