User Comments - bababardwan

Posted on: What do Foreigners Like?

ta,I'm not so young ,so in that case I'm now wondering if instead when I first come to China I should be called a 小老老外 later to graduate to a：

老老老外

Posted on: What do Foreigners Like?

thanks mate.So when I first come to China,could I be considered a 小老外？

Posted on: Haggling Like a Local

having a conversation with someone on the SpanishPod team

....do you mean on the SpanishPod website or are you actually there in Shanghai?

Posted on: Calling People Names

Actually,I have been thinking how I really like the intro.I also like the comparison in the lessons with Mandarin.What I would like to see is some more vocab in the lessons.I realise this is being pitched at a newbie level,but I can't help but feel that if we are only going to get 10 lessons in this series then it's not going to be a lot in the end.Maybe if there will eventually be a second season of the dialects aimed at Ellie level it will be ok.

Posted on: Li Yan's Diary: Love and Italian Food

..of about 3 podcasts a day

Posted on: Shanghai Expo: Haibao

oh right,thanks for setting me straight mate.Did I miss a "must see"? What are the consequences of having a gumbyless upbringing?

Posted on: Shanghai Expo: Haibao

hehe,thanks....and given that his/her waist is roughly where his/her mouth is ..may be another hint at why the name is "high bow"

[..and he just keeps getting lamer ]

Posted on: Monopoly, Uno, or Twister?

This is especially notable when you look at Chinese transliterations of foreign words.

..ah yeah,I have noticed that.Good observations.

And "strewth??" ask any non-native English speaker to say that three times fast. Great Scrabble word, btw!

..hehe,sounds like a fun game for those wanting to be more Aussie than the Aussies. :)

Posted on: Lovey-Dovey Terminology

jimijames,

that's sounding somewhat yin/yang to me...was that part of it [I hope you don't mind me asking...just curious...feel free to ignore]?

Posted on: Monopoly, Uno, or Twister?

Thanks for that link and photo tal...really cool.Was it a good find or have you played it? If so,pray tell more about your experience. Interestingly it says it's based on the English "Squabble" which I hadn't heard of before which is a twist on Scrabble:

http://www.wikihow.com/Play-Squabble

Recently I did play "Chinese Scrabble".Actually while the rest of the fam played ordinary English Scrabble,I just used pinyin.I made an interesting discovery...or at least I should say..at least it seemed to me.I drew very few vowels as luck would have it in the game and it seemed to me that Chinese was more reliant on having some vowels than English.Just take the word "strewth" for example.6 consonants to one vowel.Can anyone come up with similar examples in Chinese pinyin to prove me wrong?