三人行，必有我师(焉)

I'm still working my way through the various "songs with 鱼 in the title" submitted for yesterday's game, but they all look great! Game is ongoing and I suspect there are many, many 鱼 songs we haven't gotten to yet, so feel free to jump in (one or many times).

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人 part 8
仰, to admire/look up; 件, counter for things, clothes, etc.; 价, price ( ”pinyin” )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=9

语法
Chapter 4 quiz: 的, relative clauses, noun clauses
https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9781138651142/quizzes.php

词汇
设备, equipment; 设计, design; 设立, establish; 建设, build ( ”pinyin” )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
你得答应我一件事, you have to promise me one thing
如果今天站在这里的是老板，站在那里的是我，他也会做一样的决定, if it was the boss standing here today and me standing there, he would make the same decision
我不太擅长使用电子设备, I'm not very good at using electronic equipment

Me:
一个月之间这么涨价，我服了。
这个建筑师她亲自设计的。

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人 part 6
代, substitute/generation; 令, order/make; 以, by means of ( ”pinyin” )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=9

语法
Chapter 3 quiz: 是，在，有
https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9781138651142/quizzes.php

词汇
商品, commodity; 商业, business ( ”pinyin” )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
咱们就以水代酒, we'll drink water instead of alcohol
你是龙城市商业圈的龙头, you're a leader of the Dragon City business community

Me:
那部电影令人很感动。
这仅仅是一个商品，没有那么重要。

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人 part 4
从, from; 仓, storehouse; 仔, young animal, young man ( ”pinyin” )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=9

语法
Chapter 2 quiz: 11 types of questions
https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9781138651142/quizzes.php

词汇
沙发, sofa; 沙子, sand ( ”pinyin” )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
我从头到尾都是无辜呀, I'm innocent from head to toe
你到底有没有在听我说的话, are you listening to me or NOT?
[no 沙发, notwithstanding the prominent presence of sofas...]

Me:
我喜欢穿牛仔裤。
你累了吧，躺一下在沙发上歇一会儿。

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人 part 2 rén
仁, humane; 仅, only; 仇, hatred/enemy ( ”pinyin” )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=9

语法
Testing a new grammar site: these are quizzes from a Routledge grammar textbook which are apparently available without logging in, signing up, etc., they should keep us going for a couple of months. There is no direct link to each individual quiz (as far as I can tell), so for today, click on CHAPTER 1. (Or don't, you know, I'm not the boss of you.) Let me know if we should keep using these or if you'd rather do something else!
https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9781138651142/quizzes.php

词汇
如何, how (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
仅仅因为她天生和别人不一样就该受到不公平的待遇吗, should she be treated unfairly just because she was born different from other people?
现在在我面前没有熟人，只有仇人和挡我路的人, right now I have no acquaintances, only enemies and people who get in my way.
我还不知道该如何报答你呢, I don't know how I should make amends to you

Me:
你小心啊，他很记仇。
无论如何，我会回来再见你。

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二, part 2
云, cloud; 互, mutual; 五, five ( ”pinyin” )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=7

词汇
人才, talented person; 人工, artificial; 人类, human being; 人民, the people; 人民币, RMB: 人群, crowd; 人生, life; 人员, personnel; 动人, moving; 个人, personal/individual; 华人, ethnic Chinese; 亲人, relative; 熟人, acquaintance ( ”pinyin” )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
有机会的话你们可以互相讨论讨论, you two can talk together if you have a chance
人生的还有很多滋味等着你呢, there are still so many flavors of life awaiting you

Me:
要不咱么爬一下山躺在草地上看看流云吧。
人类和猫可能不太互相了解。

成语
咄咄逼人 overbearing, aggressive, pushy
人心惶惶 people are anxious
二人世界 a couple absorbed in a romantic atmosphere (lit. a world of two people)
( ”pinyin” )

词汇
课程, curriculum; 功课, schoolwork ( ”pinyin” )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
我的确实是想找一个徒弟，但绝对不会像你们这样咄咄逼人的, I'm certainly looking for an apprentice, but definitely not a pushy one like you lot
现在怎么办？大家都人心惶惶的, what should we do? Everyone's very anxious
老大，你是不是巴不得我们全军覆没，好留你跟沈老师二人世界, boss, are you hoping we'll all fail and leave you and Shen-laoshi to make heart-eyes at each other?
[no 课 words of this kind]

Me:
跟她开始谈恋爱以来，他一点也没用了，都是二人世界的了。
那个学校的课程我觉得不太好。

成语
不省人事 unconscious, in a coma, dead to the world
人浮于事 overstaffed, too many cooks spoil the broth
人人有责 it's everyone's duty
( ”pinyin” )

词汇
干吗, why/what gives (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
才喝了一杯酒你就不省人事了, you passed out after drinking just one glass of liquor
消极怠工，人浮于事, this is passive sabotage, there are too many people working here
保卫龙城人人有责, it's everyone's duty to protect Dragon City
干吗带人家沈教授来这儿吃这些脏兮兮的东西, what are you doing dragging Professor Shen here to eat this junk

Me:
他累的时候会一躺着就不省人事。
你敢吗问我这样问题？

（评论回复以后，不好意思啊）
成语
独树一帜 to do your own thing, adopt your own style (lit. to put up a banner on a tree alone)
巾帼英雄 a heroine, an Amazon (lit. a hero in woman’s headdress)
人畜无害 completely harmless, unthreatening (lit. harmless to man and beast)
( ”pinyin” )

词汇
爱心, love; 热爱, ardent love ( “pinyin” )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
独树一帜，虽然可以出挑一时但总有一天, you can do your own thing but for all you may try it it won’t last
却从他的手里逃脱，张小姐可真是巾帼英雄啊, Miss Zhang is quite a heroine to have escaped from him
我看他倒是挺人畜无害的, he seems pretty harmless to me
我们亚兽是热爱和平的种族, we Yashou are a peace-loving race

Me:
故事里她真是一个巾帼英雄。
他真的热爱自己的工作。

第一百天又到了，时间过得太快了吧...

语法
人家 vs 别人 (actually lots of 人家 with a dash of 别人）
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Comparing_%22renjia%22_and_%22bieren%22

词汇
狗, dog (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-2-word-list/

Guardian:
人家还是个孩子呢, he's still a kid
黑袍哥哥慢走，人家等你哟♥, Hei Pao-sweetie, come back soooon, I'm waaaaiting [I mean, come on]
我又不是狗又不是猫, I'm neither a dog nor a cat

Me:
你别这样，人家在听吧。
其实我不太喜欢狗，对我来说猫更可爱。