User Comments - ryanchild
ryanchild
Posted on: Jewish Holiday
September 18, 2009 at 12:41 AMhow does one eat apples WHILE dipping them in honey? sounds messy.
要先沾蜂蜜在吃蘋果吧.
Posted on: Star Trek
September 9, 2009 at 4:06 AMAccording to the zh.Wikipedia entry, 星際迷航 seems to refer only to the latest Star Trek movie specifically.
I believe it says the Star Trek series in China is known as 星際旅行 but was released in Taiwan as 星艦奇航記. But I just happened to catch someone from Taiwan tweeting about "星艦迷航" ...maybe that's the Taiwanese title of the latest movie?
Ah well, I can't keep the different movies and tv shows straight in English either. Trekkies might want to take note, however, of the different translations out there.
Posted on: Love Tangle 2: A Lover Returns
September 1, 2009 at 11:25 PMThe traditional transcript PDF is missing characters all over the place. For example the last line reads "帥,你說了."
Maybe an error with the simplified-traditional character conversion?
Posted on: Hotels, Hostels and Restaurants
August 31, 2009 at 11:33 PMspotted this sign in taipei:
so add 旅社 to the list. i'm guessing this is similar to the 報社 that lujiaojie mentioned
Posted on: Dinosaurs
August 24, 2009 at 2:05 AMindeed 這節課成的音效很厲害!恭喜你門. did i hear a starcraft "door opening" clip near the beginning? :)
還有一個"親"的結構: "親身" ...比如說 "我親身經驗"
Posted on: Slow Dinosaurs
August 23, 2009 at 9:06 PMfor those in the states thinking about getting a tablet for use with skritter, Wacom has a $20 mail-in rebate for orders for small bamboo fun tablets through 8/31, which brings the price from $99 down to $65, with free shipping on amazon.com.
From what I've read this tablet is the best you can get for the relatively low price tag. Any owners care to comment?
Posted on: 把 Humbug
August 22, 2009 at 2:44 PMthanks for adding the PDF!
that said, i think there is an error: 車庫裏 should be 車庫裡 on the first page, right?
and i thought 上床 meant to make love not "go to bed"..?
Posted on: Grab Some Veggies From the Store
August 21, 2009 at 7:04 PMre "peanuts" in Taiwan, I'm pretty sure I've heard 花生, though 土豆 might be used as well. tw.dictionary.yahoo.com translates peanuts as 花生 and potato as 馬鈴薯 (mǎlíngshǔ)
Posted on: Pinyin Section 10
August 16, 2009 at 2:13 AMreally grasping the difference between j/q/x and zh/ch/sh was my first big hurdle learning chinese... i must have spent days or weeks trying to figure it out until i found this link: http://www.sinosplice.com/lang/pronunciation/03/ (which happened to be john's blog) on the chinesepod forum. everything clicked right after i read that.
i think it really takes a talented ear to be able to hear a foreign sound and be able to reproduce it flawlessly. i am not so gifted so the visual aids and concise explanation really jump-started my understanding of pinyin and Mandarin consonants.
Posted on: Two Tough Ladies
September 21, 2009 at 2:04 AMI hear girls say "nǐ hěn jiàn" to each other a lot, although I don't know the character for "jiàn"...