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xiao_liang

Posted on: Progress Tracking and Grammar Guide
June 7, 2010 at 8:09 AM

Hehe, mostly photos of himself. That's a guy not lacking in self-confidence eh? :-)

Posted on: Progress Tracking and Grammar Guide
June 7, 2010 at 7:36 AM

Surely it's time for a new amazing-race based avatar! And a picture or two in the pictures thread? :-)

http://chinesepod.com/community/conversations/post/8720

Posted on: Progress Tracking and Grammar Guide
June 6, 2010 at 6:17 PM

Hooray, Sarah is back! When can we see you on the telly (or internet) Sarah? Did you have a good time? :)

Posted on: A Tour of the Office
May 28, 2010 at 10:11 PM

Gotcha, it's both.

Posted on: A Tour of the Office
May 28, 2010 at 11:28 AM

I did check with her last night, and her response was, "WHAT? Who told you that 浴室 meant bathhouse?!"

Anyway, no point arguing about it, and I don't need to see your extensive collection of not at all dodgy photos of bathhouses ;-)

Posted on: Pinyin Section 15
May 28, 2010 at 10:33 AM

You know what, this was posted last September, but it's genius! I've finally worked out how to say ü !

Thanks Chris, if you're still around!

Posted on: A Tour of the Office
May 28, 2010 at 8:59 AM

She grew up in a perfectly normal city flat in Guangzhou. I think we've probably run up against a city/country word difference. Kind of interesting.

Posted on: A Tour of the Office
May 27, 2010 at 7:35 PM

Aha. Sorry Bodawei, but having thanked you, I now have to disagree with you!

I checked with she who must be obeyed (ok, I went to berate her for letting me have the wrong word on my door for months), and she said that 浴室 is a completely normal word to refer to your own bathroom. 洗手间 is a more formal way - for example, you might use it to ask someone if you can visit a bathroom in their office (like in this dialogue).

Posted on: A Tour of the Office
May 27, 2010 at 2:58 PM

Ah, ok, thanks Bodawei. A while ago I made little signs in chinese for a bunch of stuff and stuck them all over my house to help me learn the names of common things. Amusingly I've had 浴室 on my bathroom door for the last month or so.

Thankfully, haven't had any customers :-p

Posted on: A Tour of the Office
May 27, 2010 at 2:02 PM

What's the difference between a 浴室 and a 洗手间?