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bababardwan
Posted on: Napkins
April 26, 2009 at 10:24 PMmmadison,
lol.Thanks for the good tip.Perhaps when considering buying a train ticket off to a village one could enquire of the ticket seller:
nong2cun1 you3 can1jin1zhi3 ma?
[Village has napkins?]
Posted on: Napkins
April 26, 2009 at 1:24 PMbodawei,
hehe,yeah,very good.
mmadison,
I'd like to hear more of this licence thing too.I'm wondering when this was that you were knocked back because I've heard that several years ago foreigners were restricted in where they could go.Are licences still required.Also glad to hear the napkins were in good form,but how many were you offered?
Posted on: Luke is Back! And So Are the Zombies!
April 26, 2009 at 1:03 PMreigau,
Are you suggesting he returns as a guide in a temple who 接待 night visitors and discusses the power of the 佛寺 ？Sometimes you have to enter the darkness to save the Light.
Hopefully the political situation will remain quiet and he won't have to say:
"There is a great disturbance in the 佛寺”
Posted on: How Far Away are You From Understanding 离？
April 26, 2009 at 12:31 PMbodawei,benchannevy,
Thanks guys.The transcript gave 吃了大亏 but it sounded to me a bit more like 吃个大亏。But benchannevy's 吃大亏 turns up in mdbg as a recognised phrase as he rightly says meaning :
to cost one dealy/to end disastrously/to pay bitterly
Posted on: How Far Away are You From Understanding 离？
April 26, 2009 at 10:30 AMCan anyone please explain to me what Pete meant by:
"吃了大亏" ?
..when they were joking around about him missing the plane.Did it mean he'd lost his dough or something along those lines?
Great QW as usual with plenty of good examples.
btw Thanks Matt for your kind words.Cheers :)
Posted on: Napkins
April 26, 2009 at 10:02 AM
bodawei,
"I'm trying to think how to get this back on topic"
...I would have just asked the crucial question:
LP,Sim's Cozy Guesthouse 的餐巾纸怎么样 ['s napkins,how were they] ?
我不想你的座谈是不结果 [I don't think your discussion is fruitless].Your room up near 长白山 sounds like a great example.他们的毛巾有多大了？[How big were their towels?]
Posted on: Napkins
April 26, 2009 at 5:23 AM..will Sim's be the next case of LP exposure though ? hehe :)
Posted on: Napkins
April 26, 2009 at 3:19 AMbodawei,
Thanks for indulging my curiosity mate.Sorry if I put you in an awkward spot.I have LP guides also and used one in Taiwan for example but was only there a week.The books make a real point of not accepting kickbacks etc and being impartial,so I knew it must be a follow on effect after publication.Well illustrated point.It's great to get personal tales like this;I see exactly what you mean.Yeah,that would be a bit frustrating and I agree with trying to get more into the genuine stuff,avoiding the tourist traps.So I take it you also think these joints drop their game after they get their recommendation and rest on their laurels.
Posted on: Luke is Back! And So Are the Zombies!
April 26, 2009 at 3:06 AMLight,
Thanks for posting these added insights;useful.Your line:
"may be 15 to 20 new words in total. What I did learn was how to use what I did know and how to pronounce that limited vocabulary better"
..was particularly interesting and rang true.
I'm wondering what you found most useful to refer to when it came to finding words or jogging your memory.Was it your phrasebook,or something else?
Posted on: Picking Up 拿
April 27, 2009 at 9:19 AMtommy2tone,
Sorry,I couldn't read Hanzi at the time as I was away and have only just got back to this lesson and seen your question.I was just playing around with the different na words for practice and made up a silly sentence which is likely grammatically wrong.
zhong4.重..heavy
xiong2.熊...bear