User Comments - koon

Posted on: Saying Goodbye at the Airport

Hi John,

Thanks a lot for those answers and for replying promptly!!

Posted on: Saying Goodbye at the Airport

I have a couple of questions. Would it be wrong if I said "Wo3 da3dian4hua4 gei3 ni3", instead of "wo3 gei3 ni3 da3dian4hua4"  ?

I noticed in the dialogue transcript that for the words 回去 and 行李， the tones of the second characters are dropped. Do all people in China pronounce these words as hui2qu and xing2li , or are there some people who actually prounounce them as hui2qu4 and xing2li3  ? I've heard that in Beijing, tones get dropped very frequently. Do people in Shanghai also say them that way, or is it just written that way in the transcript because the Beijing accent is the most "standard"

Posted on: The Red Spectrum of Meaning

changye, the link you posted doesn't go directly to whatever thread you were refering to. It just goes to the general coversations page

Posted on: The Red Spectrum of Meaning

hahaha :)

Posted on: The Red Spectrum of Meaning

:)

Posted on: The Red Spectrum of Meaning

quasifrog, you misspelled "color" twice. "Collar" is the neckline of a shirt. Don't forget English as you learn Chinese!　

Posted on: The Red Spectrum of Meaning

this was a good idea for a Chinese lesson. It was short though ; a lot more could have been mentioned 

Posted on: The Red Spectrum of Meaning

I don't know why the heck we call it "black tea" in English. The color is definitely not a black shade.

Posted on: Visiting a Friend's Room

I noticed both in the dialogue and by listening to Jenny during the lesson that in the sentence “有一位小姐要见您”，it sounds a whole lot like when the characters jiàn and nín come back to back, the "n" in jiàn or the first "n" in nín gets dropped. Bascially, when those two characters are read after one another, it sounds something like "jie nin"。 I'm wondering if this is a rule, or just a coincidence that they both read it this way, or if it could be something else. I'm really curious about this~~

Posted on: Visiting a Friend's Room

does the tone for "yao1"/ (一） ever change, like the way 一个， 第一， and 一百 all have different tones?