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dunderklumpen
Posted on: Don't push that button
January 2, 2009 at 10:41 PMThe pinyin "- uan" is rather tricky. It's usually pronounced as "- wan", but is pronounced as something like "- wen" when it appears in "xuan, quan, juan, yuan". In short, these "u" (= yi) is different from other "u" (= u) in, for example, "tuan" or "duan". I would appreciate other guys' insights.
Thanks changye for the explanation. Here are some audio examples:
xuan, quan, juan
tuan, duan
Posted on: The Powerless Phones
January 2, 2009 at 9:45 PMSorry about the fontsize. Once again the text editor went crazy. I tried and tried making the letters smaller, without success :/ If anobody know how to handle this problem, please tell me.
Posted on: The Powerless Phones
January 2, 2009 at 9:29 PM本子 [běnzi]
1. book; notebook
2. edition
source
Posted on: The Powerless Phones
December 31, 2008 at 10:42 PMandrew_c
Wow, I never knew how to type Chinese characters. Thanks a lot for the Pinyin IME link.
谢谢你 :)
Posted on: Christmas Surprise
December 31, 2008 at 1:20 PMHi all!
Does anybody know if there is a chinese word for kick-sled?
Posted on: Christmas Surprise
December 28, 2008 at 9:02 PMI had dinner in the local chinese restautant and asked about get and recieve. Just thougt I ought to share the fantabulous ;) dialogue here. And some additional material.
Waitress: you say "wo3 shou1dao4 yi1 ge4 li3wu4".
Me: shou1da4? shou1, same sound as "hand", shou3? And da4, big?
W: No, first tone. And not da4. Dao4.
Me: oh, shou1dao4?
W: ng.
...
Me: shi4bu5shi5 dao4lai2 de5 dao4?
W: ng. Yes.
And the additional material:
收到 shōudào (shou1dao4)
1. receive; get; achieve; obtain
收 shōu (shou1)
1. [verb] receive; accept
2. [verb] put away; take in
3. [verb] collect
到 dào (dao4)
1. [verb] arrive; reach
3. [verb] used as a verb complement to show the result of an action.
As per usual I found the additional material here: http://www.nciku.com/search/zh/detail/%E6%94%B6%E5%88%B0/38277
I'm just a student, remember :) Feel free to comment.
Posted on: Christmas Surprise
December 28, 2008 at 2:15 PMHow many presents did you get? Did you get any nice presents? -Very important questions when I was a kid ;)
Now, how do we say that in chinese? (Not nessecarily focusing on "many" and "nice" but the way of saying "get" or "recieve".)
Posted on: Not So Silent Night
December 27, 2008 at 6:39 PMtvan and changye
thanks for the replies on reindeer. I guess there are sad stories about all minorities. The sami people is a minority group in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula. After the second world war the borders to Russia were closed and mines were planted in the buffer zones. The sami had to choose which side to live on and several decades after the war, relatives on the different sides of the border were not able to contact each other. The sami has also been subject to compulsory transfer and race biology. Source: http://www.samer.se/
Posted on: Always in Chinese: 总是 (zǒngshì) and 老是 (lǎoshi)
December 25, 2008 at 10:45 AMThanks the help changye.
"What do you need?" is not common in the middle and north parts of Sweden. "Can I help you? Do you need any help? Do you find what you are looking for?" are common phrases for shop assistants strolling on the floor. If you go to a service desk the assistant is more likely to ask "What can I do for you?" or "How can I help you?".
Posted on: The Powerless Phones
January 3, 2009 at 10:41 AMkanjihanzi
Thanks, I will try that. I guess my mistake is to paste stuff from websites into chinesepod, then cut and paste it into an unformatting text editor (when I realise about the links and formatting problem) and finally paste it back inte chinesepod. But then the chinesepod text editor has already gone crazy from the first pasting and creates a mess. Let's hope your way will bring success :)