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goulnik
Posted on: New York City
October 25, 2007 at 11:19 AM世界上最大的中国城是哪座？ what's the world's largest Chinatown? Chinatown ： 中国城 （Zhōngguóchéng） Chinatown 座 zuò : measure word for cities
Posted on: New York City
October 25, 2007 at 11:14 AM》 纽约是世界上最棒的城市？ 不一定！
Posted on: All About Measure Words
October 25, 2007 at 10:59 AMWe actually have the same problem between French, German, Italian and a number of other languages whose 'articles' do not match (le/la das/der/die) and no simple rule prevails. There are many more in Chinese but I guess you won't use all that many on a daily basis. "How do Chinese look up a measure word for a noun? It's not in the dictionaries......" It *is* in some, Wenlin / PlecoDict / ABC do list them along with most nouns. When they don't, I guess 个 will do. I find this is much more useful than a separate list of measure words, one should simply learn measure word+noun as a unit from the outset. Listing nouns without their 数量词 (shùliàngcí) is like pinyin without tones. I would suggest CPod does this systematically in the vocab listings *and* dictionary.
Posted on: How many people are in your family?
October 25, 2007 at 9:25 AMIf Western countries are any indication, traditional family terms might be displaced by new ones due to increasing rates of 离婚 (líhūn) 再婚 (zàihūn), what in we call re-composed families around here, 再家 ？
Posted on: Fighting over the Bill
October 25, 2007 at 7:37 AMalso, I just noticed a typo in the transcript : 不行，这次我买定了… No, I'm definitely buying the time => this time
Posted on: Fighting over the Bill
October 25, 2007 at 7:28 AMat the very beginning of the dialog, we hear 吃得真饱。I seem to remember being told by a Chinese friend that 吃好了 was a more elegant way of saying I'm finished eating than 吃饱了。
Posted on: Two words for '2'
October 23, 2007 at 7:21 PMand 希拉里・克林顿 (Xīlālǐ Kèlíndùn) Hillary Clinton, 下任 (xiàrèn) next president ?
Posted on: Getting Reimbursed
October 23, 2007 at 4:11 PMVAT is always paid by the customer at the end of the ... value-chain : 加值税 (jiāzhíshuì) or 增值税 (zēngzhíshuì) where 税 shuì) is tax, duty. 增值税 is twice as prevalent according to Google
Posted on: Two words for '2'
October 23, 2007 at 4:35 AMJohn Adams ： 约翰·亚当斯 （Yuēhàn Yàdāngsī1）
Posted on: New York City
October 25, 2007 at 11:22 AMincidentally, the CPod dictionary has 唐人街 (Tángrénjiē) as Chinatown, but Google 谷歌 （gǔgē) returns 10 times more results with 中国城。