User Comments - zhong_bide
zhong_bide
Posted on: What Would You Say You Do Here?
July 25, 2009 at 3:23 AMI would have liked to see the answer to the question!
eg. wo3 shi4 hu4shi ( I am a nurse)
or wo3 shi4 jing3cha2. ni3 gen1 wo3 lai2 ( I am a police officer. Come with me.)
Something surprising would have been good. :)
Posted on: Drinking Game
July 21, 2009 at 11:53 AMIs there a female equivalent for 哥们儿？
Posted on: Pinyin Section 4: R
July 18, 2009 at 2:58 AMI too would like to add my voice to doing something on radicals. I know that it would involve some technical knowhow, since I imagine some flash animation (or similar) showing parts of characters being added and removed to reveal components and characters which have the same radicals. But since paying more attention to writing this year I have come to realise that a knowledge of the radicals helps memorize the chacters (some much more than others) either in terms of meaning or sound.
So, John P et al, I know the comments were a bit harsh on the last attempt, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater! In the next attempt, you don't need to try and be funny - that's all.
(I still have my copy RS0001.mp4)
Posted on: Lessons and Comment Policy
July 12, 2009 at 5:12 AMOr Perhaps Lao Wang gets a job brokering deals between Hebei Iron & Steel and Rio Tinto!
(And meets Stern Hu)
Posted on: How're You Doing? 得
July 11, 2009 at 3:38 AM@changye
Can 泳 also be a noun? So then 游泳 would mean to "swim a swim", in the same way in English we can say, "let's have a swim"?
I had learnt to say, 他游得很好。
Just enquiring.
Posted on: No TV Before Your Test!
July 10, 2009 at 1:36 PM@Go_Manly
Thanks for sharing your dictionary. I like it. Well done!
Tis a pity though that your blues are due to lose again next Wednesday!!
Go_Broncos.
Posted on: No TV Before Your Test!
July 10, 2009 at 1:29 PMI've been a high school teacher for over 30 years and have seen the changes (13 - 17 year olds). Fewer students in my country study maths & science subjects these days, and when I go to the university and peep inside the lecture theatre I see a sea of Asian faces. Many of our top students come from an Indian or Chinese heritage, and I believe they come from a culture where study is valued whereas many of the others come from a culture where parties are more highly valued. Very sad, and I think it's the same for most students who have a European ancestry.
However, how could you possibly learn to write all those characters without much practise? Perhaps all that memorisation of characters has trained the minds to be more adept at study in other fields. Wish I could write the characters better!!!
Posted on: Pinyin Sections 3-4
July 9, 2009 at 12:36 PMI have found the "c sounds like English ts" very unhelpful in the past. How we pronounce the ts depends somewhat on the vowel preceding it. I found that when I pronounced the ts the tip of my tongue was initially high in my mouth and then moved lower. But that is not the way the c is produced. I found it essential to speak about tongue position before I got it right.
Posted on: Measure Words for Food
August 1, 2009 at 2:23 PMStarting to sound confusing - with regional uses. But it reminds me that in English we also have our regional uses. When I saw "scallion" in the translation, it reminded me that where I come from, these are known as "shallots". But that's the nature of language, eh!