User Comments - zhenlijiang
zhenlijiang
Posted on: Playing Ice Hockey
January 8, 2011 at 10:10 AMYou wouldn't ask your wife even?
This one, and there's at least one other that I can think of. I think it's got something to do with fierce determination on the government's part. But I also think the Chinese who react so forcefully re Taiwan may be primed to do so particularly when speaking with Americans, and Japanese, because they come into contact with so many of us who are (irritatingly, to them) unaware that this sensitive issue even exists, cheerfully referring to Taiwan as a country in their presence.
Posted on: A Flat Bicycle Tire
January 7, 2011 at 2:10 AM不用 feel silly，不用客气！
Posted on: A Flat Bicycle Tire
January 6, 2011 at 10:29 PMChange of state--something that was, is now gone.
Posted on: Practicing Kung Fu
January 6, 2011 at 10:06 PMHi Trevor, yes 先生（せんせい） sensei. I know nothing about the karate world and customs, but I'm sure this applies there too--you can't use sensei to refer to yourself. The only exception I can think of is if you're speaking with small children and telling them you're a teacher. It's an honorific other people use to refer to or address you (we also address all kinds of doctors, and lawyers and certain other professionals by it). My J-C dictionary tells me 先生 in Chinese formerly used to be the word for "teacher", which has since been replaced by 老师 lǎoshī. You can use laoshi to refer to yourself unlike sensei. You can say 我是小学老师。wǒ shì xiǎoxué lǎoshī I'm an elementary school teacher.
Aiyo, now you have to go break it to puffed-up 先生 (xiānsheng) that he's using Sensei wrong, and watch him deflate. Actually there ought to be an appropriate title he could use for such certificates, I'm just not sure what it would be, knowing nothing about karate.
Posted on: Merry Christmas!
January 5, 2011 at 8:58 AM有可能是他尴尬不愿意在大众面前谈私事哦。如果他也很害羞，那你这样永远不会收到回信吧。
嗯，反正只好听其自然。今后我少管闲事！
Posted on: Merry Christmas!
January 5, 2011 at 6:11 AM在东亚一般来说，女孩子害羞确实是令人喜欢的优点。
我从来没有听到过啊，发伊妹儿给某人算是个“色”行为！怎么会呢？
Posted on: Playing Ice Hockey
January 5, 2011 at 5:36 AMI asked a guide who was showing us around Suzhou where Wang Leehom is from (this is how little I knew about anything Chinese in those days), because we were seeing his face all over the place, on magazine covers and in ads and Wahaha mineral water labels etc etc. Her eyes flashed and she said, forcefully (yes, forcefully indeed.) through her teeth, "China". We were like (ignorant), well yeah of course we know he's Chinese, so where in China? She fairly growled at us, "Taiwan". So then we understood (and only later did we get it that he was actually raised in the US, which is really more to the point). This was an otherwise pallid, unenthusiastic kind of girl, this guide, not a people person and not too fond of talking. I do hope she's since found a different career.
Posted on: Merry Christmas!
January 3, 2011 at 10:17 AM直接发 email 给他也可以吧！
Posted on: 无性婚姻
January 3, 2011 at 9:28 AMA year and a half later. The latest transcript draft has been posted here.
Any feedback or help would be greatly appreciated!
Posted on: What do Foreigners Like?
January 9, 2011 at 10:47 AMWhat do you mean? He has been. For over 6 years now, surviving in China.