User Comments - Pirmin

Posted on: The Rising Cost of Food

今天的课，和这music video，很有意思！＂大家都做快乐的乞丐＂，（music video 3:12, 3:34, 乞丐qǐgài: beggar），如果老要这样，肯定不是很好玩儿吧。

Posted on: Skincare: Moisturizing Cream

牙膏 yágāo (tooth paste).

Maybe what you hear as "ah go" is the cantonese pronounciation of it?

Posted on: 学历造假

钱钟书写的小说＂围城＂的主人公，方鸿渐，我听说也是个比较有名的骗子。方鸿渐在国外留学时，也买了假的文凭。（这故事发生在什么时候？上个世纪三十年代？）有时间我一定要去看。

Posted on: Sign Language in China

好像，对一个没学过汉字的老外来说，中国手语可能还是有点难吧

Posted on: Skincare: Moisturizing Cream

Yesterday I bought 尿素霜 niàosù shuāng (urea cream) for my dry skin.

Posted on: Sign Language in China

真没想到手语还有方言！John, 你觉得手语好学吗？

Posted on: Beards Are for Old Men

I recently visited a chinese shop for several times (quite an experience!) because I often wear wigs myself. This shop both had male and female customers.

Working with people and walking on the street with a bald head also can lead to irritations. I often do that, though not so often in China. Due to some alopecia I don't have hair for 10 years. I am used to it and it is totally o.k. for me, but the people who don't know me normally aren't used to women with bald heads. So sometimes 没办法 , I can understand the men who wear toupets.

Posted on: Have you bought your Shanghai Expo ticket?

For the EXPO 2000 in Germany I bought the tickets right at the entrance of the EXPO park. The long queues of visitors inside the EXPO park waiting at the entrances of the pavilions were a bigger problem. So I only visited the pavilions with the shorter queues. I maybe mostly liked the ones of Switzerland and Bhutan. One of my friends, an architect, had special interest in the architecture of the pavilions themselves. So we also found a lot to see outside just by walking around in the park and we enjoyed the atmosphere.

Posted on: 望子成龙

很有意思的课！

我以前给两个韩国的孩子上德语课。哥哥和妹妹，十一岁左右，两个都很可爱，不过男孩子比较调皮，女孩子比较听话。刚开始他们的妈妈老想坐在旁边让孩子坐好，好好学习，听老师的话。虽然我觉得她肯定是为了我和孩子好，但我请她上课的时候不要坐在旁边管孩子，让他们自己跟我学习。她走了以后，我觉得上课更顺利，更轻松，两个孩子都很努力，男孩子也不特别调皮了。这只是个例子。我也觉得，人需要一些自由空间。问题是，在什么时候，什么情况下需要多少。。。人和人，连两哥哥妹妹，也有不一样的地方。

Posted on: 民间文艺

我小时候在德国和朋友一起也学了点＂踩高跷＂，记得很好玩儿。