User Comments - glosoli
glosoli
Posted on: Moving House and Chinese Wineries
November 18, 2008, 02:10 AMYunnan Red is my all time favorite! While I lived in Kunming me and my roomate used Yunnan Red as our table wine and it never turned me off (unlike other Chinese wines). I highly recommend it. Too bad I can't find it here in Hunan.
Posted on: Boston
April 23, 2009, 04:05 AMThank you for finally doing a show on the great city of Boston! As a proud native of Newton, Mass. (a city bordering Boston) I often speak about Boston in Chinese, but now I can listen to others do it! I even started studying Chinese in Boston's Chinatown when I was 15. Also, Mandarin is pretty common in Boston's small Chinatown, many residents are Taiwanese. In fact the Taiwanese National Day is a pretty big deal there, I've heard.
You guys did make one mistake. 哈佛大学 and 麻省理工 are of course not in Boston but rather on the other side of the Charles River in Cambridge. No worries though, I make the same mistake when I talk about Boston here in Hunan. Explaining that Harvard and M.I.T. are in a city next to Boston just seems too complicated (I do the same thing when I talk about where I'm from).
波士顿肯定是最好的地方！波士顿红袜队万岁！
@luobinzhenmei I've always heard Massachusetts referred to as 麻省 (I used to add a 州 to the end of that, but now I know better)。 麻州 is also a common name, though I always thought of it as something of an acronym like MA. Wenlin gives 马萨诸塞 as another alternative. Too many names!
John, go visit your sister and see the greatness of Boston.