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cassielin
Posted on: Crosstalk and Labor Day Holiday
May 3, 2008 at 12:10 PMRichard, 台上一分钟，台下十年功！I can tell your hardworking in the past 6 years from your impressive performance. Hope we can see Richard again.^_^ 相声and小品are my favorite traditional chinese art forms. Richard is right,赵本山is very very famous here in China and he brought so much fun for us in the past every Spring Festival Entertainment Programme.
Posted on: 对症下药
May 3, 2008 at 11:15 AMchangye, 你到中国多少年了？学习中文多久了？我想你可算是在chinesepod里的“中国通”了。 对，现在中国的医疗行业确实存在这样或那样的不足，有很多地方有待改进，毕竟这关系到人们的生命财产安全。近些年来，中国政府也在着力解决这类的问题。
Posted on: 对症下药
May 3, 2008 at 11:06 AMauntie68 and henning, there are two kinds of counting age in China, one is周岁and the other is 虚岁. 4周岁means you are 4 around years old while 4虚岁means you are almost 4 years old. These two ways of counting are relate to the 阴历lunar calendar and阳历solar calendar. Cassie
Posted on: Paris
April 29, 2008 at 2:24 PMClay 和Amber是一对吗？我一直好奇我们美丽漂亮的Amber是否有男友了呢，原来是你Clay!^_^
Posted on: Not on purpose
April 28, 2008 at 12:13 PMHi RJ， Thank you very much for helping me to understand clearly about the new expression. I got it now. I feel so sorry that delay to give the translation about that sentence. 1.Man seldom cries, for sorrow hardly arrives. 2.Man don't shed tears until it really hurts. 3.Men do not cry easily, because haven't felt the real sorrow. Those three sentences above are all show that kind of meaning.
Posted on: Not on purpose
April 26, 2008 at 3:08 PMHi guys , Here is a chinese saying that男儿有泪不轻弹，只是未到伤心处。 I am not on purpose to give you a chinese sentence that without any explaina. It has been a long day and I am so tired and hope we can discuss it tomorrow. 关于这句话，我不是故意不给任何的解释的。今天忙了一天，很累了，希望明天再和大家讨论这句话。 P.S.也许大家也听说过这个句子，自己可以明白呢！呵呵。晚安！^_^Btw, just tried to use this new expression "not on purpose". Thank you chinesepod for this good lesson.
Posted on: Regional Accents Part I
April 22, 2008 at 2:24 PMHi changye, Oh, I am sure the third one is a female. LOL I had listened to the lesson more than six times today! For me, I speak 福州话with my parents in daily life.oh, I just can communicate with my old grandmother in 福州话. In China, many older folks just can speak their own dialect. Anyway, I get used to use Mandarin. I have five roommates, two speak闽南话,one speaks龙岩话 and one speaks建瓯话. I can not understand all those dialects very well, but i can understand some of the words. We all speak Mandarin so that we can communicate and understand each other very well. So that is what Jenny said, most chinese people speak standard Mandarin nowadays.
Posted on: Regional Accents Part I
April 22, 2008 at 12:27 PMChangye and kimlytton, According to the lesson, the first one is北方女人,the second one is 台湾男人 and the third one is上海女人. Vduncan, I am from Fujian Province, and the second one , I mean the taiwanese's accent is kindof familiar with South Fujian accent, called闽南语min3nan2yu3. Fujian Province is one of the most complicated accents area in China. There are about 6 accents area in Fujian province. 福州话、闽南话、客家话、莆田话、永安话、建瓯话。The most influenced one is 闽南话. And In Chinatown, you will hear most chinese people speak 福州话fuzhouhua. I think it will be better for you to tell the difference if there are some long conversations in different accents. I guess Jenny and John are preparing the Regional Accents2, hope we can hear some more dialog then.
Posted on: Fruit Salad
April 20, 2008 at 8:08 AMOh, Ken,你的敬业精神值得敬佩。Hope you can feel better soon!
Posted on: Crosstalk and Labor Day Holiday
May 3, 2008 at 1:06 PMha, rjberki, good question. If I have not listen to Richard speaking English before, just listen to Richard speaking Chinese, I guess I can not tell that he is a foreigner.^_^ And about the "accent", I guess Richard may learn Chinese in Beijing for some years.