第七十天

[nnozomi]

Review day! Below are the points covered this week, for catching up if you missed a day or want to practice a bit more or have extra questions or...

语法
差不多, chàbuduō, about/roughly
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Approximations_with_%22chabuduo%22
都， dōu， for quantity
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Emphasizing_quantity_with_%22dou%22
在，zài， + verb for -ing
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_actions_in_progress_with_%22zai%22
一直, yīzhí，constantly, all along
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22all_along%22_with_%22yizhi%22
已经, yǐjing， already
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22already%22_with_%22yijing%22

词汇
爱好, ài hào, hobby
白, bái, white （白天 bái tiān，明白 míngbai）
半, bàn , half （半天 bàn tiān，半年 bàn nián，一半 yí bàn）
帮, bāng, help （帮忙 bāng máng）
包, bāo，bag/package （包子 bāo zi，面包 miànbāo，钱包 qián bāo，书包 shū bāo）
杯， bēi, cup (杯子bēi zi)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-1-word-list/

Also it's still 第七天, so if you want to throw grammar to the winds and post something to relax with, that also works.

Guardian, in brief:
啊，幸运你给我喝了一杯咖啡，要不然我可真的要睡过去了... in hopes that the sleepy among us will have less dangerous coffee...

Also, as a 已经 example, have Zhu Yilong singing 后会无期。 Not to end the week on a sad note or anything, oh dear.

Comments

[grayswandir]

silly but also wonderful song

Hah, this is cute. :) And I like that it's simple enough that I can actually understand some of it!

don't give shoes! or umbrellas!

I did not know this! And actually, I'm watching a show right now where someone gave his wife a new pair of shoes, and then their house was burned down shortly afterward. I guess Chinese viewers would have suspected something bad was going to happen as soon as they saw shoes being given as a gift!

The only gift-giving superstitions I knew about before were clocks, pears, and things in sets of four. I hadn't heard about umbrellas or shoes, so I just went to look up other things not to give as gifts, and wow, it seems like there are a lot. :/ Mirrors, antiques, old gems, cloth dolls, knives or sharp objects, handkerchiefs, yellow chrysanthemums, anything black or white, candles, wind chimes...

(I can now see that the Hong Kong mystery/horror series I watched a little while back had a lot more superstition references than I realized. Yellow chrysanthemums were given as gifts multiple times, and there was a creepy cloth doll gift and an antique coin gift. I wonder how many other not-so-subtle references I'm missing.)

[yaaurens]

So. Many. Superstitions! It's always interesting to me to see what cultures view as good or bad luck, and when similar things overlap in many cultures. Also, I suppose with so many more homophones in Chinese, you get a lot more of items being associated with bad or unlucky things.