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klgardensong
Posted on: The 又...又 (Yòu...Yòu) Episode
January 22, 2008 at 10:05 PM這門課很好玩！語言又豐富態度又幽默。可以這樣說嗎？ Zhè mén kè hěn hǎowán. Yǔyán yòu fēngfù tàidu yòu yōumò. Kěyǐ zhè yàng shuō ma? Kathy
Posted on: Pedestrian Peril
January 21, 2008 at 9:54 PMDisambiguate--I love it! I guess my ear has always been better than my eye--my struggle is relearning characters. I just have to muster the discipline to work on them every day. On that note, I keep trying to get the lesson pdfs in traditional characters--even installed Foxfire. But I'm still at a loss. Any thoughts? Ketangli, are you in Rochester, NY? If so, and you're ever heading down to NYC, let me know. I'm just 10 minutes off Route 17, about 3/4 of the way down. Kathy
Posted on: #32
January 17, 2008 at 10:08 PMWow! I was completely off. I must say I don't like this movie nearly as much as the one I thought it was. Oh well, we're on to MM 33. Kathy
Posted on: Bumming a Smoke
January 15, 2008 at 1:11 AMI love the "smoke and mirrors" mnemonic - thanks! K.
Posted on: Bumming a Smoke
January 15, 2008 at 12:10 AMMy aversion to cigarette smoke has nothing to do with being PC and everything to do with personal preference. Since I was a kid cigarette smoke has given me a headache and make my eyes and lungs hurt. All the smoking was definitely the single worst thing for me when I lived in China - especially on long train rides when there was no escaping it. That said, I always wanted a Marlene Dietrich kind of husky voice... I've heard there are now non-smoking cars on Chinese trains (haven't been on one since the 1980s). Is this true? Thanks bingge for the flashback to Donald Duck! Kathy
Posted on: #32
January 14, 2008 at 10:26 PMThanks, xiaohu. So if I go to Chinatown in NYC, I should definitely be able to find DVDs, right? I don't even know what toggling the subtitles means, so I probably won't miss it (mind it?). Thanks again! K.
Posted on: #32
January 14, 2008 at 2:26 PMFun, fun, fun! I've just figured out how to join in this conversation, and it's a movie I know!! Now I'm inspired to see it again. Movie Madness is such a great idea - thank you. Thanks, too, xiaohu for sharing your favorite family-friendly Chinese movies - I was going to ask for just such a list. Also, does anyone have tips how we here in American can get American movies dubbed into Chinese. (Sorry if this is a really basic question - I'm pretty techno-impaired). Kathy
Posted on: Extreme Chinese - 不得了 (bùdéliǎo)
January 14, 2008 at 2:09 PMFun conversation and review. 謝謝！
Posted on: Lost Cell Phone
January 11, 2008 at 2:45 PMGreat lesson, very useful. I haven't lost a cell phone yet, but did have one stolen. I'm still in recovery! As far as a translation for 旧的不去，新的不来, it seems to me the meaning is more along the lines of "one door must close before another opens". While this is not a set phrase like "out with the old, in with the new", it might come closer to the sense that you have to let something go or close a door to allow space for new things to come.
Posted on: Pedestrian Peril
January 22, 2008 at 10:24 PMtvan and fudapeng, Thanks for your help - but I still need more! I have a Mac but not yet Leopard, that will be a fun feature when I can afford to upgrade. (Does it work with pdfs, though, or just with characters you're writing yourself?) So, I guess the problem is that I've adjusted the settings for my "feed" but I don't know what my "aggregator" is or how I get there. The podcasts come to me from iTunes, but I've never seen pdfs. Sorry to be so hopelessly clueless. (BTW, I do have the premium plan) Many thanks for any additional help! Kathy