User Comments - pauley

Posted on: Have you bought your Shanghai Expo ticket?

大家说的人太多会来上海看看世博会我害怕

Posted on: Finishing Work for the Weekend

thanks connie....i like that phrase budebu.....that will be really handy for my everyday chinese..我不得不学中话应为我老婆不会说英语

Posted on: Finishing Work for the Weekend

好象中国人都有加班每星期我老婆有加班她没有选择每星期六天上班我不喜欢在周末工作

It seems  chinese all work overtime and have no choice about working overtime..i like to have weekends free

Posted on: Slippery Ground

unable to download lesson audio....gets to 23% and stops....

Posted on: The Left-handed Child

baba

i feel people would look at me all the time if i ate with my left hand....it is not just china ..a couple of years ago an indian in dubai got angry at me for giving him money with my left hand,,,,

and yeah ..try using chopsticks with your left hand and you will know that it aint easy to change hands to do some things..most right handed people from western countries struggle with chopsticks so i am rightfully proud of my chopstick use which is according to chinese very good,,,,i have even heard people say i was zhong guo tong on seeing my chopstick ability...a chopstick master...even plastic chopsticks,,but if i really want to show i am zhong guo tong i like going to a xiao long bao restaurant and eating them in true chinese way...sucking the juice out of the bao and then eating them with my chopstick in one motion...truly a chopstick master

Posted on: The Left-handed Child

i am left handed and most places in china peoples initial reaction is to laugh when i go to write something..it is something you get used to but it is very bad manners in my eyes to laugh at someone for being different ,,,the probel of being a leftie is you by habit like to pick up things in you left hand and offer things to people with your left hand and in many countries this is seen as impolite...i am very aware of this and am constantly watchful of myself to use my right hand more...also i worked for along time with power tools etc and it was a real problem using drills as they are right handed design and i was always accidently hitting the lock on switch and not able to control turning tools on and off....the thing i am most proud of is my skill at using chopsticks right handed...i take great pridei n that..to get that skill didnt come easy...and i coldnt imagine living in china eating with your left hand....because i use both hands alot to do different things you could say i use both sides of my brain more so than others...only joking...lfties forever

Posted on: Western Zodiac

如果我要相信得星坐我不会相信我的中国数我相信我控制我人格所以我不相信都系通

if i want to believe in one system i cant believe in the other...i dont believe in either..i control my personality

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

in aussie english a person who is referred to as a dinosaur is a person who is out of touch with the modern era...my children sometimes refer to me this way.....or in the work place a person who is a dinosaur has usually worked in a place for a long time and not up with modern methods..

Posted on: Can't Get to Sleep

我经常打呼当我睡了我老婆睡不着他总是醒醒我那没人睡觉好

i often snore when i sleep

my wife cant sleep

she always wakesme

then no noe gets a good sleep

Are these sentences correct

Posted on: Office Lunch Options

west of lanzhou..you are definetely out in the sticks.....must be cold too....i have only been as far west as xining in qinghai...or maybe zhonglei in ningxia...but i loved it out that way..beautiful country and people were great...