User Comments - luobinzhenmei

Posted on: Calling People Names

Thank you Davidxuzhou. Another great Poddie comes through for the rest of us.

Ai Ya. I'm going to be in Shanghai in 10 days and decided to tackle the Shanghaiese lessons. Although I can go through an intermediate Mandarin lesson in about an hour, it's taken me two days to get to lesson two of Shanghaiese, and I'm only confident I can say "g'zeh mahzih jidi a" so someone would understand it.

I'm going to spend lots of time on the airplane reciting lines. Well, what else is there to do for 13+ hours?

Posted on: Transportation Card

We use the same card each year for a month, so if there is an expiration date, 失效日期 shi1xiao4 ri4qi1, it is longer than a year (or 11 months?). Same with our 充值卡.

Posted on: Ordering Food for the Group

It may be that since China is a "food culture" as my Chinese friends remind me, that real China hands think of food more than anything.

Your suggestion about contruction cranes and sewer systems is a good one. I really appreciate the lessons on apartment hunting and renovating. But I wouldn't replace the food lessons.

I do love that in Chinese TV series and movies, people always talk around food, even the Wuxia movies are filled with drinking and eating scenes, and in one comedy (out of Singapore) the enemies had a fight scene that involved cooking fish and slicing in wushu style while it was in the air above the pan. The faster cook won.

In US movies most conversations are on the street or around desks There isn't enough food.

Posted on: Renting an Apartment through an Agent, 2

每年我们去上海住一个月。我们上网找到中介。 我们喜欢每年住在不同的地方， 每年中介找到公寓--埔西，静安，徐家汇。 大概我们花太多钱，租一年多一定便宜一点， 可是没有麻烦， 不辛苦。

当然有问题。  去年租公寓的厨房没有电饭煲。我们抱怨。公寓经理说

这儿的公寓都没有电饭煲。我们不相信，然后读公寓广告：Modern European Kitchen.  糟了。 欧洲人不必用电饭煲！

Posted on: Adjusting the Temperature

Great lesson. Now we need a lesson on the directions on washing machines (and rice cookers). We were relieved to see the term 标准 (biao1zhun3, standard) and we only use that setting, but I suspect some of the other settings might be better for our clothes. Of course, we could have asked, but we don't want to lose face :)

(As if we don't lose face every time we open our mouths.)

Posted on: A New Jug for the Water Cooler

For Jenny Zhu: 一桶牛奶: http://is.gd/cqHSV

Commonly seen in areas with dairy farms. 40 liters is typical. 很重!

Posted on: Shanghai Expo Pavilions

We were planning on getting to Shanghai at the tail end of the Expo--October 22. Is that too late? Will all the "prime time" tickets be sold then? When in October is it "normal time"?

As for the "good for little kids" and "like Disney World" aspects of the Expo, that only encourages us more. A city whose landmark architecture is a pink ball, and has purple lights on the highway overpasses, gives us the giggles every time we see it. We are going to love the Expo.

Posted on: An Introduction!

Thank you. We once had a lesson in counting in Shanghainese from some little old ladies waiting with us on an interminable line for the Pearl Tower. We'll never bother with the Pearl Tower again, but we loved waiting on line with them.

Of course we forgot it all without a chance to go over it and use it. So thank you in advance, Chinesepod.

Posted on: An Introduction!

How do you say "Qing Wen?" in Shanghainese?

Posted on: An Introduction!

We are really looking forward to these lessons, and then using as much as we learn when we get to Shanghai next November.  To us, Shanghainese sounds more Japanese than Mandarin when heard from a distance.  It is so fast and quick.

And there are English sound-alikes?  We can't wait.