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Posted on: #42
March 22, 2008 at 8:21 PMBoran--Thanks. I'm going to save some of those dialogue transcripts now. Thanks again.
Posted on: #42
March 21, 2008 at 6:03 PMOh, and another thing. Since don't see movies, I haven't participated in Movie Madness until recently. However, like the mad reader I am, I've read most of the comments and I think I remember there was something about Clay posting the dialogue after the contest ended. Dui bu dui? Is this the mp3 of the dialogue or a transcript? If this ever did happen, where do I find said transcript? Also, how do you choose the winner? It used to be the first entry that arrived in someone's mailbox, no? But then, I thought the selection process changed to allow more people to participate. Dui bu dui? So, basically, how does this thing work?
Posted on: #42
March 21, 2008 at 5:55 PMI actually saw this movie in a theater--a revival house--when I was in college--before my then-boyfriend figured out I don't like to watch movies. Especially in a theater. Fortunately for all, you don't need to have seen the movie to recognize the sound bite.
Posted on: Knitting a Scarf
March 21, 2008 at 1:23 AMOh, also, is it OK if I post links to sites with lexicons of swear words?
Posted on: Knitting a Scarf
March 21, 2008 at 1:22 AMFirst, if CPod does cooking or eating lessons, I'd like to request they be at the intermediate level so more of us could participate and learn. This goes double for Harry Potter--intermediate PLEEEEZE. Advanced intermediate, maybe, but not advanced, I beg you. Also, how about a topic on the details of gong fu tea--what happens, what each person does, how and when? Etiquette? Or a lesson on the springtime arrival of new tea--how to tell if a merchant knows what they're doing; how to tell if the tea is really the fresh vintage; the best places to taste new tea, etc? Or a lesson on returning items to stores--either mis-sized, distressed, tampered with or whatever? Or a lesson on buying ready-made clothes? E.g. no matter how careful I am, and how much I consult sales people, every blouse or jacket I've bought in China is too tight in the shoulders. (I'm NOT built like a stevadore, either.) Don't Chinese women move their arms around as they gesture? Or a lesson on learning how to do Chinese folk arts such as paper cutting, paper folding, etc? Or a follow-up adopting from China lesson on keeping up with your Chinese granddaughter? (Fortunately, my Chinese is still way better than hers, but she's just seven.) Or, maybe the lesson should be what you need to give to your Chinese daughters so they feel, in this case, American or Canadian but still feel a part of China. Or some history lessons? Far enough back so you don't step on sensitive political toes, but covering historic events that explain aspects of China's cultures and traditions. E.g. my Chinese teacher and I often discuss the idea that the Jews came from the area of Xin Jiang--or at least one strain of them did. Or we skip ahead to 15th (?) century Kaifeng (a Chinese-Jewish city, I gather)? Or a lesson on eating at non-Chinese restaurants in China--Japanese, Korean, etc? Vocab, etiquette, how to find them (are there ethnic restaurants in Chinese big cities? I'll stop now.
Posted on: Equestrian
February 21, 2008 at 1:15 AMGreat blurb!
Posted on: Valentine's Day
February 15, 2008 at 2:13 AMI like the second illustration for this lesson much better than the first. Do you often change images after you post the lesson?
Posted on: Group Photo
January 29, 2008 at 12:59 AMAbout rabbit ears on the kid in frontof you in grade school--we in Chicago believed we were making horns of the devil (and, when we were older, the cuckold) sign. As for feng1, I have had Mandarin teachers teache me guo yu (Taiwan) and putonghua (China), and I thought both were pronouncing feng, meng, teng so that the E was halfway between eh and aw. Then I realized they're pronouncing that sound as fehng, mehng, tehng. Listen to it. It's not e/o; it's eh/uh with the emphasis on the eh. At least that's the way it sounds to my California ear.
Posted on: Before Noon, After Noon
January 2, 2008 at 1:36 AMDitto. Since my lessons come over the telephone, my teacher can't use hand gestures to explain meanings. For the longest time, she reassured me that I would understand her if only I could see her hands,.Don't ask me about video conferencing--she is diannao mang (computer-blind).
Posted on: Baseball
March 25, 2008 at 5:56 PMLongdehua--I think we should rephrase your answer to casie. The batter doesn't need to hit the ball three times in a turn. She/he, however, only gets three tries to hit/bat the ball far away from home base, also called the plate. If the batter hits the ball into the playing field, that's all she/he needs. The batter doesn't have to go back during the same turn and do it two more times. When you get a turn to bat (which means to try to hit the ball), it's called an "at bat"--i.e. you're at bat. You don't need to hit the ball The pitcher (the guy or gal throwing the ball to you, will give you three chances to hit the ball. If you try (swing the bat at the ball) but miss the ball three times, you're out, meaning you've used up your turn and you're "out." As in out of luck, temporarily out of the game (until your turn comes up again). This explanation is complicated because there are balls and fouls as well as strikes, but they don't figure in this expression and my explanation is long enough already. Three stri8kes and you're out means you tried three times and you don't get any more tries; you failed.