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suxiaoya
Posted on: Terrorized at the Airport
January 20, 2009 at 5:36 AMlujiaojie
Thanks so much for your helpful examples :-)
I am just wondering why we don't use 把 ba3 in front of this sentence:
包放在上面 bao fang zai shangmian
or other 'topic, comment' phrases that John mentioned. What's the difference? Sorry if I'm just being slow to understand this!
Posted on: Farewell, Son 游子吟
January 20, 2009 at 5:22 AMPete, I really enjoyed both versions of this!
Perhaps you could share with us some of the sources you used for your research? Some further reading would be great.
By the way, I think that Baker St song will stick in my head all afternoon, and well into Obama's speech tonight!
Posted on: Terrorized at the Airport
January 19, 2009 at 2:16 PMJohn, thanks for the useful explanation of 'topic, comment' phrases.
I just wonder where 把 ba3 fits into all this? Where/why would you choose to use it?
I understood that it would be used to link the noun/topic with the verb/comment, as below:
你把声音开大一点
ni ba shengyin kai da yidianr.
Do you have to use ba here?
Posted on: Happiness Candy
January 13, 2009 at 1:41 PMI remember hearing once a male Chinese colleague, who had recently started seeing a girl, being gently teased with the question:
我们什麼时候能吃你的喜糖
women shenme shihou neng chi nide xitang?
I thought it was quite a sweet way to ask how well it was going between them. Of course, he insisted that he'd not be handing out wedding candy for a long time!
Posted on: Happiness Candy
January 13, 2009 at 1:40 PMI remember hearing once a male Chinese colleague, who had recently started seeing a girl, being gently teased with the question:
我们什麼时候能吃你的喜糖
women shenme shihou neng chi nide xitang?
I thought it was quite a sweet way to ask how well it was going between them. Of course, he insisted that he'd not be handing out wedding candy for a long time!
Posted on: Late December News
December 28, 2008 at 1:19 PMI have just started using Twitter very recently and think it has the potential to be super useful.
For example, should you ever have a question, you can get immediate answers from your 'followers' (depending on who is following you, of course).
It speeds everything up - and that's seldom a bad thing when it comes to the sharing of information. Learning Chinese as part of a real-time ChinesePod community is the obvious way we could benefit, I guess...
@suxiaoya
Posted on: Surviving Winter and Singles Scene for Expat Girls
December 14, 2008 at 6:33 AMI'm a western female and one of my best friends here in Shanghai is an American-born Chinese guy.When we're out together, I'm often aware that people (both local Chinese and foreigners) stare at us. It's just not common to see, as Amber said.
In fact, a western guy recently said some horrid things to us when we were out together. Sooo narrow-minded.
Posted on: Lessons and Christmas News
December 1, 2008 at 3:07 AMYou can check out more about the new Digital lesson pack here.
Posted on: Terrorized at the Airport
January 21, 2009 at 1:34 AMOK, that's clearer. Thanks very much, Jiaojie and John!