第一百一十二天

[nnozomi]

Weekly review
语法
刚才 + verb, something just happened this minute
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22just_now%22_with_%22gangcai%22
~的时候, when something happens/happened
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22when%22_with_%22de_shihou%22
General future with 以后 (opposite of general past with 以前)
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/In_the_future_in_general_with_%22yihou%22
Word order for time words: either at the beginning or after the subject, but not at the end!
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Time_words_and_word_order
Approximate amounts with sequential numbers, ie "two or three," etc.
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Approximating_with_sequential_numbers
分 for minutes
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Structure_of_times_(advanced) (first half of page)

词汇
都, all
读, to read (also 读书, reading/studying)
对, correct/right (also 不对, wrong, and 对不起, I'm sorry)
多, many/much/more (also 多少, how much)
饿, hungry
儿子, son
都 dōu, all
读 dú, to read (also 读书 dú shū, reading/studying)
对 duì, correct/right (also 不对 bú duì, wrong, and 对不起 duìbuqǐ, I'm sorry)
多 duō, many/much/more (also 多少 duōshao, how much)
饿 è, hungry
儿子 érzi, son
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-1-word-list/

玩玩
Since it came up in conversation, here’s 梦开始的地方, a sweet song featuring Zhu Yilong and 吉克隽逸 (I’ve seen her name as both Junyi and Juanyi?) among others. Also a couple of phrases new to me, 该来的就会来 (what goes around comes around?) and 眼睛都看花了, a delightful way to say “I’m dizzy.”

大家都周末（周一）愉快！

Comments

[elenothar]

This week's song is a collaboration between Li Jian and Li Keqin, both of whom I rather like: 花火

[presumenothing]

Today's tune: Zhou Shen's duet of 调查中, which may be familiar to anyone who watched 开端/Reset! And also just a mindblowingly good performance overall.

Passing on a link from Discord – Readibu for adding pinyin and definitions to Chinese reading!

TIL 隽 has two readings (juàn and jùn) but I'm quite certain it's Junyi for her name. And I suppose I'd do 该来的就会来 as more of "what shall be will be" instead? What goes around in the sense of eye for an eye has the delightfully vindictive-sounding 善有善报恶有恶报.

眼花 is generally applicable for being cross-eyed x_x though it also goes for aging-induced Bad Vision (老花眼 aka… presbyopia? I think? in the much less colloquial English)

今天是我的生日！噢耶

[trobadora]

生日快乐！！！

And 谢谢 for the Readibu link, that looks very useful.

Also, 善有善报恶有恶报 does indeed sound delightfully vindictive. :D

[nnozomi]

I was not expecting it to have bits of "Bridge over Troubled Water" here and there, but I love it! Works perfectly for the song. And if I'm right it's a bilingual Mandarin-Cantonese duet, neat...

[nnozomi]

Zhou Shen's duet of 调查中, which may be familiar to anyone who watched 开端/Reset!
Everyone keeps telling me to watch 开端 (including at least one RL friend) and maybe soon I will...that's a gripping song. (Also, 眼镜太可爱了吧！）

Passing on a link from Discord – Readibu for adding pinyin and definitions to Chinese reading!
Thank you! Added to the list of links etc. that I really am going to put together and post sometime soon.

but I'm quite certain it's Junyi for her name. And I suppose I'd do 该来的就会来 as more of "what shall be will be" instead? What goes around in the sense of eye for an eye has the delightfully vindictive-sounding 善有善报恶有恶报. 眼花 is generally applicable for being cross-eyed x_x though it also goes for aging-induced Bad Vision
各种各种谢谢，那该来的就会来 is almost word for word "che sera sera"... (善有善报恶有恶报 sounds like something Zhao Xinci would say and I appreciate it.)
用中文看花，用英语看星星？ Doesn't work for old-eye 老眼 though.

生日翌日快乐！