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yaming8808
Posted on: Chinese New Year Fireworks
June 17, 2011 at 2:05 PMIt's pretty far down the road, auntie68, but hopefully you're still on the scene at Chinesepod. I'm asking you the following question because you
seem to have a very good idea about what's going on in Mandarin, to wit,
why is the same written character used for děi and de in the dialogue sentence "bùguò nǐ děi zhān de yuǎn yī diǎn" when the meanings are so
apparently different?
Posted on: Common Measure Words
June 16, 2011 at 4:44 PMHěn qíquài! Zài bǐjìběn lǐ 'běn' shì fānyì le 'book' bùguo tā de hànzì yòng yīyàng de hànzì liàngcí cóng "yī běn shū". Wèishénme bùyòng hànzì de shū wèi 'book'?
Posted on: Dealing with Praise
June 16, 2011 at 4:03 PM'Xiàng nǐ xǐngjiào' shì tīng le wèi 'xiàng nǐ qǐngjiào' zài shàng ge cí de 'supplementary vocabulary' lǐ.
Posted on: Common Measure Words
June 16, 2011 at 2:27 PMI just tried to delete the above comment after reading John's astute remarks just 2 comments further down this page, but for some reason it
wouldn't delete. Anyway, I advise anyone else to just scroll down and read
what John has to say as it answers very well the question raised here. It certainly cleared it up for me.
Posted on: Don't do that!
June 15, 2011 at 5:43 PMIt seems the next-to-last expansion is a bit redundant, but I guess this is the Chinese way of emphasizing the remark. I wonder if there is also an expression 'shòudeliǎo le' meaning to be able to stand or bear something. In that case, wouldn't it be better to say "tā méi yǒu shóudeliào le"? But am I out-of-bounds?
Posted on: Baijiu or Beer
June 15, 2011 at 1:39 PMIt would have been nice to have had an exchange in the lesson where
grain liquor is served mistakenly to the 'careful' drinker expecting to
get white wine. When he drinks, he can yell out "rè sǐ le!", or similar remark,
& dramatically spit out something. Then the difference in the drinks can be
explained to warn the unsuspecting student, who will be more apt to
remember the distinction in meanings so as to avoid a similar fiasco.
But I realize you all know this sort of pedagogical tip there at Chinesepod.
Just wish it had not been overlooked when devising this lesson.
Posted on: Office Policy: Internet
June 14, 2011 at 2:13 PMZhè shì zhēn 'intermediate' dōngxi! Yǐqiàn xuéxí zhè ge, tā de 'vocabulary' nǐ yīnggāi xiān zhīdào hěn hǎo.
Posted on: Help with Housework
June 17, 2011 at 4:57 PMFor the folks at Team trying to assist stevemisch, I know this is awfully late in the day, but perhaps if steve's expansion sentence had included 'When' in the English translation, e.g., "When on your way home, could you buy some fruit along the way?", it would have seemed more like a question. In the Mandarin this uncertainty about the time is brought up with the phrase 'de shíhou', but for some reason, which may may be a lack of precision and discipline at work, this phrase is ignored in the English translation. Such laxity can create unnecessary confusion for people like steve.