User Comments - jckeith

Posted on: Minor Changes, Virtual School, and a Lefty in the Studio

Just to clarify, this was the case when my wife was in school in China. I guess it hasn't changed.

Posted on: Minor Changes, Virtual School, and a Lefty in the Studio

If I recall correctly, left-handers are required to write with their right hands in school. I'm not sure if there's a practical reason behind that; as a lefty, I have no problems writing 汉字 left-handed.

Posted on: Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

We use it the same way in American English. Small world :)

Posted on: What's Your Name?

Those both look like errors to me. It seems that (B) would be the correct answer for the first sentence. The second sentence appears to be just plain wrong; none of those answers would fit.

Also, I took a look at the Simplified Hanzi version of those exercises, and the sentences are correct there. The first one is 我是美国人。____? (wo3 shi4 mei3guo2ren2.___), so 你呢 (ni3 ne) would be correct. The second is 我很好。___? (wo3 hen3 hao3. _____?), so 你 (ni3) would be correct. So it looks like the pinyin version has a couple of errors.

Posted on: Having One's Nails Done

It sounds correct to me.

Posted on: Being Seated in a Restaurant

romanticon,

This might be one of those cases where it helps to translate the sentence literally to yourself. In English, it would be "this is what?" (zhè shì shén me). You would never say "this what?" (zhè ge shén me). So in this sentence, 是 (shì) corresponds to "is."

Posted on: What's up?

Using 你呢 (nǐ ne) instead would be perfectly fine in that case. Don't burn those textbooks just yet ;)

Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 4: Communication in the Office

tex, you used 想 instead of 像。我觉得应该是：“她长得很像成龙” 或者 “她看起来像成龙”。

Posted on: Kaixin Wang Farm Thieves

I use Facebook but I couldn't care less about the stupid apps such as Farmville. I prefer to play real video games :)

Posted on: Learn From Failure: Joe Constanty

You are a great teacher. What are you doing pandering to the new religion in China (Business)?

I don't care about Mr. Constanty's get-rich ventures.

Some of us do care about the subject.