User Comments - henning
henning
Posted on: In-Laws and Drinking
September 12, 2007 at 2:21 AMTaiPan, although this is my 8th or 9th trip to China, I haven't been around much. I saw Beijing (well, every visit), QingDao, and LianYunGang. Almost every city can turn highly interesting if you meet local people there.
Posted on: 世界记录
September 11, 2007 at 11:39 AM蓝天。 不可思议的。 你跟Bazza赶不上。 :P
Posted on: 你好 (Nǐhǎo) is a Many-Splendored Thing
September 11, 2007 at 3:03 AMnicolas, I often heard 劳驾 (láojià) in those kind of situations.
Posted on: In-Laws and Drinking
September 10, 2007 at 11:07 PMTaiPan, a real masseur. The kind that does massages. With a medical background (with a slight *Chinese medicine* touch to it). A strong, middle-aged man who's favourite move seems to be to almost rip the head from the body to loosen up the spine...
Posted on: More or less? 多 (duō) and 少 (shǎo)
September 10, 2007 at 5:31 AMOne of the first dialogues I carried out in Chinese went like that: Me: 我吃饱了。 Mother-in-law: 不好吃吗? Me: 好吃! Father-in-law: 好吃，多吃!!!
Posted on: In-Laws and Drinking
September 9, 2007 at 8:12 AMFortunatelly my elder son began to shout like crazy: http://chinesepod.com/learnchinese/%e8%87%aa%e9%97%ad%e7%97%87/ Now I have some time to soner up. Dinner approaches.
Posted on: In-Laws and Drinking
September 9, 2007 at 7:48 AMI just had lunch with my family, a befriended masseur& the owner of the restaurant we dined in. What once again saved my life: 我是德国人。 给我面子。 喝啤酒吧。 What definately did not help: 你们是不是男子汉？ 赶不上吗？ Tipsy: Henning
Posted on: In-Laws and Drinking
September 8, 2007 at 7:56 AMThere seem to be 2 main types of chinese women: Those who act as desribed in the podcast. And those who drink baijiu like water. I even met a Chinese woman who has been trained by her parents to drink. As a child. To become a successful business professional once. Freightening. There are a few examples of a golden middle way, though.
Posted on: How do you take your coffee?
September 8, 2007 at 7:41 AMgoulnik, exactly. That is the difference between well-intended layman teaching and professional one. Conversations where you are in interrupted every other sentence and digress into tone repetition exercises or even worse discussions and speculations of word usage, can b ecome frustrating to the point of being humilating. Subtle reprasing is the way to go.
Posted on: Death by Ninja
September 12, 2007 at 2:39 AMI hope Peter wakes up from this strange nightmare. He still hasn't fulfilled his mission. He still needs to hit on that married business woman called Lili and turn her life into a total mess.