This is me but with China, since people just think of them as basically the same place.
Is this what racism feels like?
I think it’s graze :kelly:
You disliked it because of its messaging. I disliked it because I wanted more aliens. We are not the same.
Posting neat Chinese phrases whenever I feel like #4
(huà shé tiān zú)
Literally: “draw snake add feet”
Figuratively: “overdo; overembellish”
we all know and love those nonsense HACKING PASSWORD
scenes, now crank that up to 11, add some dubious English accents and keyboard smashing: [40:47-41:40]
yeah 临时 can mean both of these and more, in any case it means that it’s out of the ordinary. i tried to get the literal translations in the same order and roughly the same length as the original, and English doesn’t have a neat way of saying this 🤷
Posting neat Chinese phrases whenever I feel like #3
(lín shí bào fó jiǎo)
Literally: “temporarily embrace Buddha’s feet”
Figuratively: “profess devotion only when in trouble; make a hasty last minute effort”
the death machine NEED MORE MONEY PLS MR PREZIDNT GIVE MONE
I think it’s pretty telling that the original sea lion comic is just a guy being racist and getting annoyed when the sea lion calls him out on said racism
Posting neat Chinese phrases whenever I feel like #2
(shí yán ér féi)
Literally: “eat word [and thus] fat”
Figuratively: “repeatedly break one’s promises”
admittedly a rather gay drama but w/e (word of honor)
too little onion
Posting neat Chinese phrases whenever I feel like #1
(pāo zhuān yǐn yù)
Literally: “throw brick pull jade”
Figuratively: “this is just my dumb ass opinion but I’m putting it out here to start the discussion, in the hopes that someone will correct me be inspired to say something wise”
Everyone’s learning Mandarin lol. I’ve been on and off for a few years but should get back into it, 亡羊补牢!
I’ve tried to learn the Arabic alphabet a few times but I just can’t keep track of the dots. Are there other ways to group the letters that help learning?
1st tone ā - a high flat tone, like singing
2nd tone á - rising, from the middle to the top, like a question
3rd tone ǎ - low tone, as low as you can, it often becomes vocal fry. (also rises a bit at the end of sentences or in isolation)
4th tone à - falling, from the top to the bottom, sounds angry
there’s also a secret “neutral tone” that happens to the second syllable of many two-syllable words, or for grammatical particles. it changes tone height based on where the previous tone ended, so basically if the previous tone ends low, the neutral tone is high and vice versa. these syllables are also shorter in duration and some diphthongs are flattened.
wojak but it’s 我jak and it’s literally me
Maybe I’m coping, but I find it smoother to just have my phone up to manually type pinyin into pleco and it acts as a natural hearing comprehension test. If I fail that, I still have the characters shown on the video so there’s now a bonus handwriting test
I think you could even read the CPC rep saying 再降四分钱 to imply “how about you drop dead and divvy up your money” (but I’m a noob + definitely reading too much into it)
维基百科? more like 危机百科 amirite?