User Comments - bababardwan

Posted on: Football and Dragon Boats

So is this "dia" the Shanghainese equivalent of the Mandarin "撒娇“？ Freud would have a field day,hehe.

Posted on: Football and Dragon Boats

Now what I would love to know is if I rocked up to Daini's bartender and tried out my rudimentary Chinese if she would have requested I speak in English. Did you see any of the 老外 trying to speak Chinese with her Daini?

Posted on: World Cup and Diamonds

气氛一定要是真热闹。我很想去那里 【the atmosphere must be really lively and exciting.I very much want to go there ]

Posted on: Doing the math with 算 (suàn)

go_manly 在哪儿？我算这届课程是很适合你，呵呵

Posted on: Doing the math with 算 (suàn)

我算了一下而认为我们有大概二三用户叫“加西莫多”：

http://chinesepod.com/community/profile/view/quasimoso1

。。不可能

http://chinesepod.com/community/profile/view/quasimodo

。。。最有可能

http://chinesepod.com/community/profile/view/quasimodooo

。。。将真正的加西莫多请您站起来【直】

Posted on: World Cup and Diamonds

thanks rodswithoutnumber. If you haven't seen it,that film is not for the fainthearted

Posted on: Sydney, Australia

你知道长夜提到人。。。别人在澳大利亚

Posted on: World Cup and Diamonds

Oh no. Don't tell me you've taken down the Olympics minisite:

http://chinesepod.com/community/conversations/post/2091

..the link and address:

http://chinesepod.com/olympics/

both seem to be broken. I know the olympics are well and truly over but it was still such an excellent resource both for sports lingo and all the countries. I hope it is just a bug. I was going to post the link here because of all the countries that will be competing in the world cup and the excellent country info you had on that minisite.

Posted on: Ping Pong

100 year old Aussie recently shows 'em what we're made of in this favourite Chinese sport:

http://www.reuters.com/news/video/story?videoId=99493724

http://www.ittf.com/stories/Stories_detail.asp?Year=&General_Catigory=general%2C+Waiting___%2C+Waiting___&ID=21281

Jiayou Dot !! Rice power granny.

Posted on: World Cup and Diamonds

oh right,thanks john. Either I haven't come across any of those, or I didn't twig to it at the time as it wasn't pointed out and it didn't present a problem. Mafan ni [sorry to trouble you,but...] off the top of your head do you have any examples?