第三百六十四天

[nnozomi]

语法
来 used to mean "do it," etc. rather than "come"
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Using_%22lai%22_as_a_dummy_verb
不用 + verb, "don't need to X"
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22don%27t_need_to%22_with_%22buyong%22
得 + verb phrase, "must ~~"
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22must%22_with_%22dei%22
少 + verb, "do X less" (as a command)
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Doing_something_less_with_%22shao%22
多 + verb phrase, "do more X"
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Doing_something_more_with_%22duo%22
正在 + V + 着 + 呢, doing X now
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_actions_in_progress_(full_form)

词汇
笔, pen; 笔记, note(s); 笔记本, notebook
必须, must
边, side; 海边, seaside; 路边, roadside; 身边, near at hand
变，变成，改变, all meaning "change"
遍, [do something X] times
表 or 手表, (wrist)watch; 表示, express
笔 bǐ, pen; 笔记 bǐjì, note(s); 笔记本 bǐjìběn, notebook
必须 bìxū, must
边 biān, side; 海边 hǎibiān, seaside; 路边 lùbiān, roadside; 身边 shēnbiān, near at hand
变 biàn，变成 biànchéng，改变 gǎibiàn, all meaning "change"
遍 biàn, [do something X] times
表 biǎo or 手表 shǒubiǎo, (wrist)watch; 表示 biǎoshì, express
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-2-word-list/

玩玩
Because I was making soup the other day, have some Chinese names for (mostly Western) kitchen herbs and (mostly Chinese) ones. There are a few glitches in the hanzi and pinyin in the first link, but they look okay on the whole? Interesting to notice what a huge range 桂 covers in all its variations, from 桂花, my favorite osmanthus flowers, through 月桂 laurel and 肉桂 cinnamon and goodness knows what else.

咱们明天会庆祝一周年，一直好好学习好好生活吧！

Comments

[sakana17]

I got this link from Tumblr, where a fan found a YouTube video making the kind of noodles Bai Yu had posted to his Weibo a couple of weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfvWtxbdqko
And I ended up watching a bunch of this chef's videos.

[trobadora]

Damn, why are cooking videos so compelling even if you understand one word in ten?

[sakana17]

why are cooking videos so compelling even if you understand one word in ten?

I understood one word in a hundred, yet kept watching video after video. Partly it was watching a master at work (my competence kink is showing), partly it was trying to figure out what things were, and also the videos had pretty good pacing (not too fast and not too slow).

[nnozomi]

Those are great, thank you! As trobadora says, there's something so soothing about watching cooking videos (even more when I don't understand all the speech)...and they do have C-subtitles!

[sakana17]

:D I was going to call them "soothing," but the chef's voice seems a bit loud, or at least not exactly soothing. But even so, I find the videos soothing to watch.