User Comments - bendidelaowai
bendidelaowai
Posted on: “混在中国”最字榜
November 16, 2008 at 7:14 AMWow, interesting discussion around. I guess every nation is trying them put themselves as the most important. Though, a lot depends on particular person's education. In my major group at the Uni, nobody will call me “老外”，even if a new professor is teaching us, my group will always say "我们班有国际的同学"。 On the other hand China's history is full of wars, is full of periods of total isolation and respectively the opposite. The only thing is that, the speed of information nowadays i measured in thousands km's per second and not in km/h there is a way to learn about the world...and I met a lot of descent people:)，yesterday I was sitting around a hot-pot with Taiwanese, American-born Chinese, Chinese and Nepali friends. Without any division by anything.
The language reflects the history and the social proces...Honestly, I never heard somebody call a foreigner "鬼"- neither in a big city, nor in a small village. As other users already told - these names come from different situations and different times.
pearltowerpete - I agree with you, to know is the key to understand, and vice-versa.
Posted on: The Big Deal about Shenzhou 7
November 15, 2008 at 7:01 AMWhat's next, Mars? China is becoming a new and powerful player in the game of space exploration... Though, a question to natives of here, why I hear so many voices around that Chinese are not to happy with government spending money on the space exploration? Doing a little poll at my university, most of other students (of course Chinese students)said that they ignored the 3rd manned mission in the news... Any suggestions?
For me it's always exciting to hear about space:)
本地的老外
Posted on: “混在中国”最字榜
November 15, 2008 at 5:18 AMhmm, changye:)
From the university environment point of of view, there are not to many jokes about Mao, young people here do not dare. Also depends were your routes are from and how do people here communicate with you:) I guess, I mentioned above enough to figure out where I am from:), that also makes looking at China very different. On the other hand, thx for an interesting comment:)
Posted on: 涩女郎
November 14, 2008 at 4:12 PM男的也找爱情：） 我妈妈说的每次都是女的找：）ｍｏｓｔａｆａｋｈａｔｅｒ，其实你让我笑起来：）
Posted on: “混在中国”最字榜
November 14, 2008 at 3:11 PM先对connie：
谢谢很快地反映于解决问题：）其实我听了chinesepod很久，对你们的声音很熟悉；因为你们有一个星期可以免费体验， 我利用好那一段时间下载大概所有的课程。我最喜欢听高级和媒体课程：）大概所有的高级和媒体的课程都听过了：）对你说的我的中文泰棒了：哪里哪里，没有！ 谢谢你们做这种非标准课程， 因为北京语言大学的教材的内容是无聊死了的教材。我两年前上语言班的时候每一次上课都想睡觉。我也很高兴，因为你们不强老外学习北京口音，我很高兴！我住在南方，比你们并不远：）很喜欢南方于南方的口音。
我有一个问题，今天教了一个学生英语，我们遇到了教一个问题：
While being a college student you are far less exposed to the problems of adults. - 怎么把“far less”成中文？
对wxgcathy:
当然我知道这句话是毛主席新道德的思想，但是由于看过了一份记者的”17年在中国“就有自己的观点，不喜欢这个口号。那个记者也是从发展社会主义来的，它是在中国代表苏联，写了自己在中国的经验从1952年到1969年。在这一本书他写了，在北京的时候他亲眼看到怎么毛主席成立了红卫兵队；他也说了”为人民服务“当了为红卫兵的精神，也写了在他们的包上面。可能我的观点与中国人不同的。这本书是用俄语写的，叫：M。 Yakovlev "17年在中国”。你会让我非常高兴，如果你回解释自己对这个问题的理解，因为我看得出来你怀疑我的。
本地的老外
Posted on: “混在中国”最字榜
November 14, 2008 at 9:41 AM还有一句话我忘了说。。。 文章的mp3不能下在，不管使用Safari或IE浏览器，也别的用户提示也没用。 这个情况在媒体课程比较正常， 有老一点的课程也无法下载。可不可以调整一下? 还是需要到管理发一个电子邮件？而且一个很笨的问题，为什么iTunes不能下在两个mp3，只会下载课程mp3?
本地的老外
Posted on: “混在中国”最字榜
November 14, 2008 at 9:26 AMchangye, you can use:
中国人都很好奇 ：）好奇 is to be curious:)
本地的老外
Posted on: Surviving Winter and Singles Scene for Expat Girls
December 15, 2008 at 5:35 AMhmmm, my students, knowing that I have a Taiwanese boyfriend, ask me a lot "Can a western girl love a Chinese?" with hope in their eyes, though I guess they want to emigrate... On the other hand...not all expat guys are into local girls. I guess it's some kind of destination/fate for each person. In my 3 years spent here as an expat girl I was lonely for the longest period of 3 months. luck? To the winter: windows! scary thing, here in China. I happen to have a bit of wood around my window so I hang additional curtains with office push pins (one is thick piece of cloth, another is big rain coat + regular curtain) not to let the wind in. My old clothes serve as additional insolation to the window. And my room faces south;) + a heater.