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henning
Posted on: Saved by the Gong: Music Class
April 27, 2009 at 5:12 PMzhenlijiang,
this is what I got from the "dictionary of last resort" (Google):
芬克 or
疯克
Posted on: Boston
April 24, 2009 at 7:14 AMWe should discuss this UI related stuff at another place.
好像有点儿跑题了
Posted on: What do Foreigners Like?
April 23, 2009 at 12:46 PMchanelle,
what you heard was a vulgar term for a primary female sexual characteristic (第一性徵 / dìyīxìngzhēng).
It is pronounced bī and its character is comprised of the character for corpse/body with the character for cave in it. It is rather widespread and preferably used in combination with 傻 (shǎ / stupid) as an insult.
Hope that this post doesn't get me banned ;)
Posted on: Boston
April 23, 2009 at 7:32 AMMike, Interesting.
for me it is the exact opposite. It is the UI level that has been visited by Aliens, mysterious kipnappings and drug dealers. Conversely, the Advanced level is more serious with its elaborations on politics, culture, and economics (important, but more boring). Sometimes UI is harder for me to follow than Advanced - the lower amount of Chengyus is overcompensated by much more idiomatic stuff...
Let's see how the new Advanced series develops. I am not yet captivated by an Indiana Jones who is still living at his mother's home, crying "I will never leave you, Mommy!".
Regarding the mix: Exactly. I get a lot from everything in between Intermediate and Advanced (Media however often just humbles me...).
Intermediate is much more grammar heavy than UI and goes more into details (Too bad that Advanced is more vocab than grammar driven - lots of more advanced function words and structures to cover and compare).
I see this in my language point collection. For "Boston" I had again 11 entries - more than on the UI "Super Babies" with only 8 entries (and some of those are at the border of not being considered). Advanced doesn't appear in my collection as it would only consist of phrases.
Posted on: Bangkok
April 18, 2009 at 4:11 PMpreludesnocturnes,
there is a CPod lesson about that 嘛 called Ending your sentence with 嘛 （ma)
Posted on: The Magic Word 把
April 18, 2009 at 7:34 AMzhenlijiang,
I don't have a finished Top-10-list, but here are my candidates:
- The 是...的 (Shì...de) Pattern
- The Double 了 (le) phenomenon (and in fact the rest of the 了-series)
- Do you remember
- Two iffy-words
- Dropping and losing
- The Attitude Pattern (yǒu shénme... 有什么...)
-You Must Listen to this Episode - 非...不可 (fēi...bù kě)
- I Can/Can't Afford it (...得起 & ...不起） [I would love to see more of those complement shows...]
- The 啊 啦 嘛...series
- Often: Using 常常，经常，通常 (chángcháng, jīngcháng, tōngcháng) [there should be a part two, though with all the rest]
Posted on: The Magic Word 把
April 18, 2009 at 6:53 AMbababardwan
Sherpa = 夏尔巴人 (xià ěr bā rén)
By the way: is it coincidence that you have three 把 in your name?
Posted on: The Magic Word 把
April 18, 2009 at 6:50 AMExcellent.
This was a truely missing link. Definately has replay value. Instantaneously made it to the list of the 5 most important QWs.
Posted on: 谋杀案
April 15, 2009 at 6:39 AMPete & Braden - thanks a lot! Now my structural integrety is in the green again.
Let me offer you the Mandarin for Jeffries Tube as a small "thank you":
杰佛瑞斯管道 or short J管
:)
Posted on: How Far Away are You From Understanding 离？
April 29, 2009 at 5:01 AMeran,
let me try adding another angle to the difference.
从 desribes a direction (coming from), a vector
离 describes a distance (distance from), a scalar
When looking at it, I am surprised that English and German don't have that distinction - both concepts are described with the same preposition (from, von).