第一百一十九天

[nnozomi]

Weekly review

语法
刻 for quarter hours
差 for minutes until the hour
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Structure_of_times_(advanced)
几 + measure word to mean “several”
几 + numbers: a few dozen/tens, a few hundred, etc.
好几, "quite a few"
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Using_%22ji%22_to_mean_%22several%22
了 to indicate change of state: having-become-X
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Change_of_state_with_%22le%22

词汇
饭, rice/meal (also 吃饭, to eat a meal, 饭店, a restaurant, 米饭, (cooked) rice, 早饭, breakfast, 午饭, lunch, 晚饭, dinner)
房间, room, and 房子, house
放, to let out/discharge/put (also 放假, have a holiday, and 放学, holiday from school)
飞, to fly (also 飞机, airplane)
非常, extremely/very (literally "unusual, emergency")
分, minute (or point/part/etc.)
饭 fàn, rice/meal (also 吃饭 chī fàn, to eat a meal, 饭店 fàndiàn, a restaurant, 米饭 mǐfàn, (cooked) rice, 早饭 zǎo fàn, breakfast, 午饭 wǔ fàn, lunch, 晚饭 wǎn fàn, dinner)
房间 fángjiān, room, and 房子 fángzi, house
放 fàng, to let out/discharge/put (also 放假 fàng jià, have a holiday, and 放学 fàng xué, holiday from school)
飞 fēi, to fly (also 飞机 fēijī, airplane)
非常 fēicháng, extremely/very (literally "unusual, emergency")
分 fēn, minute (or point/part/etc.)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-1-word-list/

玩玩
Kind of a random song today--I don't know how I arrived at it and I don't recognize either the song or the singer, but I like it: 如燕 covered by 朱兴东.

事务
I've updated the sticky post a bit to include a list of links sourced from various helpful suggestions, let me know if you have anything to add/change/etc.

周末或者周一愉快！

Comments

[trobadora]

Since you're asking for dictionary sites in the sticky post, the one I usually use is MDBG:
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary

And on mobile, the dictionary app I use is Pleco:
https://www.pleco.com/

[cathyw]

I do like the mdbg.net dictionary - I have gotten very good at drawing unknown characters from TV subtitles with a mouse. :)

[trobadora]

I'm terrible at that; I usually rely on the character components for unfamiliar characters.

[nnozomi]

Respect! I like MDBG too, but my handwriting is even worse with a mouse...

[nnozomi]

Will add to the list, thank you! I like MDBG too, now that I'm reminded of it, but like you rely on the radicals etc. rather than drawing them myself...

[elenothar]

Not a song rec this week, but I just watched AvenueX's video about music notation on the qin and found it fascinating: here.

[nnozomi]

Oh wow, that is fascinating (and very inspiring for fantasy writing!)

[presumenothing]

Because I've got it stuck in my head from talking with elenothar: 无限 by (of course) Zhou Shen, especially in the live version!

Also, 母亲节快乐～ (albeit belatedly, in this end of Time)

For dictionaries, I actually like the default ones available in the Mac inbuilt dictionary app, both ZH/EN and ZH/ZH! Everything else I just pull off good ol' Google with relevant search terms added.

[nnozomi]

无限 by (of course) Zhou Shen, especially in the live version!
Oh, of course! How did I not put together that that was Zhou Shen? Lovely <3

Also, 母亲节快乐～ (albeit belatedly, in this end of Time)
哈哈可爱死了. 我妈她把母亲节嫌弃，所以我总是记不得。。。

I actually like the default ones available in the Mac inbuilt dictionary app, both ZH/EN and ZH/ZH!
Will add a note, thank you!

Everything else I just pull off good ol' Google with relevant search terms added.
不只是我呢，比较安心

[sakana17]

wenella posted new photos from Zhu Yilong's studio, and in the one where he's eating noodles, I could read all but one word (the word for "garlic"), which made me feel "yay! progress!" - except I didn't correctly guess the meaning of the sentence. -_- Oh, well!

[presumenothing]

I like how the garlic one rhymes!

Transcripts in order because why not:

哈喽

吃面不吃蒜
香味少一半

拥抱自然

[trobadora]

Thank you! Much appreciated! ♥

[yaaurens]

Thanks for the transcript, because I could not read that handwriting!

Also, that's not the word I've learned for garlic, interesting!

[nnozomi]

Thanks for the transcript, because I could not read that handwriting!
Me neither aagh.

Which is your garlic word? I know that one as part of 大蒜, but I've never seen it without the 大. (I always remember it as 我打算吃大蒜, which is usually true anyway)

[yaaurens]

Now that I'm thinking/looking at it harder, I think I have the same experience you do, 大蒜, but I'm just not familiar enough with it (I've only seen it in my Drops app!) to recognize it as the same character without the 大 in front of it!

[nnozomi]

I kind of like 蒜 now that I'm used to it--you can see the little fringes of roots at the bottom, ready to be planted and grow more garlic... (/inaccurate both botanically and character-wise)

[nnozomi]

Thank you! (Okay, two of my wild guesses were quite wrong, 少一半 not 少一点, 拥抱 not 抱抱...) why is handwriting.

[presumenothing]

Now that actually writing stuff doesn't happen anymore, I'm half convinced the real benefit of familiarity with stroke order is the fact that it does help when trying to decipher handwriting…

[nnozomi]

I'm half convinced the real benefit of familiarity with stroke order is the fact that it does help when trying to decipher handwriting
Yes, I think I was actually told this in some version or other when originally learning Japanese (probably because my Japanese professor was having enough trouble reading my handwriting already...)

[sakana17]

Thank you so much for the transcripts!

Awwww, I hadn't come across 哈喽 before.

ETA: Yeah, I was *never* going to get 然 from the handwriting. :D Thank you again!

[presumenothing]

Haha, yeah, this 然 is definitely a case of "I can read what it says because I guessed what it probably was anyway" XD

[nnozomi]

which made me feel "yay! progress!" - except I didn't correctly guess the meaning of the sentence.
Absolutely, and same.

(Also, Z1L arguing for the importance of garlic made me feel that I absolutely chose the right person to 追星 lol 🧄)

[donutsweeper]

The dictionary site I use is https://dictionary.hantrainerpro.com/

I've just started on ChineSimple's HSK1 Learn Chinese app but it has a lot of different things - word games, sentence games, stories, flashcards etc. And for people with much greater skill than I the developer offers HSK2-5 as well.

[nnozomi]

Thank you! I'll add those to the list. ChineSimple is a new one on me and sounds really interesting.