Personally, I am much more disturbed bothered when eating ramens in front of someone who slurps them :D
There are always drops that end up on my face :D
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Personally, I am much more disturbed bothered when eating ramens in front of someone who slurps them :D
There are always drops that end up on my face :D
36.2 C (97.1 F)for me and I'm chinese M.
Yeah that's also what I've noticed from my interactions with china-born teens, but it's the same in any country. For instance, I was in england and when a friend asked me if I wanted some fries, I...
I thought pin yin was the most used input method used in china? Am I wrong?
Hum...even in cantonese texts I see 我 ...
I agree with JimmySeal
A chinese person MIGHT be able to understand some japanese sentences through the kanjis but will probably not be able to grasp the grammatical structure unless he's studied...
I've been told that most japanese reviews were really harsh however... ^^;
Well we do have some chinese History course, but it's only common knowledge, like the different dynasties, evolution of the clothing styles and so on.
Sorry dear Minty but I don't have any specific insight about confucius himself since I can barely read chinese and there's many versions of his books. I just happened to make a presentation on China...
Confucius has been popular for quite some time now. The main problem is that the original texts don't have any points, comas, question marks or any of the other signs. Therefore, the interpretations...
Yeah from my friends photos it seems like this kind of costumes is quite popular at the moment.
Still I doubt I'll ever get to try one ^^
Hum...I feel like studying chinese more seriously now... :P
dang...seems complicate to pronounce xD
Well...the point is that you have to practice ^^
You can't compare a 15-20hours/week with a 1hour/week course.
You'd be surprised to see foreign student at my association who were barely able to...
Well...let's say that depending on where you go the "racism" level will differ, from simple curiosity (if that can be considered racism) to total denial
Well...not a mishearing since she wrote it down on the blackboard... (but this one's from my french teacher, the other teacher won't be back before next week...)
Hum...I still encounter weird forms sometimes... one of my teacher litterally told me of a "xong guo bu hen ta" (china isn't very big) and I am still wondering if the sentence is correct...
I know about the tones since I'm not a total beginer but I just can't seem to place them in a conversation xD
By the way, I kinda feel like there's a tone modification when two characters with the...
Well...I am of chinese origins and when speaking chinese, I noticed that there was 2 mains groups: The people called litterally "Yellow-kind-humans" and "Ghosts" for foreigners ^^'
For exemple I...
Hum...I'd say that if you're willing to give it 10-15 hours/week, you can learn the basic in less than 3 months (if you're a total foreigner I mean)
Point is that both are quite difficult to learn...especially the chinese tunes so if you look caucassian, I don't know if they'll trust your knowledge of chinese in Japan and vice versa in...
Well...point is that when I'm using the wrong tones, the chinese students just don't seem to unerstand me ^^'
hahaha I see ^^'
So somehow, the curse turned out to be a blessing in the end...
The problem is that I have only 2hours of chinese/week which to my mind is far from enough to let me learn the...
Do you mind if I'm asking you when did you begin to learn mandarin and how long it took you to be able to speak it fluently?
yeah but when you speak it's difficult to think before pronouncing each word...
As for the Taiwanese Vs Pekin mandarin, the sound's quite different (at least to me) and point is that the expressions...