User Comments - jen_not_jenny
jen_not_jenny
Posted on: Considering an iPad
November 10, 2010 at 3:03 AM(and talking about it constantly ever since!)
Just kidding, John....:D
Posted on: Losing and Forgetting
November 10, 2010 at 1:33 AMHaha, whoops! Thanks for pointing this out, guys! My (minimal) studies of Cantonese never extended to the naughty words. No more joking around with 丢, though!
Posted on: Dancing in Public
November 10, 2010 at 1:25 AMMore piercing, yes...but you can't possibly match a Cantonese grandma for sheer gusto and lung power, IMO.
Posted on: Dancing in Public
November 10, 2010 at 1:20 AM哈哈哈！I would have loved to have seen your antics in ZhengZhou! Priceless.
Posted on: Dancing in Public
November 10, 2010 at 1:19 AMWell, if you bring her to China, now you know where to go!
Posted on: Dancing in Public
November 8, 2010 at 9:52 AMCan't nobody yell like a Cantonese 婆婆...
Posted on: Dancing in Public
November 8, 2010 at 9:50 AMIn the mid- to late-90s, swing dancing and a few types of ballroom dancing experienced a serious comeback in the States. I attended several dances/dance classes taught by some elderly folks with some pretty smooth moves! These were mostly held in community centers and other public buildings...not parks! Too cold out, I guess...and the whole privacy issue, too!
Did anybody else out there get into big band music at that time?
Posted on: Dancing in Public
November 8, 2010 at 6:04 AMThis is indeed one of the coolest things about China. My favorite is when several different dancing groups arrive with their portable sound systems at one really large open space and competing for the loudest music/ the best moves/ the largest crowd of hip-gyrating septuagenarians.
Posted on: Using 除了。。。以外 (Chúle... Yǐwài)
November 8, 2010 at 2:13 AMYes! A language learner after my own heart! GO Grammar!
I hear what people are saying when they bring up the fact that children absorb grammar, rather than studying it. Of course listening to as much high-frequency target language material as possible is necessary when learning to speak a new language, and ChinesePod is based upon this premise. That being said, when we learn a language as adults our rational thinking skills are far more developed than they were when we were children. Grammar, the framework of a language, provides a platform from which we can reason and attempt to construct our thoughts into some semblance of intelligent communication in the target language. We've lost so much of our capacity to absorb information as adults, that we've got to take advantage of every other cerebral weapon at our disposal, in my opinion!
Posted on: Job Shopping in Modern China
November 11, 2010 at 2:59 AMHi eupnea....
If we're being grammatically correct, "we who were born in the 80's is best." Zhenlijiang's submission is also perfectly correct, and "us born in the 80's" is not really 100% correct from a grammatical standpoint, but certainly in common use in spoken language.
-Jen from EPod