User Comments - Mingmao
Mingmao
Posted on: School Life in China
June 23, 2012 at 8:24 AMCool vocabulary, thanks!
Posted on: Expectations and Predictions
June 23, 2012 at 8:14 AMDoes 达不到你的预期目标 have to relate to sales? Can it relate to grades in school, or succeeding in getting a certain person to date you, or publishing in a certain magazine?
Posted on: Editing a Document
June 21, 2012 at 3:31 AMCan 细腻 also be used to describe a person's face? And if so, what would that mean, exactly?
Posted on: The Preposition 于(yu)
June 5, 2012 at 3:50 AMOh thank you so much for this. Please, more on these mind-bending one-character structural words.
Posted on: Powerpoint Presentation Problems
May 30, 2012 at 7:37 AM还有，删除和删掉有什么区别？
Posted on: Powerpoint Presentation Problems
May 30, 2012 at 7:32 AMIn the discussion it is stated that "你把所有内容都写在上面了 " cannot be expressed without 把; however, I'm wondering if you could just simply remove both 你 and 把: " 所有内容都写在上面了"
Posted on: School Life in China
May 30, 2012 at 3:27 AMAround 12:20 is a word not in your vocabulary list above, and also seemingly not in my dictionary. Is it perhaps 逃夜？ Otherwise, please, what is táoyè?
Posted on: A Qing Wen to Our Listeners
May 29, 2012 at 3:45 AMI would like a Qingwen on describing all the possible textures of food. This comes up often at dinner, and then when I return home to try to figure out once and for all what the other person was saying or how to express what I wanted to say, the dictionary is no use! For example, I wanted to describe sea cucumber as very chewy, or perhaps rubbery; the other party suggested the word 坚韧, which the dictionary then translated as "tenacious."
Mushy, soft, smooth, gritty, crunchy, flaky, crumbly, powdery, chewy, rubbery, tough, melts in your mouth, etc....
I have also heard that there are some differences between Chinese and Western perceptions of textures of things in the mouth; it would be nice to have this addressed too.
Finally, is 口感 the texture of something in the mouth, or the experience of something in the mouth, including texture? I haven't been able to figure this out. If 口感 is not purely texture, how does one specifically indicate that one is referring to just the texture of something in the mouth?
Posted on: Visa Issues
May 27, 2012 at 3:49 AMI am in China now. It was 3-month nightmare getting a 6-month visa. Eventually a Canadian friend hooked me up with a home stay in China. The family wrote a 邀请函 saying they wanted me to live with them for 6 months to help their daughter's English.
Posted on: Expectations and Predictions
June 25, 2012 at 11:20 AMThanks, Jenny!