Chinese Online Class - Chongqing Museum

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Chongqing Museum

The Chongqing Museum is a museum of Chinese social history. Situated on the top of the Pipa Mountain, the Museum was founded in 1951 as the Southwest Museum and was renamed as the Chongqing Museum in 1955. It has 3,000 square meters for exhibition halls.

The Museum boasts a collection of more than 100,000 pieces of relics and 50,000 documents, including over 500 stonewares of Paleolithic times, 1,000 relics of Bashu Culture, 100 stone sculptures of the Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD), more than 4,000 porcelains and 5,000 paintings of various dynasties.
Relics of modern times total about 30,000 items, reflecting the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising, the 1911 Revolution, the May 4thMovement, the Long March, and the Anti-Japanese War in the 1930s. In addition, there are over 5,000 handicrafts and fine arts of the local ethnic
minorities on display.

The Museum has held more than 150 exhibitions, including the Exhibition of Relics of Southwest China, the Display of Historical Relics of Sichuan, the Exhibition of Chongqing Excavations, and the Exhibition of Chongqiing's Anti-Japanese War Documents, etc.

Publications of the Museum includeConcerning the Bashu Culture,Han Dynasty Sculpture Art of Sichuan,Bronze Mirrors in Chongqing,Ancient Pottery of Sichuan, andSichuan During the May 4thMovement.

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Learn Chinese online - Shanghai History Museum

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The new Shanghai History Museum, located now just below the Oriental TV Tower at Pudong New Area, was formally opened to the public on July 1, 2000. There are three major exhibition units reflecting Shanghai's history, modern and recent revolutionary history.

Founded in September 1983, Shanghai History Museum was formerly known as Shanghai Historical Relic Exhibition Hall and got the present name in 1991. In 1992, the Museum was moved to Hongqiao Road as the temporary site, and the exhibition hall was expanded to 1,400 square meters. The 40,000-plus
exhibits collected by the Museum reflect the historic vicissitudes of the Shanghai city.

Many historical exhibits -- bronze tigers which originally stood in front of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, printing machines the Commercial Press bought from the United States in the 1920s, a model of the Bund set in the 1930s and the model of the Hardoon Garden -- are now already
in their new home in Pudong.

In a 4,000-square-metre exhibition hall, the 1,000 artefacts and exhibits are elaborately arranged to revive the old Shanghai. Amidst the unique shikumen, or stone-arched houses and various Chinese shops, visitors are able to savour the charm of the oriental metropolis, once the largest city in
the Far East.

Most exciting for many will be the "performing zone". Every day, performances are staged to tell the history of different periods -- from the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) to the 1940s. Audiences can experience the old atmosphere with the help of the actors' songs and verbal and body languages.

A documentary about the Jewish influx to Shanghai to escape the Holocaust is on display regularly at the museum.

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Learn Mandarin online - Newspaper Office of China Relics

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Newspaper Office of China Relics

Address: No.1, Xilou Alley, Yonghegong Street, Eastern District, Beijing

Post Code: 100009

Tel: (86-10) 64010693 64010692 Fax: (86-10)64010693

The newspaper office of China Relics, established in 1987, is a newspaper and publishing institution under the State Bureau of Cultural relics.

Duties and tasks: To publicize state relics laws, regulations and policies; to report new archeological discoveries and relics research achievements; to spread relics and relics protection knowledge; to hold academic forums; and to conduct exchanges of domestic and foreign relics in formation.

Establishment: The newspaper includes the Editorial Department, General office and Service Department.

Major achievements: The newspaper offices publish Chinese Relics, a special weekly page on Chinese relics published in the Hong Kong Wen Wei Po and an internal monthly magazine, Work on Relics.

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Pnyin - Hangzhou Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors

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Hangzhou Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors

Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors are produced in Hangzhou City, the provincial capital of Zhejiang Province in East China. In China, the brand Zhang Xiaoquan represents not only scissors, but also profound Chinese culture. Every generation worked hard to keep its reputation. In the past 300-odd years of
history, Zhang Xiaoquan has never been more popular than today.

Made locally since the reign of Emperor Kangxi (1662-1723), Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors are reputed as the best scissors in China. More than 300 hundred years ago, the founder of Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors, Zhang Jiasi, adopted the techniques to make Zhejiang Longquan Sword, and innovated the skill of
inlaying scissors with steel. The scissors he made was famous far and wide for their tartness and shininess. Zhang Xiaoquan, the son of Zhang Jiasi, inherited his father's business and improved the processing techniques with strict regulations on mode, standard, variety and the degree of tartness.
Thus, he established the brand Zhang Xiaoquan, which made quite a prosperous business in the following several hundred years.

The King Scissors of Zhang Xiaoquan made in Hangzhou, 115 cm long and 56.64 kg in weight, have been recorded in the Genes World Record, while the smallest scissors are as tiny as 3 cm long and several grams in weight. In 1901, Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors won its first silver prize at the Nanyang
Quanye Exposition (an exposition for famous products held in the coastal cities of China in the Qing Dynasty); in 1919, it won the fourth prize at Panama World Exposition.

The Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors Factory in Hangzhou was established in 1957, and now, it has developed into the largest scissors manufacturer in China.

The factory, which releases 10 new designs yearly, also offers attractive models with ruler blades designed for children. The company is a top producer with sales and exports respectively accounting for 40 and 33% of China's total output of scissors. More than 30% of its output goes to about 40
counties and regions like Japan, Europe and Taiwan.

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Chinese Pinyin - Regulations of P.R.China on Nature Reserves

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Regulations of P.R.China on Nature Reserves

Article 31 The receiving unit shall report foreigners entering local natural reserves to the responsible administrative section of the natural reserves of the people's government of the province, municipality or autonomous region. Upon entering national natural reserves, the receiving unit shall
report to the responsible administrative section of the natural reserves of the people's government of the State Council.

Foreigners entering natural reserves shall abide by the laws, regulations and rules of the natural reserves.

Article 32 In the core and buffer zones of the natural reserves, the manufacture of constructions is forbidden. In the experimental zone of the natural reserves, the manufacture of constructions, which may pollute or damage the environment, is also forbidden. No facility construction is permitted
that discharges pollutants surpassing the national or local set standards. The facilities that have been established in the experimental zone of the natural reserves with discharges surpassing the national or local set standards shall be restrained; the ones that have caused loses shall provide
compensation.

Projects constructed in the outer protection zone of the natural reserves shall not have a negative impact on the quality of the environment of the natural reserves. Projects that have already caused a negative impact shall mend their ways within a given time limit.

The decision to reform shall be made by certain bureaus according to laws and regulations; enterprises in need of reform shall complete the task on time.

Article 33 An individual or agency that has polluted or damaged, or may pollute or damage, natural reserves due to an accident or other unexpected incidents, shall carry out measures to: resolve the problem, inform the residents or units that may be harmed, report to management and the responsible
sections of the local natural reserves and the environmental protection unit, and accept an investigation and a punishment.

Chapter IV Legal Responsibility

Article 34 An individual or agency that has violated a regulation in one of the following situations shall amend their behavior in accordance with the enforcement of the administrative section of the natural reserves. A fine of RMB 100-5,000, depending on the situation, could also be imposed.

Moving or destroying landmarks of natural reserves without permission

Entering natural reserves without permission or disobeying the working staff.

An individual or agency permitted to conduct activities such as scientific research, teaching and specimen collecting in the buffer zone of the natural reserves but has failed to submit a copy of the achievement record to the administrative section of the natural reserves.

Article 35 Apart from being punished, an individual or agency that conducts activities in violation of the regulation -- such as felling, grazing, hunting, fishing, herb collecting, cultivating, burning grass on waste land, mining, stone collecting and sand digging can be seized, forced to stop
the illegal activities, asked to restore the natural reserves in a given time or provide compensation. A fine of RMB 300-10,000 can also be imposed for damaging the reserves.

Article 36 A natural reserves administrator who refuses to coordinate the supervision of the responsible section of the environmental protection or relevant responsible natural reserves section, or engages in fraud during the supervision can be fined RMB 300-3,000 by the responsible environmental
protection section of the people's government above a county level or the relevant responsible natural reserves section.

Article 37 An administrative section of the natural reserves that violates the regulation in one of the following situations shall be dealt with in accordance with the responsible environmental protection section of the people's government above county level. The person directly responsible shall
be punished accordingly by the unit in charge.

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Study Chinese - Herb Peony

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Herb Peony

Alias:Jiangli,Yurong,Liuyi

Family Name: Paeoniaceae

1. Morphological Character

The stalk is caespitose. The trunk is between 60 to 150 centimeters in height, with thick and long fleshy root. The leaves at the bottom are compound leaves, while those at the top are simple leaves, with white bony thin teeth at the edge. The top of the stalk ramifies, with a flower on top of
each branch, which is between 5.5 to 10 centimeters in diameter. Some gardening species have flowers with a diameter of 15 to 20 centimeters. The flowers are white, pink, red, purple, dark purple, lilac, yellow, etc. The follicle fruit matures in August.

2. Main Points for Planting

The main method of reproduction is offshooting and seeding. Offshooting should be performed from the last ten days of August to that of September. Offshooting in spring would cause the maladjustment of moisture and nutrition in the plant, resulting in debility and death of the plant. To offshoot,
the root should be dug out, dried in the shade for one or two days and finally broken off along the aperture. Offshooting should be performed once every 6 to 10 years. In reproduction of seeding, root starts rhizogenesis in the same fall of seeding and the seed will germinate in the spring of the
next year. The young plant grows slowly. Very few plants will blossom in the following third year. The common blossom time is in the following 4 or 5 years. Basic fertilizer should be plenteous before inseminating, with deep furrowing and flatting once and again. The best time to inseminating is
between the last ten days of August and that of September. The row space between plants should be 85cm×85cm. Fertilizer should be applied together with freezing water before ice-out in spring, and it should be fertilized 3 times a year. The soil should be wet with a little dry. The plant should
be watered thoroughly before blossom. Water it completely with fertilization before the germination in early spring. Water it with freezing water in the last twenty days of November.

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Chinese Class - Leopard

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Leopard

With the alias of Gold-coin Leopard, or Baozi and Wenbao, it belongs to the Felidae family of Carnivora order. Its scientific names are Panthera pardus (Latin), and Leopard (English).

It weighs about 50 kilograms, and the body length is above 1 meter, with the tail exceeding half of the total length. It belongs to the type of large- or medium-sized beast of prey genera, with a shape similar but miniature to tiger. It has round head, short ears, four sturdy and strong limbs, and
sharp claws with good retractility. Its body colors are vivid, with tan hair, and black spots and loop lines all over, forming old-coin-shaped stripes. Hence, it was given the name of "Gold-coin Leopard". Its belly is milky white.

It inhabits in multifarious environments, distributed from low mountains, hills to mountain forests and bushes, living in invisible and solid caves. It has extremely strong physical strength, sensitive vision and olfaction, and is highly alert. It is also skillful in swimming and climbing trees.
The above abilities make it a daring and fierce carnivore with broad food choices. During the breeding period, the males fight impetuously for females. Its oestrus and mating are usually in April, and new babies are delivered in June or July, usually 3 babies per propagation. Young leopards leave
the mother leopard in the following autumn to live by themselves, and grow to sexual maturity at the age of 2.5 to 3. Under breeding condition, its life span can reach as long as 20 to 23 years.

It was once widely distributed in northeastern China and south of the Yellow River; but now the quantity is very small. Leopard has been listed in Appendix I ofInternational Trade Convention on Endangered Wild Animal and Plant Species.

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Chinese Mandarin - Everyday Eating Customs in China

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Everyday Eating Customs in China

Chinese cuisine culture is deep rooted in China's history. There are so many “whys” that you may find so interesting: Why is a fish never turned over Why do tea-drinkers surreptitiously tap tables Why are Chinese dinner tables round and how will you know who is the guest of honor

The whole meal will be more enjoyable if you knows a little of the ancient traditions and beliefs that place the meal in a 5,000-year-old culinary heritage.

As a visitor or guest in either a Chinese home or restaurant you will find that table manners are essential and the distinctive courtesies displayed will invariably add to the enjoyment of your meals and keep you in high spirits!

1. Though customs and the kinds of food eaten vary according to region, it is most common for Chinese families to gather for three meals a day.

2. An individual place setting for an everyday meal includes a bowl of Fan (rice), a pair of chopsticks, a flat-bottomed soup-spoon, and a saucer. Instead of a napkin, a hot towel is often provided at the start as well as the end of the meal for the diner to wipe his hands and mouth.

3. The real difference is that in the West, you have your own plate of food, while in China all the dishes will put on the table for everyone’s share. The meat and vegetable dishes are laid out all at once in the center of the table, and the diners eat directly from the communal plates using
their chopsticks. Soup is also eaten from the common bowl. Rather than for serving oneself a separate portion, the saucer is used for bones and shells or as a place to rest a bite taken from a communal plate when it is too large to eat all at once.

4. It is perfectly acceptable to reach across the table to take a morsel from a far-away dish. To facilitate access to all the dishes, Chinese dining tables are more likely to be square or round, rather than elongated like their western counterparts.

5. Maybe one of the things that will surprise a Western visitor most is that some of the Chinese hosts would like to put food into the plates of their guests. Usually in formal dinners, there are always “public” chopsticks and spoons for this purpose, but some hosts may still use their own
chopsticks. This is a token of genuine friendship and politeness. It is polite to eat the food. If you don’t like to eat it, please just leave the food in the plate.

6. Eating usually begins in order of seniority, with each diner taking the cue to start from his or her immediate superior.

7. In order to cool the soup a bit and to better diffuse the flavor in the mouth, soup is eaten by sipping from the spoon while breathing in. This method, of course, produces the slurping noise that is taboo in the West.

8. Rice, or Fan in Chinese, is the staple food. To eat Fan, a diner raises the bowl to her lips and pushes the grains into her mouth with chopsticks. This is the easiest way to eat it and shows proper enjoyment. The diner must finish the entire bowl of rice, otherwise it is considered bad manners
-- a lack of respect for the labor required to produce it.

9. People in China tend to over-order food, especially at banquets or get-togethers, for they will find it embarrassing if all the food is consumed or not enough.

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I first meet "囧" ( pronounced Jiong in Chinese) was one moth ago when I talked online with a young man who is an intern in my company. He sent me a face-like symbol following a request for a permission of absence. I guessed this may be an expression of puzzlement. To my surprise, from then on, I
came across this face everywhere on the internet, from MSN, QQ, blog to BBS, from flash game to everyday commodities.

I searched for it online and found this embarrassed looking face is actually an ancient Chinese hieroglyphic character, and it originally means"bright". The big outside pane indicates the house and the smaller one represents the window, where light come through. Yet because of its resemblance to a
human face with two drooping eyebrows and a mouth, some Internet users have started using it as an emoticon to express embarrassment. Now, however, the character has been tweaked to represent many other feelings.

A sudden metamorphosis

Why does this uncommon ancient character get so much attention One saying is that the 囧's prevalence based on a discussion about a Hong Kong actress Hu Xing'er in a famous BBS. People described Hu's expression in one TV series was the same as the 囧. Then other comments about her acting and
her face were labeled by the 囧 character. More and more people focused on this square face and more kinds of 囧appeared on the internet.

When we talk about 囧, we cannot mention another famous internet icon—Orz. It was originally from Japan but then spread to China. It illustrates a guy facing left and kneeling on the ground, the "o" is the head, the "r" is the hands and the body while the "z" is the legs. People use this
pictograph to show they failed and they are in despair or in a sad mood.

There are many alternative forms of "orz" including "or2", "on_", "OTZ", "OTL", "STO", "JTO" and so on. Inspired from the orz, people use it instead the 囧. Then the “囧rz” appeared.

Following the prevalence of 囧, a discussion about is it right to change Chinese began. Some complained that these developments are twisting the Chinese language, imposing funny, new meanings on a character with its own linguistic roots. Such "innovations" could confuse young people by distorting
linguistic history, they say. Supporters, however, say this is only a harmless new cultural phenomenon, giving new life to Chinese language and culture.





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leosmith -

I’ve been using online tutorials to learn pronunciations/tones. Unfortunately, there are some
discrepancies. Here are some questions.

1. I’ve heard it’s best to learn the Beijing accent. What do you think?
2. Is ‘c’ pronounced more like ‘ts’ or ‘h’? Different sites have different
pronunciations.
3. Should I use this dictionary http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php
to resolve any accent questions?

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Gulao -

1. You shouldn't learn the thicker Beijing accent, IMO. It can get to be just as unclear as any
other accent. Ultimately, you should look up the "standard" pronunciations and make sure that each
letter sounds like that. For instance, don't try to pronounce 学生 as 学儿生. You'll still
get a bit of rhoticity at the end of xue, that way, but it will definitely sound more standard.

2. C is pronounded ts. Stop reading whatever source tells you that it is pronounced h.

3. That dictionary seems fine to me.










leosmith -

Thanks Gulao,

1. Actually, I'm just beginning, so I don't know any characters yet. According to the dictionary,
学生(student) = xue2sheng5. For the mispronounced word, which of these do you mean: 学儿生 =
xue2er2sheng5 or xue2er5sheng5?

2. The "c sounds like h" thing came from a syllable table. Do you, or anyone else, know of a site
with a complete syllable table, including tones, that has good pronunciation? I've been using 3
different tables, all connected to
http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm
One has correct pronunciation (I think), but is all in the first tone. The other two are complete,
but have incorrect pronunciation (I suspect it's a messed up recording). I just want to try to
read the pinyin, and click to hear the answer. These tables are great for that, but I need them to
have correct pronunciation.

3. I love that dictionary, but I notice it locks up when I check a lot of pronunciations. Do you
know of another one that has pronunciation on it? Is there a really popular chinese dictionary
site? There's sort of a master dictionary for Japanese
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/c...wwwjdic.cgi?1C
so I wonder about Chinese.










imron -

This is probably what you're looking for.










leosmith -

Thanks imron. Not bad, but I hope to find something a little faster like one of these:
http://www. /showthread.php?t=12997










Gulao -



Quote:

Actually, I'm just beginning, so I don't know any characters yet. According to the dictionary,
学生(student) = xue2sheng5. For the mispronounced word, which of these do you mean: 学儿生 =
xue2er2sheng5 or xue2er5sheng5?

The second one tends to be romanised as, xuer2sheng5. The 儿 is used in text to indicate
rhoticity, or the r-colored finals, in the Beijing dialect. This romanisation is also used in
yi1dianr3 (一点儿), ger1 (哥儿), wanr2 (玩儿), etc.










Craig -

Living in Beijing and studying in Beijing i still find it easier to understand, and now talk in, a
southern accent. When i started i stuck very dilligently the beijing pronunciation but the longer
i studied the easier it got to stop retroflexing r's.

I'd say start with learning the "standard" way to pronounce words and as you study more and are
exposed to more materials (videos, music, people) from other parts of china one you will find
easier than others to replicate. That is the one you will most likely end up speaking more like.










Yang Rui -

IMHO, it's best to learn standard Putonghua and not try to adopt any kind of regional accent.
There's nothing more cringeworthy than hearing a foreigner attempting to talk in an over-the-top
Beijing accent.

Putonghua has rules about which words take a retroflex "r" and which don't. In Beijing, the "r"
sound is added to words that technically should not have an"r" ending in Putonghua. In the south
of China, the "r" sound is left off words that should have an "r" ending. Neither is standard
Putonghua.

Unfortunately, the noble goal of trying to learn standard Putonghua is undermined by the fact that
almost no one speaks it in daily life (although as it is based on the Beijing dialect, i think
more people in the north of China speak standard Putonghua). So if you learn by talking to Chinese
people, you will undoubtedly pick up their non-standard habits, and may end up with a slight
regional accent.

Ultimately, the aim is to be understood by as many people as possible, and i think aiming for
standard Putonghua is the best way to achieve this. Which i suppose is a roundabout way of
agreeing with Gulao that you should not learn a heavy Beijing accent.










leosmith -



Quote:

IMHO, it's best to learn standard Putonghua and not try to adopt any kind of regional accent.

Ok, I'm convinced. So how do I make sure my learning materials are "standard" Putonghua?










roddy -

All learning materials - ie textbooks, associated recordings, etc are going to be standard
Putonghua, almost by definition. If you are using stuff like movies, TV shows, etc for study
purposes you might want to check what kind of accents they feature, but you'll have to take those
one by one.












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Hi, I'm a student majoring Enlish. I want to find a native Enlish speaker as my language partner,
and I can improve your Chinese in return.I study in CUGB(China University of Geosciences)near
Wudaokou and across from BLCU(Beijing Language and Culture University). So anyone who studies in
BLCU or live near Wudaodou can contact me at
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Forum: Reading and Writing 4th February 2004, 10:44 PM

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Chinese Idiom Rally II.

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Anyone can show us some light on an idiom...

Anyone can show us some light on an idiom starting with 母?
Not easy one



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Chinese Idiom Rally II.

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being involved into a embarrassing situation that...

being involved into a embarrassing situation that each of the available options would lead to
blame, as 里外不是人 li3 wai4 bu2 shi4 ren2,

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Chinese Idiom Rally II.

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Performing something incredibly well, here we...

Performing something incredibly well, here we come 出神入化 chu1 shen2 ru4 hua4



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Chinese Idiom Rally II.

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Brothers and sisters love each other, as 骨肉情深...

Brothers and sisters love each other, as 骨肉情深 gu\/ rou\ qing/ shen-



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Chinese Idiom Rally II.

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Sorry about that Barbara. I didn't notice...

Sorry about that Barbara. I didn't notice it.

Good transformation! I believe that's the very value of this game.

In this modernized planet people can hardly find enough place to live freely and...



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Chinese Idiom Rally II.

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planing the overall strategy while being far away...

planing the overall strategy while being far away from the place where the strategy is applied, as
运筹帷幄
Here comes a challenging one, good luck.



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well, this one cost me some time. I got it. I...

well, this one cost me some time.
I got it.
I need to be a 能工巧匠(very competent worker/craftsman) on the art of Chinese language to
hammer out the answer for Barbara.
How about that?



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Do whatever you want through 随心所欲

Do whatever you want through 随心所欲



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The most anti-traditional performance on marriage...

The most anti-traditional performance on marriage as 人尽可夫



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How difficult is learning Chinese characters?

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chinese kids acquire new vocabulary through...

chinese kids acquire new vocabulary through speaking and reading, too. you probably dont believe
me when i say learning to write chinese as a native kid is almost effortless in a sense and does
not...



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wix, i understand your point. I did not say the...

wix, i understand your point. I did not say the characters are very easy to learn. but to native
children, it's jsut not all that difficult as you might think, and no one can be certain that
doing...



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okay, let me tell you this. when i was in first...

okay, let me tell you this. when i was in first or second grade, it was all characters copying.
however, the assignments were never meant to take you longer than half an hour a day. so, I
always...



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How difficult is learning Chinese characters?

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How difficult is learning Chinese characters?

this topic has been split from the Characters vs Phonetic writing systems topic
(http://www.roddyflagg.34sp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=153) - Roddy

as a native speaker learning chinese characters, i...



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skipping work

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IMHO this is being quite insensitive and...

IMHO this is being quite insensitive and patronising ... when there are "Chinese people" on these
forum. :-?



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Somehow I feel that 蹺 is more neutral than both 曠...

Somehow I feel that 蹺 is more neutral than both 曠 and 逃, which are quite negative IMHO.



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The importance of learning radicals...

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In my experience, Chinese people don't think of...

In my experience, Chinese people don't think of characters this way. One of the examples that
comes to mind immediately is 嫖. They don't seem to realize that this is a 'woman ticket' as I
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Hanzi 漢字 for greater numbers, like 廿/卄 20, 卅 30, 卌 40, 皕 200....

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Re: Hanzi 漢字 for greater numbers, like 廿/卄 20, 卅 30, 卌 40, 皕 200....

Some characters in your post for greater numbers are absolutely new to me, a Chinese native
speaker.
“卍” is a distinctive symbol in Buddhism. In Chinese we call it “wan zi fu”.



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Ubuntu distribution

We just put up a 32-bit binary version (http://adsotrans.com/downloads/) of Adso compiled on
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为什么很多的汉语学习者在这里不用汉语?

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Thanks for the nomination, elina. I am...

Thanks for the nomination, elina. I am flattered. BUT I can't be a moderator because a) my degree
of laziness is not just 挺高 but 很厲害; b) I cannot explain Chinese grammar at all; c) roddy
doesn't...



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Take a look at post #6...

Take a look at post #6 (http://www. /showpost.php?p=52181&postcount=6).

There is a thread which is almost completely in Chinese, though. Take a look -> Jokes...



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Re: most embarrassing moment while learning Chinese

hmm, I used to like fencing (ie sword fighting) and had got it into my head -- probably wrong, I'm
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