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Forum: Speaking and Listening 5th October 2006, 02:33 PM

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Taiwanese Mandarin to Chinese Mandarin

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Posted By jinjin


now that I'm in BJ, my taiwanese accent is pretty...

now that I'm in BJ, my taiwanese accent is pretty noticeable. I've had professors ask me if I was
born in Taiwan b/c I speak mandarin like I grew up there and I am an ESL (can you use ESL as a
noun?...



Forum: Speaking and Listening 12th August 2006, 08:40 AM

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Taiwanese Mandarin to Chinese Mandarin

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I'm not sure what you mean by "non-standard...

I'm not sure what you mean by "non-standard mandarin." I was taught mandarin by my parents and at
Chinese School in the U.S. I understand my relatives in Taiwan perfectly (and they me) and I do
fine...



Forum: Speaking and Listening 11th August 2006, 11:49 PM

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Taiwanese Mandarin to Chinese Mandarin

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Taiwanese Mandarin to Chinese Mandarin

Hi, I grew up learning Taiwanese Mandarin (phrases such as mom "ma ma" are both sound one where as
I think in China they pronounce the second ma with a dot above it or something). But simple
things...



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Forum: Speaking and Listening 10th August 2007, 06:36 PM

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speakgoodchinese

Views: 6,268

Posted By imron


Re: speakgoodchinese

If that's the case, you might also want to try using AppLocale
(http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/apploc.mspx), which should achieve the same results
without needing to restart your machine,...



Forum: Speaking and Listening 6th August 2007, 10:47 PM

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speakgoodchinese

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Re: speakgoodchinese

See, that didn't take too long.



Forum: Speaking and Listening 6th August 2007, 10:43 PM

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speakgoodchinese

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Re: speakgoodchinese

Actually, if someone wants to try Linux this distribution is going to be one of the easiest to
take for a spin, and presumably the problem your software has with Ubuntu will be solved at some
point.



Forum: Speaking and Listening 6th August 2007, 09:23 PM

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speakgoodchinese

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Re: speakgoodchinese

There's a little button in between the picture and the # that looks like a speech bubble that will
add quote tags to any piece of selected text. Alternatively, you can add them yourself using [...



Forum: Speaking and Listening 6th August 2007, 09:00 PM

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speakgoodchinese

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Re: speakgoodchinese

If you want to try Linux, try downloading one of the Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/) live cds. Pop
in the CD and reboot and it will load up into Linux (assuming you have enabled your computer to...



Forum: Speaking and Listening 5th August 2007, 03:51 PM

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speakgoodchinese

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Re: speakgoodchinese

If you place the downloaded shell32.dll in the same directory as the program you want to run (i.e.
in this case sgc), it will load that version of the dll instead of the one in the windows
directory....



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Forum: Chinese Tattoos, Chinese Names and Quick Translations 8th May 2008, 10:46 PM

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translation please!

Views: 143

Posted By skylee


Re: translation please!

Looks like it's from the lyrics of a song "Wish me happy birthday" (but some lines are missing)

yi gen ren zuo zai kong de bao xiang li mian
一個人坐在空的包廂裏面

yan lei bu neng liu guo shi er dian...



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Forum: Chinese Tattoos, Chinese Names and Quick Translations 23rd May 2008, 02:47 PM

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Poker Betting Terms

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Posted By imron


回复: Poker Betting Terms

A google search for 德州扑克术语
(http://www.google.com/search?q=%E5%BE%B7%E5%B7%9E%E6%89%91%E5%85%8B%E6%9C%AF%E8%AF%AD) returns
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Forum: Grammar and Vocabulary 10th May 2008, 01:30 PM

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Modal Verbs 会 and 能 vs. Resultative Suffix 得了 and 不了

Views: 247

Posted By roddy


Re: Modal Verbs 会 and 能 vs. Resultative Suffix 得了 and 不了

I wouldn't want to swear on this in a court of law, but having read the examples and thought about
it for twenty seconds, I'd say that 得了/不了 are more likely to be used for a specific case,
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Forum: Grammar and Vocabulary 31st March 2008, 01:45 PM

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Is There Any English-Chinese Word Equivalence At All?

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回复: Is There Any English-Chinese Word Equivalence At All?

So word order is important, too? I thought it might be more interesting to look at it apart from
grammatical (or syntactical) differences the languages have. Look at the examples zozzen
provided,...



Forum: Grammar and Vocabulary 31st March 2008, 10:28 AM

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Is There Any English-Chinese Word Equivalence At All?

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回复: Is There Any English-Chinese Word Equivalence At All?

I think zozzen mentioned some great examples of where the same construction is used where that
would not have been necessary (我爱你, for example, would need to be expressed like that in the
majority of...



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Forum: Grammar and Vocabulary 12th December 2007, 06:11 AM

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Wild horses couldn't drag me away

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Posted By adrianlondon


Re: Wild horses couldn't drag me away

Not much of a chengyu, but according to google (ie it's not something I knew before; I'm just good
with search engines) ...

任何力量也不能使.....怎么样

the stuff where the dots are is what the wild horses...



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Forum: Reading and Writing 1st September 2003, 07:31 AM

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Characters vs phonetic writing systems

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i wish someone would have told this to the chef...

i wish someone would have told this to the chef at the chinese restaurant i was at the other
night. the pieces of pork were anything but bight size.



this is off topic & should possibly go into...



Forum: Reading and Writing 31st August 2003, 11:06 AM

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Characters vs phonetic writing systems

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Whilst i enjoy using chopsticks, i consider them...

Whilst i enjoy using chopsticks, i consider them highly inefficient compared to knives, forks,
spoons, and sporks. Whilst i enjoy learning/writing Chinese characters, i also consider them...



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Forum: Reading and Writing 18th September 2007, 04:02 AM

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book titles

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Posted By 82riceballs


Re: book titles

WOW! You sure know your grammar!

Anyways, thanks for all the input, guys! 謝謝大家！《 :mrgreen: 》



Forum: Reading and Writing 17th September 2007, 06:14 AM

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book titles

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book titles

i'm wondering how book titles are "written" in Chinese. in English, u would underline
（底線）or italicize （斜體）them.

eg:
That book is called Treasure Island.

or

That book is called Treasure Island.



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Forum: Reading and Writing 2nd November 2003, 06:50 AM

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Where to find the very basic characters

Views: 2,520

Posted By geek_frappa


sorry. there are a lot of mistakes and...

sorry. there are a lot of mistakes and ambiguities in the CEDICT database.
when i get some time, i will correct a lot of the errors.

i am in the process of writing a new, special dictionary with...



Forum: Reading and Writing 2nd November 2003, 03:07 AM

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Where to find the very basic characters

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Re: Where to find the very basic characters

basic characters? i think you are looking for what are called "chinese radicals". i have poster on
my wall with all the fundamental components of all more complicated characters. would you like...



Forum: Reading and Writing 2nd November 2003, 02:48 AM

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Where to find the very basic characters

Views: 2,520

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good questions. first answers (maybe partically...

good questions. first answers (maybe partically correct; i'm only a 3rd year student).


dui4 bu4 qi3 ... means "i cannot face you" ...
there is cultural context behind this expression (saving face...



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Forum: Reading and Writing 20th June 2005, 03:39 PM

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Is this true?

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Let's use an example. This is from today's yahoo...

Let's use an example. This is from today's yahoo news ->

"終審法院開始聆訊由港府提出的公務員減薪案上訴。港府表示，如果政府敗
訴，會發還薪酬給公務員。"

If this passage is read aloud for a dictation exercise, say for students at schools, then...



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Is this true?

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This is wrong. 國/国 is pronounced as...

This is wrong. 國/国 is pronounced as "gwok3" in Cantonese. All Chinese characters in use have
corresponding Cantonese pronunciations. You can find/hear the Cantonese pronunciation of a
Chinese...



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Is this true?

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This is quite new to me (I have been speaking...

This is quite new to me (I have been speaking Cantonese in Hong Kong all my life) ... hybrid?
hybird? ... hmm interesting ... I listen to news broadcast on Radio Television Hong Kong everyday
and...



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Is this true?

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It is true that written Chinese has been...

It is true that written Chinese has been standardised since Qin Dynasty. But that standardisation
was mainly to standardise the way to write a character (its shape, the number of strokes, etc).
If...



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Forum: Reading and Writing 24th December 2006, 10:01 AM

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DeFrancis article on Chinese writing reform

Views: 5,389

Posted By gato


Re: DeFrancis article on Chinese writing reform

Wushijiao has my copy of "Fact and Fantasy," so maybe he can chime in. De Francis obviously does
not advocate the abolishment of Chinese characters. He's the author of Chinese textbooks and...



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DeFrancis article on Chinese writing reform

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Re: DeFrancis article on Chinese writing reform

Without knowing anything about Latinxua Sin Wenz, I can just about read it. It's not hard because
it doesn't have any classical Chinese 文言文, meaning it's close to the spoken language, not
surprising...



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DeFrancis article on Chinese writing reform

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Re: DeFrancis article on Chinese writing reform

Come on. There are 文言文 in that passage:
"Jīnrén fāng wéi dāozǔ, wǒ wéi yúròu, hé cí wéi?"

You can't expect people to understand 成语 and 文言文 written in pinyin. Try a dialog from a
soap opera and...



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DeFrancis article on Chinese writing reform

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Re: DeFrancis article on Chinese writing reform

That's why most Chinese people didn't write until the advent of cell phones and the internet.
Technology has allowed many more Chinese to express themselves in writing (and has allowed many
more...



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DeFrancis article on Chinese writing reform

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Posted By gato


Yes, Chinese teachers and parents are...

Yes, Chinese teachers and parents are slavedrivers. We had to memorize the multiplication table in
first grade, too. :roll:



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DeFrancis article on Chinese writing reform

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I looked into a related question before and found...

I looked into a related question before and found that a mainland student is expected to recognize
1600-1800 characters by the end of second grade and 2500 characters by the end of fourth grade...



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Forum: Reading and Writing 30th July 2007, 09:42 PM

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I Hate Hanzi

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Re: I Hate Hanzi

For me, it's not the characters that cause problems. It's the multiple meanings, and the way words
are constructed.

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Forum: Reading and Writing 4th February 2004, 07:32 AM

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Simplified vs. Traditional

Views: 6,760

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Simplified versus Traditional

I tend to agree with CaveBear regarding the use of Simplified versus Traditional Characters. But
again, I think as someone has already pointed in here, it all depends how you want to use it.

In my...



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Forum: Reading and Writing 8th April 2004, 05:23 AM

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Poll: The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

Views: 7,570

Posted By Quest


are you cantonese geek? now roddy will just...

are you cantonese geek?


now roddy will just click X X X X X X X ... :clap



Forum: Reading and Writing 8th April 2004, 03:55 AM

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Poll: The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

Views: 7,570

Posted By Quest


Ian_Lee, you can't do that when the government...

Ian_Lee, you can't do that when the government and the media officials are all BJ appointed
mandarin speakers, and when the number of mandarin speaking people overshadows the natives. We are
still...



Forum: Reading and Writing 8th April 2004, 03:32 AM

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Poll: The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

Views: 7,570

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That WAS the case only a few years back! Now they...

That WAS the case only a few years back!
Now they tend to try to get by with their mandarin.
CLOSE THE DOORS! ( :twisted: )



Forum: Reading and Writing 8th April 2004, 03:00 AM

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Poll: The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

Views: 7,570

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I believe the degree of tolerance depends on the...

I believe the degree of tolerance depends on the foreign accent's status and influence. If you
admire the culture behind that accent, you would likely tolerate it or even love it, else...

The...



Forum: Reading and Writing 26th March 2004, 04:36 AM

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Poll: The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

Views: 7,570

Posted By Quest


Then "computer" is itself a misnomer?...

Then "computer" is itself a misnomer? anyways off topic :P



Forum: Reading and Writing 25th March 2004, 07:50 AM

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Poll: The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

Views: 7,570

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actually, 电脑 is the misleading term, but I agree...

actually, 电脑 is the misleading term, but I agree 计算机 is clumsy and it can be confused
with calculators.



Forum: Reading and Writing 24th March 2004, 01:29 PM

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Poll: The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

Views: 7,570

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Why "?" ? Do you mean the parts of the...

Why "?" ?
Do you mean the parts of the words do or do not give hints on what the words mean?

汽油-- gas(liquid)+oil, very intuitive.
无线电(磁波)-- wireless electromagnetic wave(a radio signal is an...



Forum: Reading and Writing 24th March 2004, 09:47 AM

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Posted By Quest


They don't need to, they are only responsible for...

They don't need to, they are only responsible for standard Cantonese.



Forum: Reading and Writing 23rd March 2004, 11:49 AM

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Poll: The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

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No, 字, 词, 成语 have very definite and clear...

No, 字, 词, 成语 have very definite and clear meanings. They do not make judgements. They only
do it when they try to explain their language to foreigners, because foreigners can't distinguish
between...



Forum: Reading and Writing 23rd March 2004, 09:26 AM

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:lol: :lol: :lol:

:lol: :lol: :lol:



Forum: Reading and Writing 23rd March 2004, 05:07 AM

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Poll: The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

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Posted By Quest


Not true, 3000 is the character count, not...

Not true, 3000 is the character count, not vocab/word count.



Forum: Reading and Writing 22nd March 2004, 04:16 PM

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Poll: The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

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Posted By Quest


Ala, are you a native speaker of Chinese? I see...

Ala, are you a native speaker of Chinese?
I see what you mean, but well.. at least me and people I know would not interpret
"yong4 xiaoshuo de xiao, zuo4 yige ju4zi."
the way you do :P

so I...



Forum: Reading and Writing 22nd March 2004, 03:50 PM

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Poll: The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

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小 is a word meaning little/small. Xiao3 is a...

小 is a word meaning little/small.

Xiao3 is a word meaning.....^n[/quote]

No, bathrobe is right. 小 in 小说 is just a part of the word. The equivalent is the root micro-
in microphone.[/quote]


I...



Forum: Reading and Writing 22nd March 2004, 03:28 PM

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Poll: The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

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Posted By Quest


小 is a word meaning little/small. Xiao3 is a...

小 is a word meaning little/small.

Xiao3 is a word meaning.....^n



Forum: Reading and Writing 22nd March 2004, 03:22 PM

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Poll: The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

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Posted By Quest


If you learned 小, it makes sense. If you learned...

If you learned 小, it makes sense.
If you learned xiao3, what xiao3?which xiao3?

小说 creates no confusion. 小, no confusion.
xiao3..... what xiao3?



The question is not use " xiao3shuo1", but use...



Forum: Reading and Writing 22nd March 2004, 03:14 PM

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Poll: The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

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Posted By Quest


exactly. sure it's not lost, it's just in that...

exactly.
sure it's not lost, it's just in that messy corner somewhere in your garage, until everyone in the
house forgets that that something's ever existed.



Forum: Reading and Writing 22nd March 2004, 03:06 PM

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Poll: The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

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Posted By Quest


Another thing is, the vocabulary used in speaking...

Another thing is, the vocabulary used in speaking is much less than in writing. Some ideas and
concepts are better conveyed through writing. I think the same thing is true in English.



Forum: Reading and Writing 22nd March 2004, 02:56 PM

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Poll: The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

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Sure, but what if you see "xiao3" by...

Sure, but what if you see "xiao3" by itself?
If a student sees a question like this (without context):
"Use the word "xiao3" to make a sentence."

Tell me how can you make it clear that you mean...



Forum: Reading and Writing 22nd March 2004, 02:51 PM

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Poll: The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

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A couple of generations are all that is needed...

A couple of generations are all that is needed for people to forget characters completely(look at
Vietnam/Korea). They will be wondering why 仓，苍，沧，舱，伧 are all cang1,
钱，前，潜，乾，钳 are all qian2,...



Forum: Reading and Writing 22nd March 2004, 02:22 PM

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Poll: The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

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Posted By Quest


Another thing to consider is, and I think it's...

Another thing to consider is, and I think it's been mentioned in another post, English speakers
"raed by sahpe of the wrods rtaher tahn by suond." that means they do not really have to "spell
out"...



Forum: Reading and Writing 22nd March 2004, 02:12 PM

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Poll: The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

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Posted By Quest


ala brought up some good points there. Also,...

ala brought up some good points there.
Also, when confusion arises in conversations, the speaker can use informal and "tedious" ways to
explain what he said.
For example,
In a conversation the...



Forum: Reading and Writing 21st March 2004, 06:23 AM

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Poll: The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

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The Chinese script has been misunderstood.

Roddy, I want to hear people's opinions on what I think. So you don't mind that I post my pm here,
do you? 8)

so here is what I wrote to Roddy, please give your vote:



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Forum: Reading and Writing 22nd January 2006, 12:36 AM

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Characters are objectively harder, even for Chinese

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In a sense, we do treat each individual word as a...

In a sense, we do treat each individual word as a 'character'... don't we.

That's what enables us to speed read.

Sometimes you run across characters that can only be explained with a sentance in...



Forum: Reading and Writing 21st January 2006, 03:59 PM

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Wow, I actually READ all of that ! I've studied...

Wow, I actually READ all of that !

I've studied Japanese for almost 4 and 1/2 years, and have just started studying Chinese ... 2
weeks ago. I'm learning Taiwanese style (bopomofo), which I find...



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Forum: Reading and Writing 26th September 2004, 12:17 AM

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how to use this word (到）

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I think xx哋 (高高哋，瘦瘦哋，肥肥哋) is a Cantonese-only...

I think xx哋 (高高哋，瘦瘦哋，肥肥哋) is a Cantonese-only usage.



Forum: Reading and Writing 19th September 2004, 12:52 AM

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how to use this word (到）

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的地得 are not homonyms in dialects, it's wrong to...

的地得 are not homonyms in dialects, it's wrong to say 跑的快 in Cantonese. When you are in
doubt, try to use the original pronunciations of 的地得 (de5/di5 di4 de2) to double check.



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Forum: Reading and Writing 24th August 2005, 07:50 PM

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A classical Word puzzle

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不错啊，看来不是假冒的 :)

不错啊，看来不是假冒的 :)



Forum: Reading and Writing 24th August 2005, 07:24 PM

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A classical Word puzzle

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hehe

来而不往非礼也。 got one for you:
一木口中栽，非杏也非呆。若把困字猜，不是真秀才。 :)



Forum: Reading and Writing 24th August 2005, 05:03 PM

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A classical Word puzzle

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hehe

Daydreamer must be dreaming something 'delicious'. :)



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