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- Ideas for learning animals in Chinese
Hi everyone,
Basically in my free time I'm trying to make a free app for people who are beginning to learn Simplified Mandarin. One of the features of the book is based on animals, so naturally I thought about doing a segment on the Chinese Zodiac, explaining it and then each week doing a different animal. But part of me thinks it's not that original in its content, and maybe people won't be interested because it's not a particularly new thing.So I wanted to ask the italki community if I made the part about animals what would you want to know about animals in Chinese, is there any specific requests that you as a user would want which could interest and engage you, and help you learn more about the subject.
Thanks everyone!November 9, 201600 Hey Donna,
I did a gap year partially in Australia and worked and also did voluntary work in my spare time, but maybe you would also need a job for the visa to prove that you can support yourself. It is great fun to have a gap year, I don't think many Chinese actually do it, but for British people at least it's very common. But if your looking to do voluntary work in the UK for a year I'm not sure how much success you would have with that as I think there are many UK students already doing this to improve their CV's. But maybe there is some out there I don't know.
Good luck!
0 votedOctober 28, 20140- Can anyone help me translate this Chinese story into English please
有一天，村子里来了一位青年女子，她的年纪大约二十四五岁。只见她随身携带着一只药箱，在村中卖药治病。村里的人听说后，便出来请她诊治。但这位青年女子说是自己不能开药方，要等到天黑以后向神灵请教。人们耐心地等待着夜晚的降临。到了傍晚，她把一间小房子打扫得干干净净，然后将自己关在里面。村里的人围绕在门窗外面，侧耳倾听。这时候，人们自觉地停止了喧闹，只有个别人在窃窃私语。过了一会儿，小房子里外都听不到响动声息。当夜来临的时候，人们忽然听见小房子里有掀帘子的声音。青年女子在里边问：“九姑来了吗？”只听另一个女子回答说：“来了！”又问：“腊梅跟九姑一起来的吗？”一个身份像女仆的说：“来了。”然后，这三个女人叽叽喳喳，说个没完。一会儿，外面的人又听见小房子里有帘钩子声响，青年女子说了声：“六姑来了。”她旁边的人说：“春梅也抱着小公子来了哎。”一个女子说：“犟脾气的公子哥！哄他他也不睡，非要跟着六姑来。他的身体像有千把斤重，背着他真累死人！”接着，就听到青年女子道谢声，九姑问候声，六姑的客套话，两个女仆彼此慰劳声，小孩的嬉笑声，众口纷坛，吵吵嚷嚷。那青年女子带着笑声说：“小公子也太喜欢玩了，这么远还抱着猫来。”这时，里面的声音慢慢变小了，帘子又响动起来，小房子里又是一片喧哗。有人问：“四姑怎么来得这么晚？”有一个少女细声细语地说：“有一千多里路哩，和阿姑两人走了好长时间，阿姑走得太慢。”于是，又是一番问候寒暄声，移动座位声，叫添凳椅声，各种声音交织在一起，满屋喧闹，过了好一阵子才安定下来。直到这时，小房子外面的人才听到青年女子向神仙请教治病的药方。九姑认为应该用人参，六姑认为应该用黄芪，四姑说是该用白术，她们思考了片刻。然后，听见九姑叫拿笔墨来，不一会，纸折得吱吱响，拔笔，笔头套丢到桌上叮叮作响，磨墨之声十分清晰。写好药方之后，九姑把笔扔到桌子上，抓药包装，发出苏苏声。不一会儿，青年女子掀开帘子，叫村里的病人拿药和药方，随即转身回到房里，接着，就听到三姑告别，三个女仆告别，小孩咿咿呀呀声，小猫喵喵叫喊声，一时并起。九姑的声音清脆响亮，六姑的声音缓慢苍老，四姑的声音娇柔婉转，那三个女仆的声音也各有特色，外面的人可以清楚地分辨出来。村子里的人听了这场“神仙会”，以为她们真的都是神仙，惊讶不已。患病的人拿回青年女子从“神仙”那里讨教的药方和草药，赶紧煎熬饮用，但药吃完了，病却未见好转。后来村子里的人才明白，那青年女子表演的是口技，其实并没有什么神仙。她只不过是借助口技来推销自己的草药罢了。
March 25, 2014130 - What's your favourite breakfast in your country?
I'm just busy procrastinating with a bowl of my beloved Shredded Wheat cereal. In the depths of my procrastination I am now pondering what other people's favourite breakfast is in their native countries?
Also I do realise how odd it might seem that someone cares about what cereals randomers enjoy haha
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