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nicolas
Posted on: Finding the Teacher
October 12, 2007 at 12:41 AM@deathblade13 you may want to listen to that podcast http://chinesepod.com/extra/qing-wen-%e4%bd%a0%e5%a5%bd-n%c7%90h%c7%8eo-is-a-many-splendored-thing A Chinese man years ago... + my Chinese friend's blunt answer ... may not be that common so. I'll check with other locals.
Posted on: Finding the Teacher
October 11, 2007 at 6:37 AMA Chinese young lady told me today that Chinese people never greet, salute or inquire about themselves saying 怎么样 She said that Chinese people may occasionaly say 你最近怎么样 or 你好吗 So it is wrong also to say that Chinese people never say 你好吗
Posted on: Wang Wei's Diary: Food and Girls
October 9, 2007 at 11:50 PMMy bet is that 我一直看她 has a romantic or obsessive connotation that 我总是看她 doesn't have. I think it's a safe bet as native speakers usually say things the proper way.
Posted on: Finding the Teacher
October 9, 2007 at 9:43 PMIMHO - writing characters on paper is fun and kind of relaxing. Writing on a Pocket Pc/Palm with a stylet is a very good exercise as the pinyin will only appear if you have drawn the character properly.
Posted on: Getting Reimbursed
October 9, 2007 at 4:53 AM@sputnik, that's why the Chinesepod dictionary is great and deserves more publicity as you can find in it definitions that you won't find in academic dictionaries. for example, see 秀 translated as "show" + explanations in : http://chinesepod.com/learnchinese/finding-live-music/discussion
Posted on: Finding Live Music
October 8, 2007 at 5:48 AMI was searching for 秀[xiù] in the CPod Dictionary Unique to be able to find: examples definitions which are not in other dictionaries, but still are valid such as 秀[xiù]= show, derived from english explanations the CPod dictionary is really fantastic ! it's really unique !
Posted on: Motivational Speaker
October 8, 2007 at 2:36 AMI wonder that people pay or spend time to listen to that piece of crap
Posted on: Too Fat
October 3, 2007 at 9:16 AMlunetta, I had the same problem on another lesson. If you clear your cash (in Firefox:tools/options/privacy/cache), the pb will be solved. I reported this small bug to support.
Posted on: Getting Reimbursed
October 2, 2007 at 1:27 PMhehe, wildayks ! Looks like it's not so easy to skip reading comments, even when they are irrelevant or a bit boring...
Posted on: Beyond Or: Another Use of 还是 (háishi)
October 17, 2007 at 6:16 AMmaybe the difference between 还 是 [hái shì] and 或 者 [huò zhě] could have been added to this QW as it probably needs not more than two minutes to explain ... or two lines in this thread.