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bababardwan
Posted on: Happy Birthday China
September 28, 2009 at 1:11 AMok,looks like I should have enabled the pinyin tone converter before I'd started the comment.Can't use it via editing above but should work from now on.
Jiāyóu...cool.It works,as does skritter.Thanks CPod.
Posted on: Happy Birthday China
September 28, 2009 at 1:08 AMJiayou David who did an excellent job on this lesson.
加油。。。jia1you2
Posted on: Clean Energy in China with Dennis Bracy
September 28, 2009 at 12:42 AMWow,excellent relevant and topical interview.I'll be interested to learn when electric cars will be widely available in Australia.Will there be an economically viable way of converting petrol cars to electric?
"They even sell cardboard or inflatable passengers to help you avoid getting a ticket. I tried letting mine drive but it didnt work out too well :-)."
..hehe,very funny RJ.I didn't know that.
One thing about riding pushbikes.I don't know what the situation is like in China,but here in Oz very few workplaces seem to have a shower.I once rang around several places looking to find out if they had a shower before I was lucky enough to find one before I then asked if I could have a job.Others seemed to think this was a strange way to approach a job,but hey it worked for me..I could now ride my bike to work.So perhaps not only should such cleaner options be made more appealing,but also research into what the barriers are to making such options practical and ways to remove the barriers.e.g as alluded to above,town planning for safe bikeways.
Posted on: Happy Birthday China
September 27, 2009 at 10:33 PM中国生日快乐和孔夫子生日快乐【今天是圣诞】
Posted on: Coming Up Next: 接下来，然后，还有，那么
September 19, 2009 at 9:42 AMNope.Probably a tall order getting a celeb on,but if you don't ask,you never know...
Posted on: Coming Up Next: 接下来，然后，还有，那么
September 19, 2009 at 9:03 AMHey,wouldn't it be cool if Dashan was interviewed on the Jenny Zhu show?
Posted on: Jewish Holiday
September 17, 2009 at 6:52 AMAre there any Chinese words that are transliterations from Hebrew? Any other cultural impacts?
Posted on: City Series: Bali
September 13, 2009 at 8:53 AMSorry Matt,only just seen your request now.Here's that Redgum clip:
...it's youtube btw.Are you folk in China still blocked from youtube? Can you do the proxy thing?
I agree with go_manly though.Cool to check out the Bali song for the lyrics and it's relevance to this lesson,but I wouldn't say I particularly liked the song from a musical viewpoint.I was a fan of this song of theirs though[not sure if it's the one go_manly was referring to,but I reckon it's a fair bet]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urtiyp-G6jY
Posted on: Not Cooked Enough
September 28, 2009 at 1:37 AMhehe,no wonder it came so fast.I'd like to know how long they soak it in the alcohol,what alcohol is usually used and whether people ever get drunk eating them [我醉最好的朋友是醉因为他吃太多的醉虾。。。wǒ zuì zuì hǎo de péngyou shì zuì yīnwei tā chī tài duō de zuìxiā..my drunk best friend is drunk because he ate too many drunken shrimp】.Also,how does one eat a moving drunken shrimp.Any tips? Great dialogue.
btw this dialogue is funny to an Aussie.Asking to 来 a 虾 and then the guy thinks they're having him on bringing him one still moving.Evokes the expression.."don't come the raw prawn with me".