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siyi
Posted on: Shopping in China
May 29, 2011, 06:25 PMIn 1975, I shopped at the 友谊商店 in Beijing. The clerk asked me which national minority I was, as I spoke Mandarin, was dressed in a blue padded jacket I had bought to ward off the Beijing March cold, hair in braids, but blue eyes!!
Posted on: One-Way Street Scuffle
November 12, 2010, 01:49 AMDoes 车让人mean car yields or is yeilded to?
And what the heck can 车让车 mean?
Posted on: One-Way Street Scuffle
November 12, 2010, 01:29 AMIs there a difference of tense or meaning between
你每张眼睛吗?
你不张眼睛。
思怡
Posted on: A Stroll through the Hutongs
October 01, 2010, 07:00 PMI just returned from 3 weeks speaking French, which I learned when I was a kid in school. Every time I opened my mouth to speak, Chinese jumped into my brain, turning me into a stumbling idiot. I kept switching pronouns, saying ta 他 intead of tu/you, and ni 你 instead of nous/we, leaving whoever I was talking with mystified.
Nice to get this lesson today. I understood the dialogue easily and naturally on the first reading. Feels great after weeks of struggling to understand.
You've stirred memory of the Beijing hutongs in 1975 and again in 2006 when I went to see the former home of my language partners family who were moved to a tower apartment near the 4th ring road. I did not rent a 三论车， but did visit a six squatter.
Thanks.
Posted on: Smelly Cheese
July 29, 2010, 01:10 AMIn Yunnan we ate a fried goat cheese made by the Bai people of Dali. It is called 乳饼 rǔbǐng.
It's Bai name is youdbap, meaning goat's milk.
From Wikipedia:
It is made by mixing heated goat's milk and a souring agent, traditionally a mixture called năiténg (奶藤; lit. 'milk cane') made from a cultivated vine.It is often served pan fried, and dipped in salt, sugar, or mala powder. It may also be stir fried with vegetables in place of tofu. Much like paneer or queso blanco it is an unaged, acid-set, non-melting farmer cheese, but with the aroma of fresh goat's milk.
Thinking of Yunnan, a wonderful part of China,
莫思怡
Posted on: Mother's Day
May 06, 2010, 12:24 PM我两个孩子小的时候母亲节给我做早饭。现在他们不在家。我想他们。
Posted on: Female takeover of ChinesePod!
March 23, 2010, 06:28 PMWill the grammar guide be available to non-premium, basic subscribers?
I enjoyed meeting with Jenny and seeing the home of CPod on a beautiful October day last year.
下一次在见。
Your fellow female language geek,
思怡
Posted on: Saying Goodbye at the Airport
March 01, 2010, 07:40 PMI think of 平安 as smooth, 一路平安，as an even flat, calm road for your journey, without mishaps...no potholes!
Posted on: Red Chinese Music
November 23, 2011, 12:57 AMI was hoping in this lesson to hear songs from when I was in China in 1975.
There is great persistance of vocabulary memory through songs.
I can still sing parts of these favorites:
我们的朋友遍天下http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTc1MjEyMTQ4.html
国际歌
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internationale_in_Chinese
我爱北京天按门
Cartoon version: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTk1OTA4Mjg=.html
Rock and Roll version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOrgBW_ETgQ
东方红 DongFangHong The East is Red
东方红，太阳升，
中国出了个毛泽东。
他为人民谋幸福，
呼尔嗨哟，他是人民大救星！
毛主席，爱人民，
他是我们的带路人，
为了建设新中国，
呼尔嗨哟，领导我们向前进！
共产党，像太阳，
照到哪里哪里亮。
哪里有了共产党，
呼尔嗨哟，哪里人民得解放！