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| Toffeeliz Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5684 days ago 116 posts - 130 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Russian | Message 9 of 14 14 January 2010 at 1:05pm | IP Logged |
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Tight is used to describe someone who doesn't like to spend a lot of money, or give much to people. It's used in a broader meaning colloquially here, say if you have a boss that wont give you any hours off or if your car is broken into and insurance wont cover it. See?
I can see how it can be used positively though :D Grammer is tough in a lt of languages and even though Mandarin is quite simple I think, I cringe whenever I see my first writings in Chinese. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| annette Senior Member United States Joined 5510 days ago 164 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English* | Message 10 of 14 15 January 2010 at 10:40pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the explanation. I just had never heard anyone use the word in that sense
before, probably because I'm not from the UK. So, very cool. In general I find Chinese grammar quite simple as well. For beginners, things like 了 and 的／得／地 can be hard, though. To be honest, I occasionally mix up the latter three myself. I can come up the rules with a little thought, but it can sometimes be hard to choose the right one in the heat of the moment, like when your essay is due in an hour and you haven't started yet and have no time to proofread... a situation that has happened to me all too often, sadly. I think my real goal for TAC 2010 is not to reach fluency, although that would be great; I'd just like to implement better discipline!! And although Chinese grammar is pretty easy, I have to say that so far my experience with Classical Chinese is that THAT grammar is a little harder. Still not as tiring as conjugations and declensions and cases, but definitely not as intuitive as Mandarin. Of course I have only been working on Guwen for one class and some homework hours, so who knows - maybe when I get a little bit better at it, it'll seem as simple as modern Chinese after all! Edited by annette on 15 January 2010 at 10:41pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6474 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 11 of 14 17 February 2010 at 9:18pm | IP Logged |
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Toffeeliz, where will you be logging your efforts and your progress?
加油 everybody! Edited by Sprachprofi on 17 February 2010 at 9:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| annette Senior Member United States Joined 5510 days ago 164 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English* | Message 12 of 14 18 February 2010 at 4:17am | IP Logged |
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I had completely forgotten about our group thread! It's funny to look back at my post
where I comment that Chinese grammar seems easy, because although I stand by that statement (come on... no cases, declensions, plurals, tense other than particles?), in recent weeks my grammar has been steadily deteriorating. My guess is that this is because I've been focusing so heavily on conversation, where nobody speaks with perfect grammar all of the time. But when I have to write things down, as I did yesterday, it becomes incredibly obvious that I need to do some review. So, that's what I'll be working on this month... as soon as I have some time, anyway. I hope everyone else is more on top of things than I am! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6474 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 13 of 14 18 February 2010 at 7:17pm | IP Logged |
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I still have immense motivation to work on my Chinese. There were some years I didn't,
but it came back. I hope the same will happen for you. By the way, group question: does anybody know the name of a modern Chinese (Mandarin) TV sitcom / soap opera? Normally I'm not the type to watch that, but after taking in many, many hours of war-related and historical vocabulary from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, I thought my conversational Chinese might actually improve by watching something like "Friends" or the like. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| annette Senior Member United States Joined 5510 days ago 164 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English* | Message 14 of 14 19 February 2010 at 1:16am | IP Logged |
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Mysoju has a looooong list of dramas of various stripe, but here's a direct link to one
that was popular in Taiwan last year (Mandarin): http://www.mysoju.com/fated-to-love-you/ - Ming4 zhong1 zhu4 ding4 wo3 ai4 ni3 - in general this drama is rather romantic comedy-ish. It can get cheesy at times but I think the show is saved by the fact that they don't really take themselves all that seriously. All the characters are rather intentionally cartoonish, so it makes for easy viewing if you're into that sort of thing. In my experience, most widely available Taiwanese dramas set in contemporary times lean towards the romantic/cutesy, if you know what I mean. If you're looking for "serious" drama you'd probably have better luck with the ancient history stuff. I don't know anything about mainland TV though. Anyway, poke around that site, maybe you'll find something you like :). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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