第八十四天

[nnozomi]

This week's content:
语法
只 + verb, only/just...
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22only%22_with_%22zhi%22
就, then
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22then%22_with_%22jiu%22
一边 X，一边 Y （do X while doing Y, two simultaneous things)
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Simultaneous_tasks_with_%22yibian%22
一样, the same (X 跟/和 Y 一样，X is the same as Y)
一样 + adjective, as ~ as
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Basic_comparisons_with_%22yiyang%22
有点, a little (too) ~ (also 有一点 or in northern dialects 有点儿), followed by negative adjectives
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22a_little_too%22_with_%22you_dian%22

词汇
茶, tea
差, different/bad/short of
常, often (also 常常, likewise "often," and 非常, "very" (ie "extraordinarily"))
唱, sing, also 唱歌
车, car/vehicle (also 车票, [train] ticket; 车上, in the car; 车站, station; 打车, take a taxi; 火车, train; 开车, drive; 汽车, car; 上车, get in/on; 下车, get out/off)
吃, to eat (also 吃饭, eat a meal, and 好吃, tasty)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-1-word-list/

玩玩
I have absolutely nothing exciting to offer today except some nice and/or useful words which have come up in Chinese conversation practice: to wit 折叠伞, folding umbrella; 鲑鱼, salmon, and 鲑鱼子, salmon roe/ikura; 三色堇, pansies; 薰衣草, lavender (the flower); 浇水 and 晒太阳, watering and sunning (plants) respectively. Anyone who has a song or a nice phrase or something useful or interesting to post, please do!

事务
Tags slightly revised, pinyin and masterlist of links etc. coming up from tomorrow or so on, keep me posted about what else you'd like to see.

Comments

[trobadora]

I know 晒太阳 from SHL, as sunbathing! So funny how we pick up our vocabulary.

[nnozomi]

I know 晒太阳 from SHL, as sunbathing!
Love it! Works for both people and plants, then.

[presumenothing]

• Music: Tengger's performance of 锦鲤抄 – he can always be counted on for bringing his own unique touch to even well-known songs (see also his covers of 芒种 and 热爱105度的你, both of which are virtually unrecognisable (in a good way) from their originals).
• Words: I only ever call salmon 三文鱼 LOL density of loanwords by regional use. Also funnily enough, I just realised it's 晒衣服 instead for laundry, even though it's also the sun you're 晒ing it under??
• General: Noticed the other day that Freerice (aka the UN World Food Programme's "answer questions correctly to donate rice") now has Chinese question categories! Including characters, phrases, and pinyin to English (jury's out on how I feel about that last one, though I do see its relevance). Available to play right in the browser, 大家一边学习一边做善事吧～

[grayswandir]

I don't know the originals, but I'm enjoying the songs you linked! 腾格尔 seems really familiar, but I can't figure out where I've seen him before... (My first thought was the Olympics song, but he's not on the performer list for that, so it must have been somewhere else.)

[presumenothing]

Music-wise (and more realistically Zhou Shen-related LOL) I know Tengger from their 大鱼的天堂 duet that I'm contractually obliged to share at every opportunity, and this utterly hilarious bit](https://youtu.be/mx4S7VrdV-Y) on Bilibili's 11th anniversary.

He's also appeared on Singer 2018 and more recently Time Concert? Among the stuff I've sorta-watched, at least.

[grayswandir]

大鱼的天堂 duet

Oh, wow. Saving this link.

[nnozomi]

ooh, I see what you mean about the unique performance touch! Neat.

I only ever call salmon 三文鱼
okay, first I looked at the characters and thought "三文, that sounds way too cheap for salmon," and then I pronounced it in Japanese and went "...oh wait...sanmon...salmon..." and now I'm completely confused but I feel like there's a delicious pun in there somewhere.
I just realised it's 晒衣服 instead for laundry, even though it's also the sun you're 晒ing it under??
Huh! Maybe for laundry the 晒 radical does all the work? (So many words for "dry" in Chinese, 晒 and 擦 and I feel like there are others I'm forgetting...

Freerice.com! I make my English tutoring kids do the English-to-English vocab one a lot, it's great. I wish they had a wider range of Chinese levels available, but it's a neat start.

[presumenothing]

"三文, that sounds way too cheap for salmon,"

なにそれすごい発想ですww (then again, 一文不值 does still exist as an idiom)

Wikipedia notes 三文 as a Cantonese 音译, which does check out (thanks grayswandir for pointing out the existence of Canto audio in Pleco LOL I only know 三 otherwise).

Suddenly remembered the existence of 晾衣服 – this is probably the more standard!correct answer, though I'd never use it myself…

[nnozomi]

なにそれすごい発想ですww (then again, 一文不值 does still exist as an idiom)
Must be the same thing. I think I was thinking of 二足三文 and so on...

晾衣服
noted, thanks! 亮亮的太阳（月亮？）下，晾漂亮的衣服...

[grayswandir]

I've been listening to this (Mandarin!) album recently, so here's a song link: 风沙 - 梁朝伟 (Tony Leung). :)

[nnozomi]

...okay, wow, Tony Leung... also the lyric presentation is super helpful!

[elenothar]

After I spent several minutes trying to remember which one I'd already recced, here's another Wang Kai song, because I'm still distracted: 心上的繭

[sakana17]

Oh, thank you for the Wang Kai! <3

[elenothar]

Always happy to spread the love <3

[trobadora]

That is lovely!

[elenothar]

I love Wang Kai's voice 🥺

[nnozomi]

Oh, isn't that gorgeous. *sniff*

[elenothar]

😊