User Comments - RJ
RJ
Posted on: Going to the Doctor
June 15, 2009 at 10:18 AMexpansion sentence number two - the roll over defines "wei" as "hedgehog" rather than stomach. Thats a stretch, even for Pete. :-)
Posted on: Which Finger?
June 15, 2009 at 10:11 AMvocab error:
the mp3 file associated with heishehui on the vocab page is wrong. It vocalizes zhilu rather than heishehui. This error also follows the vocab set when transfered to the flashcards. A mob conspiracy?
Posted on: Saying Good-bye at a Tavern in Nanjing -- 金陵酒肆留别
June 15, 2009 at 8:36 AM300 tang poems are also presented here:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/chinese/frame.htm
a good start.
Posted on: Dubai
June 14, 2009 at 5:27 PMJosh
洗澡 xi zao is to bathe, 淋浴 lin yu is an actual "shower". Its a loose translation all right. Hmmm, not sure I would want either one. I dont even drink milk. Its white for Gods sake :-).
Posted on: To do
June 13, 2009 at 5:41 PMthanks Bill
Posted on: To do
June 13, 2009 at 11:06 AMbaba
it shouldnt happen in the first place. Evidently pete's dog ate his homework.
Well, half of it, anyway :-)
Posted on: To do
June 13, 2009 at 10:28 AMbaba mate
thanks for picking up the slack. Heres the pinyin added.
做..to do zuo4
做作业...do homework - zuo4 zuo4 ye4
做家务...do housework - zuo4 jia1 wu4
做生意...do business - zuo4 sheng1 yi4
做饭...cook - zuo4 fan4
做菜...cook - zuo4 cai4
你在做什么？....what are you doing? - ni3 zai4 zuo4 shen2 me?
干...to do - gan1
你在干什么？...what are you doing?- ni3 zai4 gan1 shen2 me?
你在干吗？...what are you up to? - ni3 zai4 gan1 ma?
干活....to work [manual labour] - gan1 huo2
去地里干活...to go out to the fields to work - qu4 di4 li3 gan1 huo2u
我是干销售的....I work in sales - wo3 shi4 gan1 xiao1 shou4 de
我们是干教育的...we do education - wo3men shi4 gan1 jiao4 yu4 de
办 ...to do,to manage - ban4
怎么办，怎么办？...what's to be done? - zen3me ban4
周杰伦有一个歌 “怎么办，怎么办？”...a song by Jay Chou "what's to be done?" zhou1 jie2 lun2 you3 yi1 ge ge1 "zen3 me ban4, zen3 me ban4"?
怎么办这事？..what do we do now? - zen3me ban4 zhe4 shi4 ?
Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 11: Wang in the Doghouse
June 13, 2009 at 3:04 AMyep, you nailed it Pete. Not some other Lanzhou - love it. :-)
Posted on: What's Your Surname?
June 12, 2009 at 1:57 PMshenyajin
cant you use 称 cheng1 to ask informaly someone's first name or nickname? Something like 他们称什么你? (what do they call you?). What would be the proper way to do this?
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Dongbei
June 18, 2009 at 9:17 AMPete- maybe you should actualy listen to the lessons. If I had your job, I would require this of myself. I know there are a lot of them, and to you they are probably boring, but it always seems the right hand doesnt know what the left is doing.