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Posted on: I Changed My Mind
February 13, 2014 at 7:45 AMShe said that ma3jia2 was wrong. I generally trust her view on such things. She is from Beijing.
Posted on: I Changed My Mind
February 10, 2014 at 4:47 PMok I have asked my Chinese friend who says that is indeed sounds like ma3jia2!
Posted on: I Changed My Mind
February 10, 2014 at 6:14 AMI just listened to the audio in the vocab section. It sounds like ma2jia2 to me!
Posted on: The Paper Chase
February 8, 2014 at 8:22 PMWhere on earth have you been? Chinese husbands doing the cooking????
Surely their wives banish them from the kitchen...
Posted on: Syllables and Verbs
February 8, 2014 at 2:46 AMI found this potentially an interesting topic but found myself disappointed by the lesson content which didn't treat the subject as I had expected and seemed rather superficial
At the end it did briefly mention one and two syllabic forms with the same meaning but virtually ducked the question of usage just invoking formal and informal contexts. Are there not however times when the choice of one or two syllables is based on balance - two syllable verbs often go with two syllable objects for example and sometime one syllable verbs go with one syllable objects. What about the use of 帮 帮忙 or 知道 知 and better examples that I could think of?
Also strangely in the middle of the lesson phrases like 去学校 were somehow treated as verbs rather than verb objects. What I expected was a treatment of 'verbs' like 排队 睡觉 which look like single verbs but actually can be split up 排很长的队。
I would be surprised if the lesson satisfied the requester.
Posted on: Labor Dispute
February 8, 2014 at 1:15 AMSorry - I think it is just you
Posted on: Labor Dispute
February 7, 2014 at 4:40 PMI see John, Jenny, Connie ....
Posted on: Regional Variations on Helpfulness
February 6, 2014 at 8:42 AMClearly the translation is wrong. I would translate it as "If you want to do something then don't hesitate and go ahead and do it" ...
Posted on: The Paper Chase
February 6, 2014 at 7:15 AMThe lazy husband that does no housework and eats junk food the nagging wife who cleans up and does all the cooking .... At least the guy went shopping with her instead of propping up a bar. Good old Chinese traditional culture.
I was surprised to learn that Americans don't carry paper hankerchiefs (手帕纸). We do have them in England but not because public toilets don't have paper, but just simply to blow your nose!
Posted on: I Changed My Mind
February 13, 2014 at 7:48 AMActually I could add that my friend is generally somewhat intolerant of language diversity and is, for example, critical of the /n/ instead of /ng/ 'debate' that goes on here from time to time, although she was born in Shanghai and even remembers some Shanghaihua.