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| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5774 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 1 of 5 30 March 2009 at 11:08pm | IP Logged |
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I would really appreciate it if someone could check the translation below and help me with a couple of sentences I simply don't understand. The passage is taken from the textbook I am using: 'A Key to Chinese Speech and Writing' Many thanks.
我的老师是中国的名人. My teacher is a famous person in China. 他的书法很好,是文字学大师. His calligraphy is very good, it is the writing study great master. (?) 他的老大是大学生,学文学,书法也很好. His elder son is a university student. He studies literature. His calligraphy is also very good. 他的老二是中学生,书法不怎么样. His second child is a middle(high?) school student, his calligraphy is not very good. 没人说他汉字写得好看. There is nobody who says that he writes hanzi beautifully. 不过,他的语文很好. But his written language is very good. 他好看小人书,小说,汉语也说得好. ???, novel, he speaks Chinese well. 在中国,小学生人人都学书法. In China all primary school students learn calligraphy. 我的看法,中国书法好看,不好学. In my opinion Chinese calligraphy is nice to look at but not easy to learn. Edited by stelingo on 30 March 2009 at 11:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| cheng Diglot Newbie Singapore Joined 5766 days ago 23 posts - 23 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: Spanish, Swedish, Japanese | Message 2 of 5 31 March 2009 at 8:10pm | IP Logged |
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I don't understand "他好看小人书" either,
Are there typo errors for this?? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| cheng Diglot Newbie Singapore Joined 5766 days ago 23 posts - 23 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: Spanish, Swedish, Japanese | Message 3 of 5 31 March 2009 at 8:15pm | IP Logged |
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By the way, 小人 means something like a despicable person or something, but seems not to make any sense here, at least to me.
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| null Groupie China Joined 6067 days ago 76 posts - 82 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 4 of 5 01 April 2009 at 9:12am | IP Logged |
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是文字学大师: (He) is a master of philology.
中学生: middle school student (including 初中生:junior middle school students; 高中生: senior high school students) 他好看小人书: He likes reading comic strips. 小人书 (or 连环画):comic strip These are called 小人书 in Chinese: 
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| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5774 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 5 of 5 01 April 2009 at 8:45pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for your help null. So the rest of my translation is correct?
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