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zhong_bide
Posted on: Ordering Flowers
October 7, 2009 at 12:50 PMAustralian flower names in Chinese
Grevillea银桦属 = yin2hua4shu3
Banksia 拔克西木属 = ba2ke4xi1mu4shu3
Callistemon (bottlebrush) 红千层属 = hong2qian1ceng2shu3
Posted on: Morning Hygiene
October 3, 2009 at 2:41 PMBy "westerner" I think most that subscribe to the idea that "westerners" only shower in the morning must come from colder climates and are white collar workers!!.
I'm from subtropical Australia (and have also lived in the tropics). You would be filthy to go to bed without showering/ bathing. Yuk! You would have to wash your bedding every day. I also grew up on a farm - where you got quite dirty from farm work. Unthinkable to go to bed filthy. So, it's NOT merely a western thing, I hope!! Climate and work dependent, at least.
I hope you "westerners" living in China at least bathe before bedtime when it's summer there.
Posted on: Not Cooked Enough
September 29, 2009 at 2:16 PMFair crack of the whip!
You come the raw prawn with me and you'll get the rough end of the pineapple!
For interpretation, see: http://www.smh.com.au/national/rudd-and-the-raw-prawn-factor-20090611-c4k8.html
Posted on: Bean: Volunteering and Making a Difference in Shanghai
September 16, 2009 at 8:11 AMI think this show is a welcome addition and provides cultural insights, similar to the Dear Amber show. DA wasn't usually in Chinese, and so I am happy for this show to be in English since it reaches across to the learners of all levels.
It's good to hear about charity work, something we rarely hear about in China.
Keep up the good work Jenny.
Posted on: The Sherpas Story with Mark Secchia
September 9, 2009 at 7:26 AMThanks orangina. Degrees have all sorts of names in different places.
Posted on: The Sherpas Story with Mark Secchia
September 9, 2009 at 7:06 AMDoes everybody except me know what and MBA program is?
Posted on: Chinese for Trekkies
September 6, 2009 at 2:12 PMMy wife's GG grandmother was born in Dublin in 1822. (truly ruly). Can I qualify to be Irish?
no? What If I change my name to Paddy Malone?
Posted on: Grammar Lesson
September 3, 2009 at 1:21 PMWho began the silly myth that Chinese doesn't have grammar?
I've had chinese students in Australia even tell me that Chinese is easy (for native speakers it would be!!) because it doesn't have grammar. They know it doesn't have any grammar because they never learnt any Chinese grammar at school, only English grammar. I pointed out that one could reason that English doesn't have grammar either because most kids at school in Queensland (until recently) didn't learn any English grammar.
And of course it has tenses. What about those rules for adding 了，过，会，在，and 没instead of 不? And or course adverbs of time can't be put anywhere in the sentence.
OF COURSE CHINESE HAS GRAMMAR!!
如果有人说中文没有语法我就杀死他！！
Posted on: A Mouse Upstairs
August 31, 2009 at 10:05 PMI've not only had rats in the house in Brisbane, but magpies and 2m+ carpet pythons. Once my wife pulled a carpet python out from under the fridge before taking it out down the back and letting it go over the fence into bushland. An electician pulled out 5 snake skins (2m+) from inside our ceiling!
Last night there was a lot of movement noises in our ceiling, so the either the rats are back or the snake, or both - the carpet pythons come looking for the rats. We don't really like having the bigs ones (snakes) around because they could consume our little dogs while they're asleep!
I found it incredible that Ken had never associated miao with mao1. I laughed when I first heard that chinese for cat was mao1 - what an easy one to remember.
How about a lesson on snakes sometimes?
Posted on: Turn Right, Turn Left
October 16, 2009 at 8:01 AMTechies:The English in the PDF dialogue is incorrect - left and right are the wrong way round. The hanzi and pinyin are correct.