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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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kudra

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I'd suggest email to instructors at some top universities. Ask what text they use for intro
courses.

Some titles I used or heard of
Spoken Standard Chinese/Written Standard Chinese vols 1, 2 Huang and Stimson
(I used this in the 80s, and it was used at Yale, where it was written, as recently as 6 years ago)

Integrated Chinese

Chinese Odyssey
Author: Xueying Wang, Li-chuang Chi, and Liping Feng

I haven't looked at so I have no opinion of Integrated Chinese, or Chinese Odyssey.

This would be a good project, which I don't have that much interest or time to do:
Assemble a list of texts used in years 1, 2, and 3 at various universities
Columbia, Yale, Middlebury, Seton Hall, Michigan, etc.

Noted added: Actually I've started this project, sent some emails. I'll post when I have a useful
table

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French and very little German. I began German self-study but never really continued. Hope to get
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Sunday, June 8, 2008

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Triode88 -

Thanks for the infomation.

I have tried the link & dod not manage to sign up. It always states that the server is busy?

Is there any other way to get sign up?

Thanks.

yf_chen -

You can do it via text message. If you're not in China, sign up online during off-peak hours of
11pm to 9am Beijing Time.

LaoWai -

I used the url suggested here,received a registration number and downloaded the English version of
QQ (2005, Vista compatible). However, when I launch the QQ program and get the sign-in screen (see
attachment), after I input my QQ number and password (selected as part of the program download
process), I cannot actually sign in to QQ. Also, the sign in screen cannot be expanded, in case
there are other buttons which I cannot see in the reduced view. Any suggestions are welcomed.

BrandeX -

I used the above site to register a QQ address, but rather than using the official client which is
reportedly malware at best, I connect (with al my IM's) through Pidgin.

http://www.pidgin.im/

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TCcookie -

Hi all. I'm taking a group voice class this term, and for our final solo we get to choose our own
song to perform. I thought it would be really cool to do something in Chinese. Does anyone know
where I can find some Chinese sheet music (in Chinese)? Also, what are some more traditional
Chinese songs you like that might be fun to sing (I think my teacher would frown on a pop
selection). I sing tenor / baritone. Thanks.

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Saturday, June 7, 2008

Chinese Online Class - Win XP (English version) and Chinese Input - hangs aplication - From Beijing Chinese School.com > Learning Chinese > Chinese Computing and Technology

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been2china -

I have an issue on my laptop. Using the standard Windows XP support for East Asian Languages to
type Chinese via Pinyin Input, it always worked fine then suddenly, using the usual Alt-Shift to
change to Simplified Chinese Input, I can only enter the 1st. 2 characters then it locks/hangs and
Task Manager shows that prog is using 98% or 99% CPU.

This happens with Word, Explorer and Windows Live Messenger, in fact any attempt to input Chinese.

So far I have tried removing the East Asian Languages option then adding it back again, no change.

Very reluctant to do a complete Windows reinstall/repair without first getting to understand what
went wrong. Anyone else encountered this - any suggestions?

(There is no Event Log error when the app hangs, - once I kill the app via Task Manager a hungapp
error on the app exe file name can be seen)

Thanks!

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889 -

You say you removed the East Asian languages option, but what did you do: just uncheck that box?

If so, I'd suggest going to the details page and separately uninstalling whatever Chinese and
other Asian language options you've got, then reboot and try installing them again.

If it's a particular problem with the MS IME, you can also try installing the Google Pinyin IME:

http://tools.google.com/pinyin

It's a bit better than the MS IME in any event.

been2china -

Now I have tried removing the keyboard for Chinese input from the Details section as well us
un-installing all East Asian language, reboot, then a re-install of all Chinese setup. But to no
avail, still hangs the app after 2 characters of input.

Will look at the Google IME but will it work for all things in Windows, eg with Windows IME you
can create file names in Chinese, etc, use it in Live Messenger, Outlook Express and Word. Can
Google IME do all that?

tooironic -

Yes, of course. Google Pinyin is quite fantastic, 100x better than Window's terrible default one.
It's fast, reliable and has an excellent pinyin=>character prediction scheme.

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L-F-J -

which tone does 叉 take in 劈叉, 横叉, and 竖叉? i've heard it sound like 4th tone, but i
didnt think 叉 ever has the 4th tone. it can have 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. i would guess 3rd in this
case?

can someone provide the proper tone marks for the three words? thanks!

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monto -

May be a little help:
According "New Age Chinese-English Dictionary" by The Commercial Press,
叉（cha1):
1) fork (noun); 2) fork (verb) 3) ' X ' mark
叉（cha2):
(dialect) block, jam (verb)
叉（cha3):
to part (legs) to form a fork shape
叉（cha4):
see "劈叉" (pi3 cha4)
and 劈叉sports) do the splits.

From above, we know 叉 is 4th tone in 劈叉, and I think also 4th in 横叉 and 竖叉 if they
mean specific splits with the same concept as 劈叉.

L-F-J -

yes, it refers to the front split and side split.

perhaps i wasnt looking in the right dictionaries. thank you!

ganyuehan -

Maybe I'm going off on another of my irrelevant tangents, but I often hear doing the splits said
as 劈腿(many girls at the cram school I work at go to dance class).

L-F-J -

well, in some shaolin gongfu forms there is a move called 劈腿 where you just kick your leg
straight in the air, vertically. which can also be a dance/cheerleading move i guess.

i've only heard the splits as 劈叉. then more specifically side and front splits as 横叉 and
竖叉.

ganyuehan -

Perhaps we're entering another area in which Taiwan differs from China, or parts of China anyway.
Students at my cram school will say 劈腿 and then even demonstrate the painful looking position.
A native speaker I know who speaks fairly standard Mandarin, (not really scary Taiwanese Mandarin)
said she has never used or heard 劈叉. But anyways, it looks like people in different areas say
it in different ways.

Here are a couple of links just to show I haven't completely lost my mind:

http://lzxm160.blogchina.com/5144089.html
http://www.whnews.cn/news/2006-09/27/content_993740.htm

劈腿 seems to have an additional meaning that's sexual, but that's not the direction I'm going
in here.

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Friday, June 6, 2008

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View Poll Results: Are you a native Chinese speaker
I am NOT a native speaker of the Chinese language. 49 64.47%
I am a native speaker. My mother tongue is Putonghua. I speak Putonghua at home. 12 15.79%
I am a native speaker. My mother tongue is Putonghua. I don't speak Putonghua at home. 3 3.95%
I am a native speaker. My mother tongue is not Putonghua. I speak Putonghua at home. 2 2.63%
I am a native speaker. My mother tongue is not Putonghua. I don't speak Putonghua at home. 10 13.16
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imron -

Quote:

I personally never go into the Chinese corner because I know all the conversations in there are
beyond me, so I just don't bother.

How do you know if you don't look Currently the longest thread on the main 中文角 page (with
the exception of the jokes thread) was started by someone who at the time had only been learning
Chinese for half a year. Combined with tools like chinesepera-kun, you might find it easier than
you think.

I also agree with gougou. Feel free to test the waters, and if separating posts out into
beginner/intermediate/advanced is something that proves popular and gets regular use, then it's a
lot easier to justify splitting it out into separate sub-forums.

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Hero Doug -

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Originally Posted by gougou

To be honest, I wonder whether there is enough interest in that. But feel free to start a thread
and mark it as beginners only to test the waters!

I may give that a try after I'm finished messing around with Linux.

Quote:

Originally Posted by imron

How do you know if you don't look

I used to look regularly and excitedly, now I just scroll past it in shame

Actually I used to go in and have a look but I still have huge vocabulary gaps so a lot of times
(most of the time) the meaning would get lost. I'll try the tool you suggested and see what I can
do.

tanklao -

I am a native Chinese speaker, but my mother toungh is Minnan Chinese which is identified as
another language by the Internation Standardization Orgnization(ISO).

skylee -

Quote:

Originally Posted by tanklao

I am a native Chinese speaker, but my mother toungh is Minnan Chinese which is identified as
another language by the Internation Standardization Orgnization(ISO).

You may wish to take a look at post #1 for what is "Chinese" for the purpose of this poll. In
short if you consider yourself a native speaker, then you are (this is just a poll not an academic
study). You can take ISO's view too if you like.

skylee -

bump.

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Chinese Course - Any recommendations for a general English textbook available on the mainland? - From Beijing Chinese School.com > Studying, Working and Living in China > Living in China > Teaching English in

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roddy -

I've been asked to help someone to chose a textbook for studying English, but I wouldn't know
where to start without going to a bookshop and looking at books, which is far too time-consuming.

Basically looking for a general textbook series that'll cover a bit of everything, probably
designed for classroom use but also suitable for self-study. Something like the Headway series for
anyone who knows that, although that's not available in China, bar as an import (I think, if it is
available here that would probably be perfect).

I remember a couple from my teaching days but never actually used them so don't know if they're
any good or not. Plus my memory doesn't go as far as names - New Interchange? Something like that?

Any of our active teachers got any suggestions?

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imron -

One I remember being popular from when I was teaching is New Concept English. I don't know what
the content is like though.

BrandeX -

Popular series include: Longman's, New Interchange, New Concept (written in 1967 and still used )
Cambridge, and training center specific ones can be good if you can get ahold of them. ( I have a
set of EF ) It can also depend on the age group you are teaching too. There is a myriad of
chinese-centric produced books, but at least 2 of those that I have contain some engrish or other
mistakes. I have found even small local bookstores will have a section with at least the student
edition of several english training books, it may ultimately be worth spending an hour or two
anyways to peruse them before making a final decision. If I had to suggest general texts I guess
I'd go with Cambridge or New Interchange

self-taught-mba -

Yep. NCE is widely used and there is a plethora of transcripts, electronic versions, and audio
files widely available to download as an augment. I am surprised they haven't heard of it. Or
maybe they have and are looking for something else. Content is fairly solid and systematic albeit
rather typical and boring in many ways.

>>typed.

Rincewind -

Roddy, you didn't say what age the student is. However, I'll assume they are adult or at least
teenage. It would also help to know if they have studied any English before but I'll assume they
haven't.

Interchange English - Published by Cambridge - is the range I use most for my own classes. I've
used it for two years now both at university and at private schools. If studying on one's own
without a teacher then I recommend the student to get the full range of books, especially the
workbook, to compliment the students book. There are DVD's that go with the course plus there are
exercises on the Interchange web site that you can work through.

The vocabulary used in Interchange is useful and builds systematically. I'd say it's a more
practical vocabulary for modern English than the NCE range (below) gives. The grammar is clearly
explained but only briefly and only in English. If you don't have a teacher, you might not
understand the the grammar sections in this book. On the up side, the grammar builds logically
throughout the range of books. The books are well balance with a mix of reading, writing,
listening and talking exercises. Though you would need to be in a classroom setting to make the
most of the talking sections.

New Concept English - This is the standard at every school. It has it's good points and some
distinct bad points. On the plus side it's very thorough. Every element of grammar is covered by
the time you finish book 2. That is also one of it's down sides. It can sometimes spend too long
teaching some rather special grammar in book 2 that could have been left till book 4. The books
have explanations in both English and Chinese so you can read it yourself however, I'd recommend
still taking classes as you will learn faster. The pictures in the books lack the visual appeal of
some other books but are functional. There is a bit too much emphasis on reading and writing
skills and not enough conversation. This is especially true of books 3 and 4 which are basically
just reading comprehension exercises.

I have used some other books, but the are for either young children or for specialist topics or I
don't like them. If your student has already studied some English before and is just wanting to
improve, then I'd give a different set of recommendations to that above.

roddy -

Thanks for those. I think I'll recommend Interchange.

What a useful website this is!

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Thursday, June 5, 2008

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casual -

Allow me to use Chinese here, actually we call the mode of adding "r" to end the pronunciation as
"儿化音“， literally means use the sound of "r" to modify the pronunciation, note that only
to modify not to replace, so I don't agree to call it contraction, actually it's not, when people
say "wo gaor ni le" they don't intent to use "告” for “告诉”， they still mean to use
the word "告诉“ only the pronunciation's changed.
If it is contraction, how to explain the case of adding "r" to only one-charater word, if a girl
named "燕”，in pinyin it is "yan", but daily we will call her "yanr".

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smithsgj -

In your example the n sound (the nasal) undergoes contraction doesn't it? I mean you don't really
say 'yanr', do you, it's more like 'ye-r'. Maybe the vowel is a little bit nasalized.

tetsuo500 -

I think what casual was saying, was, that even though you may not hear the n in the name, it is
not a contraction. It is just a characteristic of the accent. The speaker is still THINKING the n,
just not using it. If a Beijinger were to put on another accent, they would say the n sound,
whilst they would skip it in their normal Beijing accent. A contraction would be when part of a
word is lost, despite the accent being used.

I knew nothing about 'contractions' before this thread, so I'm just assuming here.

smithsgj -

I would say that if the Beijing speaker is in some sense "thinking" the 'n' then it is indeed a
contraction. And also if the vowel has any sort of nasal quality to it at all.

If it's just a case of the 'n' being swopped for an 'r' then it is *not* a contraction. But I'm
not happy with that, because my impression of erhua, like Casual's, is that it involves adding
something on, not exchanging something.

Something is added on, and as a result something disappears. It happens in that order, in my
opinion.

Luobot -

Quote:

I first heard it in Wuhan

An old friend of mine from Wuhan never used the “r” sound, but would pronounce 什么 as,
“sh’ma?”

tooironic -

About the er hua, I don't think it's a contraction, as not all 儿 words, contrary to popular
belief, take out the previous syllable entirely. Take 爱好儿 for example. From the native
speakers I've heard pronouncing it, the 'er' here does not completely 'take over' the 'hao', there
is in fact a small gap between the two - effectively there isn't much of a contraction at all.

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so.many.words -

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风味豆豉油制辣椒
油辣椒
香辣脆油辣椒
辣三丁油辣椒
干煸肉丝油辣椒
精制牛肉末豆豉油辣椒
肉丝豆豉油辣椒
风味鸡油辣椒

yep it is the last one 风味鸡油辣椒 and I have been sitting here all afternoon trying to get
up the courage to try it again knowing that the big pieces might be chicken lips or bones and
wondering if I should crunch them or politely put them in my napkin.

Quote:

A quick look at the ingredients suggests that a lot have beans in and one has peanuts, but the
chicken one has neither.

OH MY GOD ...OH MY GOD ...tell me WHAT IS IN THE CHICKEN ONE!!!!!

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floatingmoon -

Quote:

Quote:
You don't what is it, and you choose to eat it?

There was a picture of a person in an apron on the label, but I didnt expect there would be one in
the bottle ....
You make it sound like I was rooting through a rubbish bin.

The grocery store was in Australia and I did say I was in the chilli section ...If you are a
chilli person then you would understand ....if you are not then I will not understand

so.many.words:

I don't mean to have any negative purpose.
I was just thinking, "wow, you have guts to eat something before know what you are eating."

so.many.words -

Oh no!! ..you never said anything wrong ...I would never think that...

Quote:

"wow, you have guts to eat something before know what you are eating."

I think you missed how funny this is .....

floatingmoon -

okie dokie

mr.stinky -

"but what I did not know was that an eggplant could look like a part of the anatomy of a
donkey. IT WAS HUGE!!"

are you sure it was eggplant?????????

studentyoung -

Quote:

Chicken lips? Hmm...? Well, as far as I know, chicken has a beak. Chicken lips? Hmm… It sounds
quite confusing.

Quote:

OH MY GOD ...OH MY GOD ...tell me WHAT IS IN THE CHICKEN ONE!!!!!

Quote:

陶华碧老干妈牌风味鸡油辣椒是贵州的风味食品，
几十年来一直沿用传统工艺精心酿造，具有优雅细腻、香辣突出、回味悠长�
��特点。成分：菜籽油、辣椒、鸡肉(带骨) (chicken meat with
bone)、味精、食盐、大蒜、白砂糖、花椒

http://cache.baidu.com/c?word=%B7%E7...dcf&user=baidu
Take it easy. I think those big pieces you mentioned above might be chicken meat with bones, like
those you might have in KFC or McDonal's.(But Loaganma doesn't deep fry them, and that's it.) Are
you feeling better now?

Cheers!

so.many.words -

I am sorry to have to add such a posting but I am certain now that my disposition for eating
anything in a jar is having a serious effect upon my wellbeing and I am not sure if I can carry
on. (actually I think I am very good at carrying on!! )

...there is only a tablespoon of it left, ...what am I going to do ....I live many many miles from
a Chinese Grocery, and well I am just not sure I can do without this jar of chilli chicken lips
(and other organs).

IT WAS BLOODY YUM!!!!!

If I made soup stock then I would add a tablespoon, if I made wontons (pan stickers) then I mixed
the Loaganma with the fillings, I used it as a sambal on noodle soups, I marinated chicken in it
then pan fried it, I used it as a condiment on barbecued pork, and for a snack it was great in
noodles with fried egg.

Ohhh my fat little belly ....what am I going to feed you next.

Next time I go to the Chinese grocery, 我要买三瓶

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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

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Luobot -

酷！

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geek_frappa -

this is super!

roddy -

Quick issue - testing out the implementation on the forums, and it seems that line breaks are not
preserved. If I attempt to annotate

你好

你好。

I get the text back, but not the spacing.

trevelyan -

Let me take a look at it. Can probably figure out what is going on.

That being said, I honestly think you'll get a much more usable site using the automatic wrapping
that the WordPress plugin provides. It breaks up the annotating span tags at every ASCII entry, so
you'd have two bits to annotate rather than one, and the response time will be faster.

trevelyan -

Was defensively stripping tags before processing text. Have disabled this for now. But really
think you should be marking up only the Chinese content for submission. I'll send you an email
with the code that will do this automatically.

roddy -

Yeah, I can understand that - however, if I'm going to let people tag stuff on the forums I can't
guarantee that they will . . .

It's not a major issue though, just something I noticed during testing.

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积雄为健, what does it mean? Thank you.

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xiaobai -

就是积少成多,积弱成强的意思。

是武侠小说里的？

It is tantamount to "every little makes a mickle".

Nikar -

积雄为健, from the way I see it, means:

Amassing masculinity (or manhood) as a way of health, or
Amassing masculinity (or manhood) is healthy

Did you get the sentence from some spam e-mail promising to enlarge your reproductive organs?

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mandel1luke -

Xiaobao, you might be right, where did you get the definition?

And no, I did not get it from spam mails. And the second meaning is certainly wrong

Sometimes also 积健为雄.

艺术家要恢复的就是这种积雄为健的艺术精神

“积健为雄”这句话，出自唐代司空图的《诗品·雄浑》。

Can't find it in my dictionary.

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Shadowdh -

Hi all, I have been thinking about getting another tattoo, its only in the thought stages at the
moment... just mulling over some ideas and was wondering if anyone can help me translate the below
into Chinese. Is it possible to use four 2 character combinations?

Banish Uncertainty; Affirm Strength; Hold Resolve; Expect Death

You might recognise this from my signature... its something that strikes a cord with me... thanks
in advance... cheers

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rootfool -

I recommend "袪疑" for the first.(I suppose the "uncertainty" means "unsure of sth")
And "盼终" for the forth.(I only know these character means death and I choose the one which I
think is the most proper:死，薨，崩，毙，逝，殒，殁，夭，终)
my english is not very good so I can't know the exact meaning of the other two words.

Hmm,it's just a personal opinion.

muyongshi -

亡 can also mean death...盼亡 might work and it sounds like 盼望

Shadowdh -

Thanks for the help... I like what we have so far... I will see if I cant explain the words in
more non english as a first language terms... Thats a good point I didnt think of... cheers

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LostInHeaven -

On behalf of my boyfriend, how do you write "Life smells good" in mandarin, traditional?

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skylee -

Consider 生命好香.

xiaocai -

Just wondering if "活色声香" would be appropriate here...

Typo correction: should be "活色生香".

rootfool -

Quote:

Just wondering if "活色声香" would be appropriate here

hmm.did you mean "活色生香"?

LostInHeaven -

thank you ^^

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All fixed.

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Email functionality will be on and off while we're trying to track down the problem here. Got me
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And once more for luck . . .

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test again

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