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

[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...)