第三年第一百十六天

[nnozomi]

Okay, I've been racking my brains about what to do about grammar from next week on (while also keeping up some chengyu) and I have an idea. How do people feel about review grammar points in random order? (Better ideas very welcome!)

成语
Review: 成语 with numbers other than 1 in them
千辛万苦 trials and tribulations, many struggles (lit. "one thousand pains and ten thousand sufferings")
三姑六婆 gossipy women (relatives), women in unrespectable professions (lit. three aunts and six grandmothers)
百思不解 incomprehensible, perplexing (lit. incomprehensible even thinking 100 times)
三番五次 over and over again (lit. three times, five times)
千思万楼 linked in many ways (lit. a thousand threads, ten thousand strands)
千辛万苦 qiānxīn wànkǔ; 三姑六婆 sāngū liùpó; 百思不解 bǎisī bùjiě; 三番五次 sānfān wǔcì; 千思万楼 qiān sī wàn lǚ

词汇
必然, inevitable; 必要, necessary; 不必, don't have to 必然 bìrán, inevitable; 必要 bìyào, necessary; 不必 búbì, don't have to
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
我没有必要做梦, I don't need to dream
小伤而已，恩人不必担心, it's only a scratch, you needn't worry

Me:
你必然会说这样。
我必要剪子，你有没有？

Comments

[trobadora]

We could probably all use some grammar review!

[nnozomi]

I know I could, oh dear. ;)

[donutsweeper]

Grammar review would be wonderful!

I really love 千辛万苦, it works perfectly.

[nnozomi]

I really love 千辛万苦, it works perfectly.
Too true!

[grayswandir]

Random grammar review sounds fine to me! There have been plenty of grammar points I've either missed or just didn't have time to think about when they got posted before, so it would be good to see them again. :)

I wonder whether people might interact more in the comments if there were some kind of reminder in the daily posts about sharing quotes from shows/wherever or making up sentences with the day's vocab/grammar? Though I know it's in the sticky post, and maybe everyone is just busy or shy.. I was just thinking about it since I always like seeing comment threads here!

[trobadora]

That's a good point about show quotes, I wish people did those more! I completely got out of the habit myself; I should get back to that ...

[nnozomi]

There have been plenty of grammar points I've either missed or just didn't have time to think about when they got posted before, so it would be good to see them again.
Yeah, I definitely can't always grasp everything on the first (or tenth...) pass through.

I wonder whether people might interact more in the comments if there were some kind of reminder in the daily posts about sharing quotes from shows/wherever or making up sentences with the day's vocab/grammar?
That's a good point!