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Posted on: Food Poisoning
September 19, 2011 at 5:18 PMDiLu, in the lesson you were confused about what John was talking about regarding how we don't talk very openly about having diarrhea in the West. Well, for us it's considered a gross topic, and something sort of private, almost embarrassing... Consider a person saying casually to you, "我想去大便”， the reaction you would get to this is similar to what many Westerners would get if they openly talked about their 拉肚子。 Just a bit of cultural insight here.. :)
Posted on: Food Poisoning
September 19, 2011 at 5:13 PMThere was a point where you encouraged all listeners to carry around some antidiarrheal meds. if they plan to come visit China. After saying this, DiLu was a bit sensitive to this and replied, “什么意思”. I'll elaborate on this since you didn't really. @Dilu: Traveling is definitely hard on the GI tract. So, naturally when in a foreign land it's good to come prepared with various meds--this goes for traveling anywhere. But there is another reason why there is emphasis on bringing meds when traveling in China because of sanitary/hygienic issues. There is quite a difference in the level of hygienic standards of the West and China. One example: In China a lot of restaurants don't even have hand soap at the bathroom sink. This means that many people aren't really washing their hands after using the toilet---including the cooks that handle our food. Restaurants in the West could never get away with this...they'd be fined, or given a very low sanitary test score--possibly even closed down.
Posted on: Snoring Again
September 18, 2011 at 11:26 AMHi Joeborn:
You heard her correctly. Depending on what part of China you're in, you'll hear different ways of saying "very". For example， for "very good" you might here it said in a number of ways: 蛮好，挺好，真好，老好，贼好，太好， 等等。
Posted on: Car Crash
September 16, 2011 at 5:08 AMI used to wonder the same thing. Now I learned why you don't see many serious accidents here. Because, they know they have to drive slowly because the drivers here do whatever they want on the road here, well most of them (not all, I know some are courteous drivers), and if they try to drive quickly down the road, they will 100% surely have an accident. So, they have no choice but to drive slowly. This prevents accidents, but makes driving here a royal pain in the you know what---slow and chaotic.
Posted on: Car Crash
September 16, 2011 at 5:04 AMI have seen situations like this many times. The person who gets hit, or bumped, or nudged, will lay down on the street and really play it out. I was driving my motorbike in Jiangsu Province and was hit by a car making an illegal turn. I was knocked down and my buddy on the back was hurt. The car didn't stop, just slowed down so their child could look at us, and the little boy just pointed and shouted "Lao wai, lao wai!" and his parents drove away. I was livid, but there wasn't much I could do. The road/traffic situation here is CHAOS! And driving etiquette is not on the top of the priority list, to say the very least.
Posted on: Having Spare Keys Made
September 12, 2011 at 3:18 PMThanks Jenny... It's funny, I've been in China 3 years now and I never learned how to correctly say: 我被锁在屋子外了。
Posted on: Too Young to be Dating
August 20, 2011 at 7:52 AMIt took me a while to get used to hearing 就这样吧，我挂了啊。Also, the fact that oftentimes Chinese don't say "Goodbye" before hanging up took some getting used to.
Posted on: A Trip to Nanjing
September 20, 2011 at 10:56 AMHey Jason, this was my first time hearing you teach. Really learned a lot and enjoyed your great explanations. I have been to Nanjing a thousand times and have not yet tried any of these local specialties.
I live in a place much more 土 than Nanjing--a small city in Heilongjiang Province, ten hours north of Harbin!