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changye
Posted on: Special Green Hat
March 17, 2010 at 7:15 AMHere is another kind of hat that Chinese people don't want to wear. It's called "高帽"(tall hat), and this was used for anti-revolutionalists during Cultural Revolution in the PRC. It's just worth seeing.
Posted on: Special Green Hat
March 17, 2010 at 7:00 AM我这个日本人对自己祖国的了解也不够深，更何况是中国这么庞大的国家！
Posted on: Special Green Hat
March 17, 2010 at 4:18 AM我相信，中国人民解放军不可能有“Green Berets”。
Posted on: 世界末日？
March 17, 2010 at 3:29 AM大家用不着过于担心，我没记错的话，早在几十年前就有“世界末日”这个说法，当时有些媒体过分地渲染“世界末日”。我还记得小时候总觉得这个世界快要灭亡了！其实，我们抱有危机感并不是坏事，因为危机感能提高人类对自己的了解，会迫使人类采取必要的措施，从而很可能把世界末日推迟“一点”，换句话说，危机感就是一种“保险”。失去危机感就是最大的危机。
Posted on: The Customer Comes First
March 16, 2010 at 11:31 AMHi sydcarten
I guess that "Langganan adalah Allah" should be more blasphemous than "Langganan adalah Tuhan" for most Indonesian people, hehe. Thanks!
Posted on: Getting to Know CPod Teacher Helen (and exciting content news)!
March 16, 2010 at 11:26 AMHi xiao_liang
Many thanks. I should have known about that sooner!
Posted on: Getting to Know CPod Teacher Helen (and exciting content news)!
March 16, 2010 at 10:37 AMHi xiaophil
Is the English word "guys" only for men? I thought it would be for both men and women......
Posted on: Getting to Know CPod Teacher Helen (and exciting content news)!
March 16, 2010 at 8:41 AMHi bodawei and hkboy
The main reason why Korean people abandoned Chinese characters was "politic", exactly speaking, it was a matter of nationalism, and it's still a highly political issue in Korea. Korean alphabet (Han-guel) is a kind of "national pride" for most Korean people, just like Chinese characters is for Chinese people.
Korean students learn about 1,800 Chinese characters at school, but most Korean guys learn them half- heartedly because college entrance exam has no "Chinese character" subject. In any case, Korean alphabet is very easy to write and input, so most young guys don't want Chinese characters back.
That said, now a lot of Korean people think learning Chinese characters (and Chinese language) is important for the development of their country, and the Korean alphabet association is strongly (and politically) fighting against such movement.
Personally I think Korean people shouldn't have abandoned using Chinese characters since the Korean language has tons of Chinese characters, just like Japanese.
Posted on: Getting to Know CPod Teacher Helen (and exciting content news)!
March 16, 2010 at 8:24 AMHi daniel70
Many thanks. That's a very interesting web page. Chinese is grammatically very different from Korean and Japanese, but the three East Asian languages have one thing in common, namely, "Chinese words". Japanese has tons of Chinese words borrowed from Chinese, and Korean also has tons of Chinese words borrowed from Chinese and Japanese. Interestingly, there is a lot of so-called "Japan-made Chinese words", most of which are academic words, and they were exported to China and Korea in the past (mainly before the war), and they are still broadly used in these countries. Ironically, 共产主义 (communism) is a typical Japan-made Chinese word.
Posted on: Special Green Hat
March 17, 2010 at 7:43 AMThe CCP's reaction is very quick. It was not blocked a few minutes ago. How about this one? It's a rather long URL.
http://images.google.cn/imglanding?q=%E6%96%87%E9%9D%A9%20%E9%AB%98%E5%B8%BD&imgurl=http://img3.tianya.cn/photo/2008/1/27/6576610_11368225.jpg&imgrefurl=http://blog.tianya.cn/blogger/post_show.asp%3FBlogID%3D888132%26PostID%3D12542150&usg=__XIJR8CAYGU8NuD3iq_g2IlssuKA=&h=640&w=636&sz=59&hl=zh-CN&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=hETYRl3y67TrRM:&tbnh=137&tbnw=136&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%25E6%2596%2587%25E9%259D%25A9%2B%25E9%25AB%2598%25E5%25B8%25BD%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dzh-CN%26newwindow%3D1%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&newwindow=1&tbs=isch:1&start=0#tbnid=hETYRl3y67TrRM&start=3
http://image.baidu.com/i?ct=503316480&z=0&tn=baiduimagedetail&word=%B8%DF%C3%B1+%CE%C4%B8%EF&in=24752&cl=2&cm=1&sc=0&lm=-1&pn=51&rn=1&di=2851574130&ln=372&fr=&ic=0&s=0