Archive for the ‘Vocabulary’ Category
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
It's all thanks to Jenny at Chinesepod, in the upper intermediate lesson called Group Photo. She and John go off on a little tangent talking about "làngfèi gǎnqíng" 浪费感情
and then Jenny wants to get back back to their previous topic, which is the dialog they just listened to.
At 7:39 ...
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
This might not be important if you live outside of China, but for us foreigners in China, it's often difficult to find technical medical terms or the name of a medicine we want to buy. However, I've recently had a little success in this area and thought I'd share ...
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
A few foreigners in China have commented to me that it seems like everyone has the same name: "xiao." Actually, that's a kind of term of endearment or perhaps role-defining prefix that just means "small" or "young." Here's how it works:
Say there's a young man named Wáng ...
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