User Comments - wildyaks
wildyaks
Posted on: Don't Leave
September 29, 2007 at 1:17 AMA new word for me too. And I lived here over six years. But probably I just did not pay attention. And haven't been very lonely... Although that's changed a little since I moved to the country side
Posted on: Getting Reimbursed
September 28, 2007 at 9:01 AMWouldn't you say 让我看看钱?
Posted on: Don't Leave
September 28, 2007 at 8:57 AMYeah, just for practicing purposes I told one of my local friends 我很寂寞. His reaction was really cute...
Posted on: Accents and Subway Survival
September 28, 2007 at 5:01 AMDoes the majority of the Chinese popultation live in cities? And - do all major cities now have an underground/subway? In Chengdu it should be ready next year. In many of the other cities that I frequent (all in the west) there are none yet.... I am not quite sure about that statement "a subject very near and dear to every China-dweller's heart--subway survival"... But of course we all know the problem of a no-queueing-culture. I have to watch myself when I go back to the my home country, because I have learnt to do it "the Chinese way"...
Posted on: Godzilla in Shanghai
September 28, 2007 at 4:27 AMHas never happened to me, Thank God! Maybe in the Southwest he does not figure as the bench mark for Chinese speakers.
Posted on: Don't Leave
September 28, 2007 at 4:20 AMWhen you check posts every 10 minutes, when you check more than once a day if a new lesson came out, when you can't sleep without listening to Dear Amber before going to bed... when... then.... oh well... cults...
Posted on: Don't Leave
September 28, 2007 at 2:43 AMThat lesson introduction is just great! I've read it to my friend just know who has come to visit me for a few days. AND has been amazed about how many clues from our converstations made me think of something I learnt at Cpod or heard mentioned in one of the posts... She's already started to make jokes about the "cult" I joined...
Posted on: Getting Reimbursed
September 28, 2007 at 2:38 AMI liked Kyle's explanation of the 把 construction. Do others agree with it? Is it a correct one?
Posted on: Getting Reimbursed
September 27, 2007 at 9:49 AMDon't you just get a 收据 from a receipt book that you can buy in any stationary shop? That won't always do if you want to 报销, especially not in China.
Posted on: Accents and Subway Survival
September 29, 2007 at 11:28 AMMaybe the chinese "t" is a soft aspirated "t". It is not quite as strong as the German t, nor as unaspirated as the French t. Somewhere in the middle? This is a funny thing. I never thought about it. In my language/dialect the "t" is unaspirated, yet slightly different from a "d". And I have problems with some of the Chinese "t" sounds, I guess mostly in combination with "-ian"