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light487
Posted on: Do you have...?
April 12, 2008 at 3:03 AMIn the exercises I have noticed that some extra characters appear, for example: Fill in the blanks 7. 你______笔吗？ I know the first character is Ni3 because of other lessons and through my study of characters in general, however there is no reference to this character anywhere else in this lesson. It is not in the expansion section where you would logically think it would be if it was not in the main areas of the lesson material. I only bring this up because I have seen this in other Newbie lessons. It can be quite discouraging to have characters that you don't understand in the "test" exercises because you think at first that you have missed something or not understood. Then after looking through all the material you realise that it was never in the lesson to start with. This is quite frustrating and annoying to be honest. If you are going to put a character, or the pinyin representation, in to an exercise I feel that you should include it in the notes somewhere.. like in the expansion text for example.
Posted on: Do you have...?
April 12, 2008 at 2:47 AMDid you understand my joke? May be I should put it in characters to make it more obvious? 有沒有美乃滋酱 Yes? :) haha..
Posted on: Do you have...?
April 12, 2008 at 2:37 AMyou3 mei2you3 mei3 nai3 zi1 jiang4? haha.. I couldn't resist! :) Just curious which is more common when asking if someone has something? ni3 you3 ke3le4 ma? or you3 mei2you3 ke3le4?
Posted on: Choosing a Chinese Name and Safety
April 12, 2008 at 2:20 AMI actually found a way to write it that has a little coolness to it and all that stuff that I wanted. I wrote it as 璐刻 in my bio. The first character is pronounced lu4 and the second ke4 but the meaning is a lot different than the obvious meaning of the original lu` ke` I had before. As far as I can make out, the first character here means jade and the second means "to carve" or "carving".. so.. unless I have grossly misunderstood the characters.. I could make my name mean Jade Carving.. which is kind of cool.. and as auntie68 pointed out, using the first character 璐 makes it more obvious that I am expressing my name, rather than a word or phrase.
Posted on: Superstitions and Business Trip Tales
April 11, 2008 at 12:01 PM他戴上绿帽 ? :)
Posted on: What's Your Name?
April 10, 2008 at 3:27 AMfarrago1979 says "McNaughten, William. 2005. Reading and Writing Chinese: Simplified Character Edition. Tuttle Language Library (ISBN 0-8048-3509-8)." I bought this book today. It was very cheap in comparison to other books. It looks quite comprehensive.. I'm at a point with my learning where I need to start learning some characters and I thank you for your suggestion.
Posted on: Train to Beijing
April 10, 2008 at 3:24 AMAre you scared of being squashed on train Jenny? Or is it as goulniky said? I think he was joking around, yes?
Posted on: Train to Beijing
April 9, 2008 at 11:59 AMhehe.. ni3 fei1 wen2dao4 bu4ke3!! :)
Posted on: Train to Beijing
April 9, 2008 at 11:53 AMahh you force me to go and look up characters? :p 的 - de5 - possessive, adjectival suffix 屁 - pi4 - break wind; fart; buttocks 股 - gu3 - thighs, haunches, rump; share HAHAHA!! Are you serious? Is that what she is scared about? I think you are just joking, ba..? I have to listen to last bit of lesson again now to see if I hear these 3 words.. :)
Posted on: Do you have...?
April 12, 2008 at 8:04 AMOh so it is.. I didn't see it the first time I looked through the expansion stuff. I'm really sorry.. :( I just couldn't see it there, obviously, otherwise I wouldn't have posted that suggestion. :) It could have been because the characters I see here are so small and hard to read, and also because I a still very very new to reading the characters. :) In any case: 对不起