User Comments - garry
garry
Posted on: Good Night
October 13, 2008, 07:57 AMWhat are they watching on tv? Alvin and the Chipmunks in Chinese perhaps.
laogong must be hinting at something, otherwise why not just announce, 我去睡觉啊！Surely, he knows what to do if he is tired.
No, it is good, useful dialogue. I will use it tonight.
Posted on: A Very Special Day
October 03, 2008, 03:48 AM太好了人人在ChinesePod.
I was reading all the previous posts and I didn't think that I needed to say anything more, but then I thought better and so here I am.
My life has changed considerably in the last year or so, (for the better I hope). ChinesePod.com has been a part of this change, and I am grateful to everyone there. I am making progress with my Chinese language, but the best part is getting to know everyone here.
I have enjoyed it all and will into the future.
Beyond 2000!
Posted on: Introducing a Friend
September 30, 2008, 03:34 AMHi macallus88,
您好 is a respectful greeting given to someone who demands your respect, someone who is your senior, for example. The correct response is 你好 as this acknowledges the respect that has been shown. Two equals would always use 你好.
Posted on: I'm pregnant!
September 30, 2008, 12:51 AMHi pinkjeans and wxgcathy,
I was interested in your discussion on 酸梅, and I looked it up in my dictionary and it said that this was a smoked plum. This is obviously a way of preserving a plum, but 话梅 must be a different process. I looked up prune, (dried plum), also and the dictionary did not make a distinction between this and a plum, and called it 每字.
Posted on: Farm Animals
September 25, 2008, 01:02 AMHi josht77 and barbardwan,
I am a big fan of anything to do with the 西游记 story. This comes from watching Monkey Magic many years ago, and then seeing the Chinese version on TV when I was holidaying in China. I said to my local friends, 'look Monkey Magic', they of course did not know what I was talking about. They knew nothing of the Japanese series. I watched it even though I did not understand anything of what was being said. I bought the entire show on vcd and I still watch it, and I can understand a lot of it now. Both versions are great, and I wanted to discuss all things 悟空 with like minded people, so I started a group on the topic.
This may not seem to have anything to do with today's lesson, but there is a horse and a pig in the story.
Posted on: F1 in China
September 20, 2008, 12:35 AMThis lesson was great fun. I had to listen twice I enjoyed it so much. Not that I am a great Formula 1 fan, and this time the male and female seemed on level ground. The man obviously overcome with the thrill of it all, and the woman not, though she does go to the races. I would note however that Jenny was the only one who captured the sound of the F1 engine with any degree of accuracy. I was hanging out the washing and listening to the podcast and I heard Jenny making the woo-woo noise. I wondered what she was doing, then I realised. Fabulous!
Posted on: Afraid of Dogs
September 04, 2008, 05:33 AM大家好！
I was reading the comments, and I asked myself, Does Chinese have the same ambiguity as English in sentences like, 'Look there is a man eating dog"?
If it is written you can tell if the man is eating the dog or the dog is eating the man, but not necessarily if spoken. I suppose there is a Chinese word for man-eating which is not just two words tied together.
Just food for thought....
Posted on: The Panda's Secret Wish
August 16, 2008, 12:36 AMPanda2,
having a pet giant panda would be great while small, but could you imagine having one of those adult giant panda's eating all you bamboo shoots and lying around sleeping all day?
I find it interesting that the name panda sounds Chinese, but they don't call them by this name. Does anyone know where it comes from?
Posted on: How's the weather?
October 28, 2008, 11:33 PM您好老师们！今天天气在悉尼不好，现在下雨啊！所以我们不去玩哦。