第两百二十八天

[nnozomi]

语法
还在 V, still doing X (top of page)
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Continuation_with_%22hai%22

词汇
票, ticket; also 门票, [entrance] ticket, 车票, [train or bus] ticket, 机票, plane ticket 票 piào, ticket; also 门票 mén piào, [entrance] ticket, 车票 chē piào, [train or bus] ticket, 机票 jī piào, plane ticket
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-1-word-list/

Link to introductory grammar (day 13)

Guardian:
薇薇她还在等我, Weiwei is still waiting for me
你还在为郭长城的事担心吗, are you still worrying about Guo Changcheng?
我就特别喜欢一个人来这种地方又不要门票也没有规矩, I used to love coming to places like this alone, where you don't need a ticket and there are no rules.

Me:
我还在打哈欠，吃早饭之后才能醒完。
新干线的车票非常贵。

Comments

[yaaurens]

Despite my lack of comments here, 我还在学中文！ (I don't know if that's actually the right grammatical usage, but I think one of the examples was similar)

我要买飞机的票去纽约。

[nnozomi]

Despite my lack of comments here, 我还在学中文！
我相信你! (No worry about commenting unless you feel like it ;) ) And it does sound grammatically right, at least to me.

我要买飞机的票去纽约。
我也想去纽约...太远了...

[yaaurens]

I would like to have more brain to leave comments, in a more thoughtful way, but alas. My brain is swiss cheese.

[nnozomi]

I would like to have more brain to leave comments, in a more thoughtful way, but alas. My brain is swiss cheese.
hey, swiss cheese tastes nice (not planning to eat your brain). 别着急, the posts will be here any time you feel like reading and/or commenting, no worries.

[profiterole_reads]

I saw "ticket", thought "pyo in Korean" and I wasn't far away from it. lol

[nnozomi]

I saw "ticket", thought "pyo in Korean" and I wasn't far away from it.
Yes! Cognates are so great.

[presumenothing]

It's pio in Hokkien as well! (anecdotally, of the various dialects, Hokkien seems the most cognate-y to Korean* from my very limited knowledge, which probably has Historical Reasons™️ in language origins and etc)

(*even more so than Hokkien and/or Chinese in general vs Japanese imo, which in turn makes me wonder whether the wider Korean syllabary(?) has something to do with it)

[profiterole_reads]

I looked at the area where Hokkien is spoken. It's more in the South than Korea, but there must have been migrations at some point.

[nnozomi]

I googled a little bit and found this site, which looks like fun: http://cch4hokkien.blogspot.com/2012/11/hokkiens-connection-with-tang-dynasty.html

[profiterole_reads]

Interesting. Some of the Korean words are weirdly spelt though, but I get the idea.

[nnozomi]

Yeah, it's not all that scholarly but still an interesting starting point.