User Comments - xuchen

Posted on: Dubai

I think the PDF is missing some lines of the dialogue..

Posted on: 小太监进宫二

I think 《疯狂英语》 is able to survive because many people in China ARE crazy about for English.

说实在的，我早知道学生对于学英语那么疯狂，我就要假装不会说英语。

Posted on: Juiced!

我经常买奶茶，奶茶有很多不同的味道，包括水果！我本来喜欢喝木瓜奶茶，但每次买木瓜奶茶的时候 服务员就冲着我笑！我曾经问过他们，“你为什么笑？”，他们很不好意思的回答， “因为木瓜会使你的胸变大！只有女孩喜欢喝啊！”

至今我不敢回去那个小奶茶店。。

I often buy milk tea, milk tea has many different flavours including fruit flavours. I originally liked drinking mu gua milk  tea. However, every time I bought it the milk tea sever would laugh at me. So once I asked them "Why are you laughing?". They were very embarassed to reply but said "because mu gua can make your breasts bigger, only girls like to drink it!!"

To this day I'm not brave enough to go back to that tea shop..

请大家帮我修改上面的中文。而且如果你知道木瓜如何翻译成英语请你就在这儿留言吧！！

Posted on: Hot Pot

Many hotpot restuarants use the menu as a bill aswell, you write on the menu and at the end they use it to calculate your tab. If you steal this menu it isn't uncommon for the waiters to have to pay a fine for losing it. In some cases up to a few hundred yuan each.

Be an informed theif please!!

Posted on: Who are You Looking For?

@wwaipoo

I've heard learning a language through another language is a great way to learn the first one that you are studying but perhaps not so efficient when it comes to learning both!

Good luck and be sure to write more in English! I had to use googletranslate to understand your post!!

haha!

Posted on: Why are You Studying Chinese?

@matt_c

看样子你肚子和中国菜很有缘分，你只是顺便学汉语了！！哈哈

Posted on: Why are You Studying Chinese?

@masumada

I think your experiences ring true for many travelers and people studying Chinese, although China is developing quickly and entering the world stage at an alarming pace it still shows parts of the country being left behind.

My recommendation to anyone feeling "interogated" is to not take it personaly, Chinese people are usually just very curious and like to ask lots of personal questions. If I was a poor rural farmer I would find it quite stange that people with money, jobs and "power" would want to come all this way just to see how I was living my life. Besides, it's a great chance to partice your Chinese, I always turn the conversation on them and ask lots of questions!!

Posted on: Tea Tasting

@pete/all

we will be able to keep this sort of conversation mostly over there, as it is apparently not interesting to the majority of commenters.

Thanks, I was wondering how much longer this tit-for -tat he says, she says garbage trash rubbish was going to go on for.  I'd love to hear what you'd have to say on translation, it's clearly a deep sea of challenges and thought provoking ideas but I have no interest in hearing the difference between bug and insect. If any English speaker saw/heard that in a movie they would understand. I don't think you're putting people out by writing based on context, like I mentioned and I'm sure you'd atest to, Chinese just doesn't translate that well into English. It's different, so if you don't understand something consider doing some more studying.

I'd also like to note that this discussion with it's long threads seems to be slowly killing the great tea conversation that was trying to be heard.

I know I was dissapointed when I logged on today.

Posted on: Tea Tasting

我本来也以为工夫茶是功夫茶，但我在维基百科上查了好几次。只能找到工夫茶。

我喝茶时总注意营养，茶本来对你身体就有帮助，有益健康。可是泡茶的时候可以用一些方法使茶更具有营养。例如加上一把枸杞子。

我正在喝一杯枸杞子，真好喝！！

Posted on: Tea Tasting

要不你们研究工夫茶一下，但你可不要混淆功夫和工夫。