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alwingate
Posted on: Where Do You Live?
May 11, 2008 at 3:45 AMA consideration C-Pod. Since high frequency language is your style I am wondering if it is possible to have high frequency chinese characters. You know, like the ones that can be seen on the street? It would be great to have such a resource since I drive around on my scooter lost most of the time - overwhelmed by the number and size of the characters.
Posted on: Where Do You Live?
May 11, 2008 at 3:43 AMHere are a couple nagging problems: First, the links to vocabulary section in the Supplemental Vocabulary are broken. Not all. Secondly this has to do with the reproduction of sound or reciting sentences from the instructor. This sentence is problematic for me. 你在哪里工作？ The particle ma is present but the reader takes it up slightly though at times it doesn't feel right to me to go that direction. My question about "ma" Does ma remain a neutral tone when spoken? And how is it affected by the word before it? Also, in the western pattern of questioning there is inflection. "Are you going?" which affects the entire sentence. Now in speaking Chinese do we give the western inflection when asking a question? Any help is appreciated due to the fact that I confuse easily. It is a learning obstacle. P: Also, just cut and pasted Chinese characters and have no idea what the pinyin is - sorry.
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hunan
May 9, 2008 at 4:15 PMA1pi2 Yes, Moscone Center, you are right. Also, I remember the assassination of Moscone along with Harvey Milk I believe. Perpetrated by a man named White who was exonerated because he had eaten too many twinkies. Can that be true? Tis my memory.
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hunan
May 9, 2008 at 9:58 AMBlueJay I am very familiar with San Francisco. I lived there for over nine years. Okay, I'll play you the truth. I lived in San Jose for over nine years and visited San Francisco often. Each year Apple Computer holds a conference in Moscow and a center and displays their latest innovations. At any rate, San Francisco is slowly becoming a city of the haves and have-nots. Prices for a decent home i.e. a lost may run in the millions of dollars. Amortize that one out over 30 years. However the best thing about San Francisco in my opinion is not the Chinese food in particular it is the quality of many of the restaurants that you can find there.
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hunan
May 9, 2008 at 9:54 AMChange, I didn't realize the oh so many details about the life of Chairman Mao. He certainly was a force to be reckoned with also in the kitchen. Would you come by since knowledge of this? Is this from experience i.e. StreetSmarts or is this from book learning IE worm smarts.
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hunan
May 9, 2008 at 9:53 AMFor those of you who have a low tolerance for spicy food I would respectfully suggest a special lesson on the use of Chinese in the local restaurants. I think it is really unfair for us older folks to have to differentiate in Chinese between medium and hot. To me it sounds like the same Word. But I know it is not due in part or maybe in totality because of its tone. Both the wonders of tone. I guess just to be on the safe side a person with a bold stomach like me off to stick with the mild. at any rate no matter what category of spiciness you choose you will know the next day for sure whether with mild medium or hot.
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hunan
May 9, 2008 at 9:49 AMJimmy Choo I am not really sure what you mean by Yao Ming transferring Texas food to China. There is a food they call Tex Mex. They say that this is a combination of the best of Texas food combined with the best of Mexican food. What it amounts to in my experience is really good Mexican food with sweetcorn tossed it.
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hunan
May 9, 2008 at 9:47 AMTexas to China Interesting transition: from Bush country to? Show interesting tales about how we ended up where we are. Our life has been a journey -- the journey less traveled by most -- and I think it is interesting to find out the history of peoples journeys. For examples, I ended up in Taiwan because as a young boy Taiwan was in the news and as I was looking through the different ads for English teachers Taiwan jumped out at me. That's the short version.
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hunan
May 9, 2008 at 9:44 AMClay, you say this series will be fun. I'm not sure how long this series is going to be. I have been eating for a long long time and therefore find this habit rather annoying since I have gained over 50 pounds since moving to Taiwan. However I'm sure what you have said has some merit -- I'm just not sure the specifics of your statement.
Posted on: Where Do You Live?
May 11, 2008 at 3:48 AMOne more: I am so happy to hear Aric the producer once again creating tags for C-Pod. I must tell you that one of the reasons I was attracted in the first place was because of those funny tags. Thanks Aric. Let me assure you. I am not letting anyone else use my account; I have to confess though that I do access CPod at work and at home at times. Therefore, two different computers. Perhaps Web 2.0 isn't that smart after all.