User Comments - changye
changye
Posted on: Mother's Day
May 7, 2010 at 1:42 PMHi bodawei
I will call my son first thing in the tomorrow morning to ask him not to say "I picked you up at the foot of a bridge" to his future children, hehe.
Posted on: 小太监进宫
May 7, 2010 at 9:40 AM古代时候宦官制度比较普遍，比如说古希腊，罗马，东罗马帝国，古埃及等古代主要国家都有宦官，加上欧洲还有阉伶歌手(castrato).
Posted on: Mother's Day
May 7, 2010 at 8:25 AMWhen I was a child, my parents sometimes (jokingly) told me that I was "picked up" at the foot of a bridge when I was a baby, which is one of pet-stories of Japanese parents. I remember that I said the same thing to my son ..... he was very angry then, hehe.
Posted on: Mother's Day
May 7, 2010 at 4:06 AMHI sydcarten
That's very close to Christmas. I don't know if it's a good thing for mothers who believe in Christianity, hehe. Terima kasih banyak atas bantuan anda!
Posted on: Mother's Day
May 7, 2010 at 3:40 AM好主意，省事又很省钱，呵呵。 That's a good idea. You can save both trouble and money, hehe.
Posted on: Mother's Day
May 7, 2010 at 3:04 AMSelamat hari ibu! Tolong beritahukan kapan hari ibu di Indonesia. Apakah ada juga hari ayah di Indonesia? Hari ayah apakah sama penting dengan hari ibu?
Posted on: Mother's Day
May 7, 2010 at 2:24 AMHI bodawei
Come on, you're learning Chinese culture through learning Chinese, aren't you? Nothing is strange with the sentence. When I was a child, my mother sometimes even said to me, “今天开始你不是我家的孩子了！” (From now on, you are not my child anymore!), hehe.
Posted on: Stop Speeding!
May 6, 2010 at 8:13 AMHi jiangcheng1985
Let me give you a piece of advice. I recommend you get a copy of "Collins Cobuild English Dictionary" 《柯林斯英语词典》. This dictionary shows you word frequency, which is based on corpus, using five-star scale.
I'm afraid that "assiduous" has only one star, and this means it's also a written word and very rarely used, or at least it's not colloquial. I can't even find "sedulous" in the dictionary, probably because it's used less often than "assiduous" is. I think the word "diligent" would be more appropriate for us to use here in the forum.
Word frequency doesn't always work well, but it's definitely helpful for us learners.
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Posted on: Learning English in China
May 6, 2010 at 4:29 AM> I am currently focusing on how much I love the composition of Chinese characters
I think this is a very good tactics. Looking into the history of Chinese characters is really fun and, fortunately, not so difficult for us non-native Chinese speakers.
Posted on: Must-Have Modals
May 8, 2010 at 2:05 AM板凳 (ban3deng4, woody bench).