User Comments - ewong

Posted on: Street Food Buffet

Interesting ones are 羊肉串兒，涼皮and the 肉夾饃 looks so yummy with the toasted pita :)  

how much do they cost?

肉夾饃 sounds like a transliteration of Roger Moore :)

Posted on: Tool Delivery

你到底想干嘛？instead of 你到底想干吗？

Posted on: Tool Delivery

Just finished studying this lesson! great screaming, sounded real!

I learned that doctors are also called 大夫 （dàifu）

on the pdf, I think the sentence should be

你到底在干嘛？instead of 你到底想干吗？

Posted on: Yoga

Thanks Amber!

Posted on: Yoga

我上週末參加“一班” 瑜伽（瑜伽的量詞 是一班嗎？）這是trial session，我第一次參加的。一小時的流瑜伽 （slow flow）以後-全身體都出汗！後天全身好痛哦！How do you say “trial session”?

Posted on: Cosmetic Surgery and Mooncakes

Great show! The mid-autumn festival celebration for Filipino-Chinese wouldn't be complete without "Pua-Tiong-Chiu" or Mooncake Dice game. You will hear cheering, teasing, shouting especially in Chinatown during this time of the year- the games are played in homes, offices, schools and restaurants.

It’s a very simple game of luck with some of the most outrageous rules. You need one bowl and 6 pieces of dice to play this game. The game has six ranks of prizes- prizes can be cash, grocery items, household appliance depending on the budget. Game players throw the dice by turns into the bowl- the goal is to get at least one dice with “Four” –

prizes start from 1 dice of four, 2 dices of fours, 3 dices of fours and many other different complicated combinations like four of a kind, five of a kind, 1,2,3,4,5,6 combination etc. The player who throws 4 dices or more “Four” gets the coveted jackpot 狀元.

I’ve been playing this game since grade school and have won 4狀元s in my lifetime 哈哈！

Posted on: Mobile Repairman

I learned that you can also use 不划算 bù huá suàn instead of 不合算.

划算  from the glossary means budget-conscious. 不划算 can mean  "not cost-effective"

Posted on: Language Power Struggle

Hi xiaohu,

yes i meant 絕不說不, 絕 as in 絕對 thanks!

Posted on: Language Power Struggle

I have a language partner from Beijing. The conversation is exactly like this. We would talk about the Olympics- I would speak/ type in Chinese and she would respond in English. We help each other by filling-in and the Chinese / English words we don't know and correct each other as we speak... I’m always asking her the Chinese equivalents of English sayings like Never say never = 覺不說不

perhaps we can have a lesson about it. Cheers!

Posted on: Language Power Struggle

great lesson