User Comments - bababardwan
bababardwan
Posted on: Terracotta Warriors
September 10, 2012 at 9:06 AMThanks John for your kanfa [viewpoint]
"it's not really in Beijing"
hehe, yeah, I was just trying to get as much as possible to count as one destination for my top 5.
"Yangshuo"
...yeah, I think this is what I meant by the nearby Guilin...I'm not sure of the difference between the two, but it's to see all the scenic karst peaks and other natural outdoorsy attractions
For someone who's never been, such a list is more straightfoward, but if you've been I guess there could be 3 lists....top 5 places you've been to, top 5 places you haven't been to but want to go to, and top 5 overall.
Posted on: Whether or Not to Use "If"
September 10, 2012 at 8:55 AM哦，那当然，关于中国领导人这个就是应该很明显哦。。。我没考虑考虑那个方面[我这个笨蛋]，我只是一点儿惊讶奥巴马提到了那么多
Posted on: Terracotta Warriors
September 10, 2012 at 4:22 AMI guess my top 5 want to see destinations would be:
Shanghai
Beijing and the great wall
Shaolin temple
chengdu, pandas, yangtze 3 gorges
huangshan or at least one of the sacred mountains
kunming
tibet
guilin
harbin ice festival
Posted on: Terracotta Warriors
September 10, 2012 at 4:15 AMSo John, what are your top 5 China destinations then?
Posted on: Don't push me!
September 10, 2012 at 4:14 AMphew, thanks connie :)
Posted on: Pandas in Chengdu
September 9, 2012 at 11:14 PM"This lesson is not hard but the spoken pace is to fast for a newbie lesson"
I have just reviewed all the newbie dialogues and I think this comment is a fair comment. It is one of the fastest dialogues in the whole newbie series. There was another one in the first year or two [ I wish I'd noted which one it was now] which made me laugh because it was super quick for newbie level. It really contrasted with others because early on there were also some incredibly slow paced newbies.
Posted on: The Typhoon
September 9, 2012 at 9:51 AMzhong_bide,
While waiting for a teacher answer, when there are a few options, I like to look at what the component characters are trying to say. MDBG gives two entries for cyclone：
龙卷风 。。。dragon...rolled up...wind....which sounds to me more like the description of a twister and indeed tornado is listed first, even though a cyclone comes under it's options as well
气旋....air revolving....sounds a bit better description and a bonus here is that mdbg gives cyclone as the only meaning.
But the clincher for me is that Chinese wikipedia has 气旋 as the name it uses for it's article on cylcones:
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%94%E6%97%8B
...that would give me enough comfort to go with this word. Just my 2 fen mate. Hope you get an answer :)
Posted on: Internet Slang (Part Two)
September 9, 2012 at 3:44 AM哈哈，我要知道这些俚语是不是一种提示[可能以后会看到很多的“路过”、“飘过”、 “飞过”、 “水贴”，等等]
Posted on: Thank You and Sorry
September 8, 2012 at 10:58 PMcharles,
this is probably not the best way to describe it but "qi" has more of a "ch" sound and "xi" has more of a "sh" sound. But I think there is a pronunciation guide on the site. Probably best to have a look at the pinyin chart and there was a series called the pinyin programme. Give a yell if you can't find it.
Posted on: Terracotta Warriors
September 10, 2012 at 9:15 AM"Chengdu in the top five"
haha, well yeah, I was thinking along with pandas, in parentheses there is a great Aussie guy down that way, but I was too shy to mention it, heehee.
Yes! tiger leaping gorge.....I hope that I can get that tiger to leap a long way and be counted on my chengdu number 4 listing, heehee
"Oh, Shanghai is included in my travel guide - substitute for Hong Kong if you like"
HK is a great place, but I've been there so that's why it's not on my list, and Shanghai would always be number one, in no small degree due to my desire to meet the CPod team if they'd still have me, hehe.
I'd love to hear your reasons for your choices mate.
"GMTA"....Ha!! I thought you hated acronyms, hehe ;)