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meihuar2006
Posted on: Looking for a Parking Space
May 16, 2012 at 3:42 AMIsn't 停車場 like a parking lot / carpark whereas 车位 is a parking space?
停車場有多车位。 车位只有一俩汽车。
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Posted on: Turn It Down, Please
May 2, 2012 at 2:18 AM北京人还说《开门》像《开门儿》。。。 太麻烦！
Posted on: Turn It Down, Please
May 1, 2012 at 2:13 AMI missed one of the exercise questions:
Wrote: 麻烦重一点儿。
Correct Answer: 麻烦重一点。
Are 一点儿 and 一点 the same? I get confused by what is standard writing, what is regional dialect, and what are subtle grammatical differences.
Also:
我们应该上班在一点(yidian)。 麻烦快穿一点(yidian'r)！
-Tim
Posted on: Turn It Down, Please
May 1, 2012 at 1:51 AM我爱京剧！
Where are all these Beijing Opera Enthusiast cab drivers when I need them? Mine all listen to comedy shows.
Posted on: Big Numbers
February 27, 2012 at 12:11 PMHi Andy
Thank you for introducing me to the concept of long and short scale! I'm a software engineers, and I never thought of it this way, but we also have our own counting system (that I infer derives from the "short scale" using metric names--
killo- (thousand, 3 zeros)
mega- (million, 6 zeros),
giga- (billion, 9 zeros),
tera- (trillion, 12 zeros)
I suppose "giga-" is standard (9 zeros) in both long & short scale countries.
It is interesting that the Chinese-system uses 10,000 as a base counting unit. The Greeks equated 10,000 (myriad) with an "uncountably huge" number. I wonder if 10,000 had that connotation originally in China?
Posted on: A Tour of the Chinese Underworld (Part One)
February 26, 2012 at 7:55 PMDoes this relate to Daoist underworld or Buddhist underworld (or is there a difference)? In Beijing, there is Dongyue Temple (东岳庙), which has an altar for each bureau of hell and plaster statues of the gods and devils who administer that bureau. Does that vision of hell relate to the one discussed here?
Posted on: Spending Money in Hong Kong
February 6, 2012 at 4:45 PM麻烦你们，would you mind correcting my Chinese?
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我访问过香港在1999。我在那里住了两个星期。 从香港，我去广东游览过三天。 在肇庆市我度过二晚。 当时，在夜里肇庆很黑暗的。 很少几个灯。现今肇庆多光明的吗？
(English: I visited Hong Kong in 1999. I stayed there two weeks. From Hong Kong, I took a tour of Guangdong for three days. At Zhaoqing, I spent two nights. Back then, Zhaoqing was very dark at night. Very few lihts. Nowadays is Zhaoqing brighter?)
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Zhaoqing was the first mainland city I ever visited (I've since been all over the Mainland, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, et cetera). But I am still sentimental about Zhaoqing. I wonder if anyone has been there recently? In 13 years, I know a lot changes! It is a resort town, home of Seven Star Crag （七星岩).
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Language notes:
I get confused about whether dates should appear at the beginning or end of a sentence. In Korean, dates always come at the beginning.
我访问过香港在1999。
在1999我访问过香港。
Are the above both grammatically correct?
Also, does Chinese have a grammatical pattern:
"Except for beer, I do not drink" == I only drink beer.
This is common grammar pattern in Korean (maekju bakk-e an-mashioyo). But, Chinese follows similar pattern as English?
我只喜欢喝啤酒。
Not
除了啤酒我不喜欢喝酒。
Posted on: Boxing Day
December 28, 2011 at 2:05 PMSorry for the late question!
拳击 means "boxing" as in the fist-fighting sport？
I had expected "Boxing Day" to translate as "put in box day" 装箱节
To add to "Boxing / Boxer" confusion, maybe we should call it 《义和团节〉
Posted on: Getting an Official Receipt
December 28, 2011 at 1:47 PMThe company I work for is similar. I found this lesson very interesting because I had presumed that our Chinese subsidiary demanded the fa-piao because it didn't trust its staff. Now I realize that the government likely mandates that our subsidiary obtain fa-piao to help enforce sales tax collection.
But, yes, submitting my Chinese receipts to my American-based travel accounting was amusing. I circled the cost in RMB, provided a dollar conversion and explained the nature of the receipt.
Posted on: The New Intern
June 24, 2012 at 2:34 PMI have no expertise in this matter, but I am guessing that the characters are the "commonly used phonetic characters". As with Starbucks 《星期吧克》, I don't believe the Ba-Ke at the end has any character meaning, just those two characters have become commonly-used for those foreign sounds.
Besides, 卖课 reads "selling class" which sounds silly for a name!