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wolson
Posted on: Preparing for the Heat
January 11, 2008 at 7:17 PMivy0, Changge above gave you an example of minus temperatures: You use the phrase (ling2 xia4) 零下 before the number to indicate minus temperatures. For example, in Montana where I grew up, it isn't winter until it is -40 below: 零下四十度 在蒙大拿州，这不是冬天直到零下40度是！
Posted on: Preparing for the Heat
January 11, 2008 at 7:02 PM两年以前六月份，西安有最热天气。最热的天午饭，我跟我的朋友吃火锅！外边热里边热！ http://www.eng.utoledo.edu/~wolson/huoguo.JPG
Posted on: The Scene of the Accident
January 5, 2008 at 3:10 PMThis was a good lesson but a bit too much in the continous stream. This lesson could be toned down a bit and perhaps repeated at the Elementary level or Intermediate level with better effect. Still this is an important topic that one is certainly going to experience in a city in China. While I personally have not been involved in an accident in China, I have seen several. Thus this is needed language!
Posted on: The Final Jizhou Pieces
January 5, 2008 at 2:41 PM很有意思
Posted on: You talking about me?
January 3, 2008 at 7:03 PMI don't know the origins of General Tso's Chicken but it certainly was not invented in 1974 as the article RJBerki cites states. I remember eating this dish long before that. Nice story but it does not hold up to the truth!
Posted on: Ordering Chinese Take-out
January 2, 2008 at 4:51 PMA most important lesson for me! I will be in China for a few weeks in the Spring and I definitely will want to know how to order take-out! 很有营养又很有意思
Posted on: Before Noon, After Noon
January 2, 2008 at 4:21 PMThis is probably one of the more valauable lessons for a Newbie to learn. You might add, expressions of time generally are placed before the verb phrase of a Chinese sentance. I think most often time is expressed first in a sentance. So it is important for someone learning Chinese to recognize this.
Posted on: Dorm Life: Late For Class
December 30, 2007 at 5:18 PMHollymorrow, I have downloaded almost al of the Newbie, Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced to my Ipod. ( I am probably an Intermediate learner although I still find things in the Newbie series that I did not know. Of course, who would know 放屁, fang4pi4, from classroom CHinese? I used the 1st method that RJBerki described. There are a couple of things that you may need to watch for: 1) The first half or so lessons in each catory came down as HTML files... I simply changed the file extension to .mp3 and everything worked fine. 2) a number of files came down without the header information that gives the lesson number, genre, etc. I had to enter this information manually in the Itunes software.
Posted on: Getting Water Delivered
December 30, 2007 at 4:16 PMAgain, I am in the future! Oh, it is so nice to be a space child! :)
Posted on: To Finish Something Off: Verb 好 (hǎo)
January 15, 2008 at 12:58 AM我还没学好了！