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12/31/2024
新年快乐！Happy new year!
Just a quick popup for my group courses kicking off soon in the new year.
If you need more guidance and accountability on your Mandarin learning journey, and want to do it in a stress-free way, come to join me! ❤️
I wish everyone a joyful, peaceful, and fruitful year of 2025. The world does seem to get crazier, but may we all focus on the present moment and seize every moment of life.
Comment ‘Joy’ and I will directly send the course info links to you.
11/27/2022
What’s your understanding of this line?
Gu Cheng was a contemporary poet, a prominent member of the “Misty Poets”. His words can often give me great strength and courage, especially this line, often reminding me that we are beautiful spiritual creatures even when we are living our everyday busy life like tiny and helpless ants.
顾城是一位当代诗人，朦胧诗的代表人物，他的文字常常能带给我巨大的力量和勇气。即使每日如渺小无助的蝼蚁般忙碌地生活，我们仍是充满灵性的美丽生物。
How to say “nice to meet you” in Mandarin? Most text books will teach 很高兴见到你【Hěn gāoxìng jiàndao nǐ】or 很高兴认识你【Hěn gāoxìng rènshi nǐ】. However, they are both “emported language” literally translated from English. So it’s not used that often in real life.
What are the authentice ways to say “nice to meet you” in Mandarin then?
1.
Xìnghuì.
幸会
Literally “honored to meet you”. It can be used both in casual and formal settings, but it does sound very polite and sophisticated, and shows a lot of respect.
2.
Jiǔyǎng.
久仰
Literlly “admired you for a long time”. It’s basically saying “I’ve heard a lot about you.” in a very respectful way. It also came from classical Chinese. So relatively more polite and formal.
3.
Nǐhǎo.
你好
Simply, in most casual situations, we don’t really say “nice to meet you”. You can simply say hi after being introduced to new friends.
Clips of Chinese drama are from 你是我的荣耀【Nǐ shì wǒde róngyào 】You Are My Glory, which can be found on Youtube!
Learning radicals can be really helpful for learning more Chinese characters. But, after thousandsof years' evolvement, many have changed their shapes, so it can be confusing.
Like this character 肉ròu, which means meat or flesh, will change its shape when being a radical on the left side. It looks very much loke the charater 月yuè, which means the moon.
So you might be confused when seeing a character that doesn’t have anything to do with the moon, like肚dù(belly), 脸liǎn (face), 肤fū(animal skin), 腿tuǐ (leg).
That’s because most of the time, the 月 shaped radical is actually the transformed 肉, which indicates something related to flesh or body parts.
Any other radical that was confusing to you?
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