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Posted on: Office Lunch Options
January 23, 2010 at 8:21 PMshanghai_rocks, I've never used that site before. Looks like a keeper! 谢谢。
By the way, that 56.com site is addictive. I watched http://www.56.com/u76/v_MTk3OTY3MjE.html and really enjoyed it! In my very, very limited understanding of Chinese, that is.
Posted on: Golf
January 23, 2010 at 12:30 AMcorrection: 已经太尺了，乔治早就溜走了。 liūzǒu sneak away
Posted on: Golf
January 22, 2010 at 6:48 PMI am struggling through Curious George Takes a Job (children's book) and found this lesson because I did not quite understand 早就. Amber and all, your comments are so helpful.
Kudos to the actor who, in this dialogue, says:
我早就告诉过你了。Wǒ zǎojiù gàosù guò nǐ le. I told you so.
I did not understand the dialogue on first hearing (I'm elementary level) but he delivered that line so well I understood it and it was laugh-out-loud funny! A very useful line I can't wait to use on my family members!
Here is the line from Curious George:
已经太尺了，乔治早就走了。
Yǐjīng tài chí le, qiáo zhì zǎo jiù zǒu le.
It was already too late. George was long gone. (George had long since left)
Posted on: Western Zodiac
January 22, 2010 at 2:20 PM我是摩羯座的。圣诞节是我的生日。
Posted on: Can't Get to Sleep
January 20, 2010 at 8:16 PMbodawei, that's a good one. Added to my flashcards. Thanks!
Posted on: Can't Get to Sleep
January 20, 2010 at 2:47 PMThank you tal. I'm ready to print this one off and mark it "studied"!
Posted on: Can't Get to Sleep
January 20, 2010 at 9:44 AMOops, thanks, connie! I still can't sleep. 我还睡不着。哈哈。4:40a.m.
Posted on: Can't Get to Sleep
January 20, 2010 at 9:25 AMmisterjess, 失眠 is a good one for my vocabulary list! Do you or anyone know how to say:
I suffer from insomnia.
I have insomnia.
I am so tired! My insomnia kicked in/bothered me last night.
...or any similar versions of the idea? (I really do have a sleep problem and could use these phrases.)
Posted on: Can't Get to Sleep
January 20, 2010 at 9:18 AMI can't sleep tonight so I may as well post the helpful idiomatic usage sentences presented at the end of the lesson. Please correct any mistakes. I find these very helpful and am adding them to my flashcards to help the patterns sink in. Thanks CP!
I want to go to sleep.
Wǒ xiǎng shuì.
我想睡。
I want to go to bed. (you are actually GOING somewhere)
Wǒ qù shuì.
我去睡。
Mom fell asleep.
Māma shuì zháo le.
妈妈睡着了。
I can't fall asleep.
Wǒ shuì bu zháo.
我睡不着。
I'm really worried, I can't fall asleep.
Wǒ hěn dānxīn, wǒ shuì bu zháo.
我很单心，我睡不着。
I can't fall asleep either.
Wǒ yě shuì bu zháo.
我也睡不着。
I don't know why the "Paste from Word" puts in the double spaces. Sorry, my posts always look so big. 我睡不着！4:14 a.m.
Posted on: Can't Get to Sleep
January 23, 2010 at 9:17 PMThe only formal Chinese training I've had was in a U.S. junior college, and we used Integrated Chinese. That is where I suspect many of us learned "shui4 jiao4."
The Chinese students (who were taking the class for an easy "A") often criticized that textbook for not teaching the way people really speak Chinese.
This lesson is one of the several in which I have noticed a difference between IC and CP. Maybe, the difference between a somewhat uncomfortable textbook and real Chinese speak.