User Comments - jiarenlun
jiarenlun
Posted on: Buying Sandals
July 11, 2010, 05:50 PMI agree! John sounded like Da Shan when he said "duo1"! Awesome.
Posted on: Check Your Spam
July 03, 2010, 10:38 PMTeachers, thanks for breaking down wo3 gang1 gang1 gei3 ni3 faa le ge you2 jian4... very helpful! :^)
Posted on: Hot and Cool 热, 烫 , 凉 , 冷
May 17, 2009, 02:36 PMI often hear the word 暖和 (nuan3 huo2) from people referring to the weather... "nice and warm" or "pleasant"...
Posted on: Guilin Mifen
April 14, 2009, 03:01 PMGreat video! And if its a take-out menu, it's not stealing. I must have 30 of them from Oakland Chinatown and the Bay Area... :^)
Posted on: The Final Show
January 10, 2009, 06:08 AMThanks for the the help and inspiration, Amber!
Posted on: The Person Component
December 18, 2008, 07:34 PMWow, over a hundred posts so far must be a lot of interest in radicals...
I like to use this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kangxi_radicals
There are 214 radicals on this list, which includes the Kangxi number (1-214), character, variant forms (really interesting!) as John pointed out for the character 人 (ie. 亻) and including simplified v. traditional variants, pinyin, English meaning, and example characters containing the radical.
I've used it by writing it all out once, printing it out, and continuing to refer to it. I feel that learning the radicals helps me modularize the writing and memorization of characters themselves ie. its pretty cool.
jiarenlun
Posted on: Table for Three
December 07, 2008, 05:28 PM
Hi Calkins,
There is actually a distinction made between “time when” and duration. I borrowed these examples from “Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar, A Practical Guide”, by Ross/Sheng Ma, an excellent book.
1. Time phrases that indicate the duration of a situation always come after the verb, for example:
我学了两个小时了。Wo3 xue2 le liang3 ge4 xiao3 shi2 le. I studied for two hours.
2. Time phrases that indicate the time when a situation occurs always come before the verb, for example:
我昨天学了中文。 Wo3 zuo2 tian1 xue2 le zhong1 wen2. I studied Chinese yesterday.
3. A sentence may include a “time when” phrase and a duration phrase:
我昨天学了两个小时。Wo3 zuo2 tian1 xue2 le liang3 ge4 xiao3 shi2. Yesterday I studied for 2 hours.
jiarenlun
Posted on: The Boy That Cried Wolf
October 11, 2008, 05:08 PMI liked this video alot, thanks! It had a lot in it and yet it was very engaging. I happily worked my way through it.
Greggs, regarding your question:
"can someone break down the sentence "Bei lang chi diao le? How does diao 掉 work in this sentance? My dictionary tells me 掉 is to fall or to drop. And Bei 被 is passive voice. "
Bei 被 is a passive construction that lets you put the object 狼 lang2 in front of the verb 吃掉 chi1diao4 in order to emphasize the object (wolf). 吃掉 chi1diao4 is a verb in itself (a word) meaning to "eat up"
Posted on: On Location at the Beijing 2008 Olympics
August 25, 2008, 05:32 PMThanks for the transcript Amber!
Posted on: Separable Verbs
July 31, 2010, 10:46 PMI imagine 睡一觉 (shui yi jiao), which I think means "sleep a little", fits into the 过，了，着 (guo, le, zhe) category?