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Pirmin
Posted on: Ballet
June 16, 2011 at 7:27 AMThe instructions (and the terminology) were all in Chinese, as far as I could understand them. In French I would have been lost. I think the teacher knows the French terminology (for example "plié"), but he used Chinese.
Posted on: Ballet
June 13, 2011 at 4:10 PMNo, kimiik, luckily I wasn't! The people in the ballet class were somewhere between 25 and 60 of age, some of them more or less beginners with ballet (like me). One of the teacher's main concern was that no one gets injured.
Posted on: Ballet
June 12, 2011 at 1:04 PMYes, zhenlijiang, the instructions were in Chinese (something like 一位！二位手！三位！左边！右边！往外！往里！前腿！后腿！绷脚！抬头！等) and I identified one word that sounded like "plié". But that's all that I remember. I am sure I didn't always understand the instructions. Sometimes I just watched what the others in the class were doing and then tried to do the same.
Posted on: Ballet
June 12, 2011 at 1:11 AMSome time ago I participated in a ballet class in a sports club in China where we learned to perform a short sequence of the famous "Red Detachment of Women" (红色娘子军 hóngsè niángzǐ jūn). I felt like an elephant among the graceful Chinese ladies, but it was great fun.
Posted on: Sleeping in
June 12, 2011 at 12:39 AM我喜欢自然醒, 不用开闹钟.
Posted on: The Stepmother Role
June 7, 2011 at 8:42 AMA Chinese friend of mine in Beijing, 40 years old, does often use 您 when talking to his parents.
Posted on: Detective Li 1: The Bath House Murder
May 23, 2011 at 6:13 AM我不明白李探长为什么觉得凶手就是那个助手。如果是他，他拿什么东西当作凶器?
在浴室泡澡喝茶正常吗? 我没去过浴室。(我洗澡的时候不会喝茶。)
Posted on: I wet the bed!
May 9, 2011 at 9:14 AMOk, thank you for your explanation, David an Jiaojie, I think I really heard 尿炕 (niàokàng) somewhere in the north (maybe Beijing).
Posted on: I wet the bed!
May 9, 2011 at 5:10 AMIf one wants to use the toilet maybe one can say 我想方便一下 (wǒ xiǎng fāngbiàn yīxià). I think I have heard this sentence several times.
Posted on: Manly Men and Womanly Women
June 19, 2011 at 2:12 AMI think I have heard "tiger mother" is 虎妈妈 (hǔ māma), not 母老虎 (mǔlǎohǔ).