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Posted on: To Bow or Not to Bow
August 16, 2007 at 3:47 PMｉｎ 躬， 身 ｉｓ ｔｈｅ ｒａｄｉｃａｌ (classifies the character) and 弓 is the phonetic (also a pictogram in this case) as with 躲 hide (duǒ) or 躺 (tǎng) to lie down - am I speaking out of turns here?
Posted on: Post-Graduation Plans
August 16, 2007 at 3:01 PMYes John thx, just missing 本科生 běnkēshēng，undergraduate student right？
Posted on: Old School Toys
August 16, 2007 at 9:12 AMhopscotch = 跳房子 tiào fángzi (talking to myself :-) another thing I saw when I was in 郑州 last year is people playing tops 陀螺 tuóluó with whips, 鞭子 biānzi though I guess they were more likely to be grown ups. There's also diabolos 空竹 kōngzhú of which they had asymetrical versions, but as with juggling (耍把戏 shuǎ bǎxì ?) it's not games most kids play. I guess kites 风筝 fēngzheng have become a high-tech thing but it's difficult for me not to associate kites with China for some reason
Posted on: Old School Toys
August 16, 2007 at 8:22 AMoops, hopscotch
Posted on: Old School Toys
August 16, 2007 at 8:14 AMhow to you say 'hopsotch' (marelle in French)
Posted on: Global Warming
August 15, 2007 at 9:02 PMI knew 绕口令 (ràokǒulìng /tongue twister) as a noun, I guess 绕口 is the corresponding verb. The 绕口 in this lesson are new 标语 (biāoyǔ) slogans, is there another word for 'buzzword' as 口号 (kǒuhào)?
Posted on: Post-Graduation Plans
August 15, 2007 at 3:26 PMfor 学位 Wenlin has 她有博士学位 (she has a doctorate degree) and 她有三个硕士学位 (she has three M.A. degrees), so having a degree as opposed to studying to one
Posted on: Post-Graduation Plans
August 15, 2007 at 1:15 PM博士生 PhD student / bóshìshēng, so I guess studying for a Master's degree is 硕士生 shuòshìshēng?
Posted on: 自闭症
August 15, 2007 at 11:55 AM“自闭”是个斐然的比喻!
Posted on: Chinese Identity
August 16, 2007 at 8:13 PM法国新的政府建立了国民认同部门，但这个国民认同部长的目的到底是什么,对外国移民有什么情绪呢?