Favourite Phrases

Cool one heruilin. The rhythm of it makes it sound brazilian portuguese!

I love the rhythm of

必不可少的

(bi4 bu4 ke3 sha3 de)

for something that's absolutely necessary, .e.g.

我覺得中文播客是必不可少的。

再見，

何睿林

..and maybe her number? ;)

Bazza,

Sometimes it does. Hahaha, if you don't get a good price, at least you'll come out with some practice.

I have heard that wikipedia is unavailable in China. Is this still the case?

wei1xiao4,

I have to agree. useful phrases. I think there is a typo however. In the second phrase

请在说一遍, 慢慢一点。 I think zai should be 再 here?

Well be these I think. :)

"I love FIREFLY!"

我爱《萤火虫》！

"I'm a Browncoat!"

我是“反抗军”！

"Are you a Browncoat?"

你是“反抗军”吗？

"Have you seen Firefly?"

你看了《萤火虫》吗？

Check out: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%9E%A2%E7%81%AB%E8%9F%B2_%28%E9%9B%BB%E8%A6%96%E5%8A%87%29

Ow.

Well, hmmph. I know not a whole lotta folk have seen Firefly and/or Serenity, but I know I'm certainly not the only one. ;)

Good one chillosk, does that one work? :)

Purely for how they sound:

Taxi: 出租汽车 chū zū qì chē

Wood Ear: 木耳 mù ěr

Fun to say!

My favorite phases that I don't know how to say yet:

"I love FIREFLY!" (the TV show)

"I'm a Browncoat!"

"Are you a Browncoat?" or

"Have you seen Firefly?"

:)

因为你真漂亮，给我特别的价格。

How about 我不明白你说什么！ I don't understand what you are saying. I use that one a lot! 请在说一遍, 慢慢一点。Please say it again slowly. I wish these weren't my favorite phrases, but there you have it!

Although I still don't know the song by heart and it sure is quite childish, I like walking around singing to myself:

我是一只小小小鸟 啦啦啦 。。。

(I am NOT at all mimicking something like flapping my little wings or such likes ...)

How about "would you please point that thing away from me?!"

你流血了！ (You're bleeding!)

It amuses me to no end that I cannot remember the word for "hotel," but since this was one of the first phrases I ever learned, it's stuck in my memory forever.

不好意思

不好意思

Mine is food related, survival Chinese:

新鲜 的 xin1xian1 de, FRESH.

To ask at the street vendor if their wares are fresh, or to specify that I want a fresh one, or to protest when the McD's or KFC employees are trying to give me cold french fries or potatoes. I am terrible at remembering tones and the double first tone makes it so easy to say.

Oops typo there, should be 我忘记带钱包了。

The other sentence says 'I forgot to bring person living abroad'. lol

I suggest the following for "don't panic":

在十八分钟以后 我们要去除地球了。不恐慌吧。

i heard this phrase on a tv show from taiwan. it is,

那应该是阿达加厉害。阿达 sounds good, so it is my favour phrase. but i don't know what it means.

我忘记带侨胞了。

Mm.. we do need such central vocabulary as "don't panic!" and "resistance is futile!"

我喜欢你

你真漂亮

我是无所不能机器. I've gone for the completely useless favourite phrase here: "I am the omnipotent robot". It's in the same vein as such favourites like "je suis un ananas!"

I posted this in another conversation, but it belongs here, too:

我还有很多地方需要学习. (I still have a lot to learn.)

我也糊涂了。 (I'm confused too)

真倒霉！ (Really bad luck)

whats wrong with small breasts? No never mind - we dont want to start that conversation.

my phrases 走好 (take care)

马上就好 (ready in a minute)

怎么样 (hows it going?)

算了吧 (forget it)

没办法 (what can be done?)

Bazza,

你喜欢经常准备也出去吗？哈哈。

我的是：

没门儿　（No way!)

慢慢来　（remembering to learn that the hard way, as I would always rush things)

慢走

I guess I then like no way to go about things, or slow ways to do them. :P

Calkins,

We had a discussion about the meaning last month on the forum.

http://forum.chinesepod.com/viewtopic.php?p=20185#20185

For me, it means "there's always smaller breasts" (there's always worse).

bbjt, what does that mean? The translations I got was:

One bosom still has one bosom to let droop. :)

One of my favs is:

開燈

kāi dēng

open the light

Ahhhh, the efficiency of Chinese!

一胸还有一胸低 :)