User Comments - sammypaika09

Posted on: Fire in the Hallway!

oh my god, seriously an awful explanation. this is chinese, not math, so why do you keeping using math symbols? My question is really clear and I wrote it twice. unfortunatly all you were able to give me is chinese formulas

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Posted on: Fire in the Hallway!

Hi Crystal,

Thanks, but I still don't understand. As you said, "sidewalk" is:

人+行+道= people+walk+road.

Then why isn't "pedestrian" 人+行people+walk ??

It doens't make sense that one words is 行+人 and the other word is 人+行

Posted on: Fire in the Hallway!

I wonder why so many English signs in Asia are written so rediculouly. I would imagine that if people are going to display a sign written in a foreign language that they would either make sure it's written properly or decide not to include the foreign language portion altogether from fear of looking stupid

Posted on: Fire in the Hallway!

there's something I don't understand: why is it that "pedestrian" is xingren(行人)， but "sidewalk" is renxingdao(人行道) ?

Wouldn't it make more sense if sidewalk was called xingrendao(行人道)instead? Can someone please explain this to me?

Posted on: Calling an Ambulance

hey xiaophil, Thanks for that idiom.

Posted on: Calling an Ambulance

there's only one "English country", and it's called Britain...okay, what the heck I'll just say it:"Great Britain".

Posted on: Calling an Ambulance

wow, "jiu" and "jiao" sound nothing alike to me. It seems to me that when Chinese people speak Chinese, it's widely accepted for people to misprounounce words of their own language. Like for example, "sh" sounds and "zh" sounds and especially when people speak fast(which is always) words get misprounounced a lot. In English speaking countries, this type of thing is unacceptable and anytime someone completely misprounounces something, others mention the mistake and correct it.

Posted on: Calling an Ambulance

Dear Chinese pod,

In the line where the male actor says 对叫救护车叫救护车 it sounds like he's saying jiu4 jiu4 hu4 che1, jiu4 jiu4 hu4 che1. Basically , it sounds like he's pronouncing 叫 as jiu4. Why, dare I ask？

Posted on: Calling an Ambulance

cool Mandarin lesson, there's just one thing I didn't like that much: "...English countries". I have nothing but love for the Brits, but still

Posted on: Calling an Ambulance

Dear Chinese pod,

In the line where the male actor says 对叫救护车叫救护车 it sounds like he's saying jiu4 jiu4 hu4 che1, jiu4 jiu4 hu4 che1. Basically , it sounds like he's pronouncing 叫 as jiu4. Why, dare I ask？