Top new questions this week:
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Leetspeak is the idea of replacing letters with characters that resemble them. For instance replacing “o”s with “0”s: n00b. This sort of text can also seem like computerized speech,…
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I want to say “workout routine” , “weightlifting routine” , “daily routine” , “study routine”. My dictionary provides a few translations for “routine”….
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他会说一口标准的英语 He can speak standard English. So I think that 一口 can be omitted and still the sentence can make sense. How actually 一口 work in this sentence?
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(this is all about my ideal bedroom and what I would like in it) 你好!我喜欢城市和雨天所以我想住在下雨的城市。我理想的卧室会很高也大。我的卧室有里很多窗。我想两张桌子在卧室里,也两张很小黄色的灯在桌子上。我的床是橙色的和很大。卧室里有很大电视 和电脑在桌子上。卧室不有椅子。然而,我喜欢我的卧室。 What I’m trying to …
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It’s hard to remember where 有,在 and prepositions go. I’m also not sure how I would add adjectives to do with colour/size/numbers would go in the sentence.
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I’m writing a novel and I have a character that is of Chinese descent. The story takes place centuries into the future on another planet with only a handful (few several thousand) humans left. Of …
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So I am going to Taiwan to study Chinese and the program told me that if I do not pick myself a Chinese name, the teacher will pick (an apparently random) one. And so from what I see the general rule …
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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Many dictionaries translate it to “ambiguity”,but it looks so indefinitely. I’m looking for more expressive answer.
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For example, let’s examine the character 天 (heaven). It has a 人 radical (men). And then we add a strip to become 大 (big). And then we add another strip to get 天 (heaven). Now, is there a site to do …
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How offensive is the expression 他妈的? What is an English expression with a similar degree of offensiveness? In what situations is this expression appropriate / not appropriate?
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As Mr. Confucius said, 食色性也, food and sex play important roles in one’s life, when you wants to eat, there is a word in Chinese 饿 to illustrate this state, but there seems no such a word in Chinese to …
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What are the most frequent words I’m likely to encounter when using a computer in Chinese. Stuff like file menu, cut, copy, paste, edit, properties, ok, cancel, back, refresh, save, print etc… …
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中学 seems to be both terms for middle school (junior high school) and high school (senior high school). how does 高中 and 初中 relate to these words also? www.linedict.com/dict.html#/cnen/entry/…
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So the age old question of 的, 地, 得, when do you use which? When spoken, it all sounds the same, but on paper it depends on if it’s a verb, noun, adjective. But I don’t quite remember if that is all …
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