User Comments - snozzle
snozzle
Posted on: A Visitor and Progress Tracking
November 08, 2010, 02:55 AMOh I would like to sign up for the progress beta please :)
Also nice to hear that other people find it a big step up from Elementary to Intermediate, makes me think it is possible! :)
Posted on: Beards Are for Old Men
April 19, 2010, 09:18 PMThat first sentence: 你要去约会吗?
I realise this is just me as I often get confused with 'yao要' and it's 100 meanings, but that sentence sounds like (well initially translated in my head) as 'Do you want to go on a date?'
I suppose if you used 想 instead that would be more of an invitation?
Just trying to avoid any more awkward moments.. but I suppose that is half the fun of learning a language :)
Posted on: Rise and Shine!
April 16, 2009, 07:05 AMHey Pete,
Thanks for that, though if I can ask another question with hopefully not getting too side tracked.
One case I can't make too much sense of with 上 is this e.g.
中国是世界上人口最多的国家.
Please explain what business Mr Shang has in that sentence! Why not 有 in that case?
thanks
Posted on: Rise and Shine!
April 16, 2009, 06:38 AMI'm intrigued about the phrase '上床'. It doesn't make sense to me, isn't 上 normally to rise, or get up? Why in this case does it mean the opposite?
I'm still only ele level, but I find 上 always pops up in weird places with yet another new meaning! :P
Posted on: Marriage and Divorce
October 18, 2011, 07:54 PMThanks for the lesson, was interested to hear the discussion at the end, as that seems to be a pretty similar theme from most Chinese I have talked to.
I've recently got engaged, but it has been a long road, and a lot of reassurance needed for my fiance's parents, as I regularly get told that 'all westerners (we're all the same btw!) get divorced, but Chinese never get divorced' etc.
I haven't spent too much time actually in China, but does anyone have comments on what it's actually like there? I 听说 that a lot of families just live apart, in different cities etc rather than formally getting divorced? Isn't that effectivly the same thing, just with less 'losing face'?