User Comments - fokine2
fokine2
Posted on: Street Food
September 1, 2011 at 7:19 PMHuídá wèi lujiaojie, bú xiè. Wǒ běn shì shū de liàngcí yǐjīng zhīdào le. Bùguò běn de shūfá bèi xiě zài nà de hézi lǐ. Duìbuqǐ wǒ de wénfǎ.
Posted on: How's business?
September 1, 2011 at 5:11 PMIn the 1st expansion, is it ok to say: "Nǐ rúhé hé wàiguó tóuzīzhě jìngzhēng?"; and in the 12th: "Wànyī nǐ yǒu rènhé kùnnan, qǐng xiěxìn gěi wǒmen."?
Posted on: Street Food
August 31, 2011 at 8:11 PMIt seems the measure word 'ben' hasn't been written in the box with 'nà' in the 11th expansion exercise.
Posted on: What's That Website?
August 30, 2011 at 8:27 PMIs 'shàng' used for visiting other things besides websites? Could you please give some examples? Xièxie.
Posted on: Requesting a Raise
August 26, 2011 at 6:53 PMIn regards to the opening grammar remarks, we don't 'do a verb' in English, but we use a verb.
Posted on: Medicine Doses
August 26, 2011 at 4:25 PMIt sounds as if the speaker in the 7th expansion sentence is saying 'tian' instead of 'piàn'.
Posted on: What's That Website?
September 1, 2011 at 8:02 PMI see what you mean here. Perhaps there is no specific word for 'to visit'
in Mandarin as we use it in English. I'll have to look it up in my big dictionary when I get home. We don't say I visit church or court or school or work as it seems the Chinese do. For us 'visit' normally means you go for some special reason to a place you don't usually go, e.g., one says "I visited my parents over the weekend" because you don't see your parents so much since you grew up & moved out. Or else, "I visited someone in the hospital" because you don't usually go to the hospital. Or, "I visited the 9/11 Memorial when I went to New York." 'Shàng' seems to be more general in use in the way we use 'go to'. I had been wondering what the word was for 'to visit' when I saw 'shàng' used here in the expansion as 'visit'. I realize it was just a matter of loose translation and could have been 'go to the website' just as easily. Sorry to take up your time.