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Posted on: Translation Tools
August 27, 2011 at 8:18 AM

http://toshuo.com/chinese-tools/pinyin-tone-tool/#

This site enables you to type in pinyin and write the tones in numbers, and it will convert your text to tone marks.

Posted on: The Depth of 深
August 27, 2011 at 8:08 AM

 For those with crook joints/ arthritis and need to buy fish oil in China at the chemist, it's called : 深海鱼油 shēnhǎi yúyóu.  (deep-sea fish oil)

Posted on: Punctuation Marks
August 9, 2011 at 2:21 PM

On IME Microsoft Pinyin the 顿号 is also the backslash - above the enter key.

Posted on: Punctuation Marks
August 9, 2011 at 2:17 PM

And - 'dot dot dot' sounded pretty acceptable too - that's what I would have said!

Posted on: Punctuation Marks
August 9, 2011 at 2:15 PM

Jenny:  In conversation you showed some differences in terminology between English brands - perhaps because of your Australian education, where we call these things .. 'full stops' instead of 'periods', and these () are commonly called 'brackets' and these[] are commonly called 'square brackets' - at least in my neck of the woods!  But we understand what the Americans mean.  No big deal.

Posted on: Cold Noodles
July 9, 2011 at 7:56 AM

Thanks for this lesson, much appreciated.  Perhaps in a later lesson the measures could also be added - how much of the ingredients.

Posted on: Unlucky Day
June 25, 2011 at 2:50 PM

This sounds like the first episode in a series.  Is it?  I hope it is.

So the girlfriend has taken up with the drummer next door?  Who threw the baseball?  When will we find out?

Posted on: Gao Kao
June 12, 2011 at 3:20 PM

There never is for BST.

Posted on: Ordering Fancy Coffee
May 22, 2011 at 2:29 AM

70块钱。这么贵！

At those prices coffee is more expensive than where I live in Australia, despite the lower cost of labour in China.  But a jar of Nescafe is expensive for the locals in China too.

Posted on: Signs in China and Mistranslation
May 22, 2011 at 2:18 AM

Actually a vodcast would be even better - showing the pics in synchro with the talk.  Can you do it? Please.