Chinese language - Items on Display (III)

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Free Chinese Lesson - A Princess Re-born

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A Princess Re-born

The Chinese version of Turandot features a splendid "Forbidden City".

Giacomo Puccini was suffering from throat cancer as he tried to complete his last masterpiece, Turandot, in 1924. The composition of a final duet between Calaf and Turandot remained pending when he died after surgery in Brussels. Puccini's colleague, Franco Alfano, completed the duet as well as a
finale, using Puccini's notes and sketches. This full-length version is the one that has been performed worldwide ever since the opera premiered in 1926, two years after Puccini's death.

In 2000, Italian composer Luciano Berio was commissioned by Casa Ricordi, the company owning the rights to Puccini's score, to elaborate a new composition and orchestration for Turandot's finale as an alternative to that of Alfano. Now, Chinese musician Hao Weiya will compose yet another - the
third - version of the opera's ending.

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Puccini's birth, the newly-open China's National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA, also known as National Grand Theater) and Ricordi have commissioned Hao to write the first "Chinese edition" of Turandot which will premiere at the NCPA on March 21 through
26.

"Opera is universally considered the most complete and varied form of theater as it involves music, singing, acting and often dancing set in a scenic context," says Chen Zuohuang, music director of NCPA.

"We want to produce one opera ourselves in the first season of the new theater. Puccini's Turandot tells the story of a Chinese princess and uses the tune of the Chinese folk song Jasmine. It is, naturally, a good choice for us. We would like to have a Chinese composer to create a real 'Chinese
ending'," says Chen.

"There have been hundreds of productions of Turandot since it premiered in 1926, but in most cases, Chinese history and culture have not been well represented. Our production will feature the Rome-based Chinese conductor Lu Jia, who is an expert both in Italian opera and Chinese culture. It will
also have a Chinese director and a cast of Chinese singers."

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Learn Chinese online - Terracotta Warriors Exhibited in Netherlands

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Terracotta Warriors Exhibited in Netherlands

The exhibition, engaged to run through Aug. 31, is a joint effort of the Drents Museum, and the Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Promotion Center in Xi'an, China.

The objects, all discovered near Xi'an of the Shaanxi Province, provided a glance of the magnificent Qin and Han civilization, Wu Yongqi, director of the Qin Shi Huang Terracotta Warriors Museum said, adding that the exhibition would hopefully help Dutch people to get acquainted with traditional
Chinese culture and promote mutual understanding between the two peoples.

At the exhibition, many Dutch visitors were visibly struck by the images of the clay artifacts.

The exhibition gave visitors an insight into the extraordinary lengths craftsmen went to in order to delight the emperors, in both life and death.

"I'm surprised at the immense power of the ancient Chinese emperors and the way they try to maintain their kingdom in the afterworld," said M. Bakker, who had just watched a 3-D film about the genesis of the terracotta army at the museum.

He was also fascinated by the statues. "They are so beautiful, even more beautiful than I thought," Bakker said.

"Even nowadays, artists seldom make horses as beautiful as this," he said pointing to a life-sized horse from the Qin Dynasty.

Others were also impressed. "The height and the posture of the terracotta statues are very impressive," a 60-old Dutch woman said.

"Look at their faces, the expressions are so lifelike and each one is distinct from another," said the woman, who drove two hours from the southern part of the country to see the exhibition.

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Chinese Studies - The Replica of Cultural Relics

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Learning Mandarin - Track to Ancient Oriental Civilization

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Track to Ancient Oriental Civilization

China, along with ancient Egypt, Babylon, and India, is known as one of the four great ancient civilizations of the world. The distinctive culture that arose in China was both far-reaching and highly refined.

In approximately the 21st century BC, a primitive agricultural society first appeared in the areas around China's Yellow and Yangtze rivers, and animal husbandry joined hunting and fishing as a means of human sustenance. Approximately two millennia later, the Xia Dynasty (21st-16th century BC)
emerged as China's first dynastic government, followed by the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) and the Western Zhou Dynasty (11th century-771BC), which further refined the national system. The subsequent Spring and Autumn (770-476BC) and Warring States periods (475-221BC) were a time of
constant struggle for supremacy among numerous small states.

China's Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods saw a great upsurge in science and technology, as well as in ideology and culture. Much as ancient Greece gave rise to Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, China produced a number of great scholars who possessed abundant ideas and extensive
knowledge, including Kongzi (Confucius), Laozi, Mozi, Xunzi, and Mengzi (Mencius). The atmosphere of free debate among the different schools of philosophy founded by these Chinese thinkers was characterized by the saying, "Let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend."

Like their contemporaries in ancient Greece, the Chinese philosophers established schools and took on pupils, brilliantly discoursed and debated, pondered military and governmental affairs, and served as strategists and advisors to their country's leaders. They left future generations a valuable
legacy in philosophy, politics, education, and the military, and had a profound influence on the culture of China and the entire world. One of these illustrious figures was the military strategist Sun Wu (Sunzi), whose renowned work, Sunzi's Art of War, is still used extensively in the areas of
military and economic affairs.

In 221BC, at approximately the same time that the Roman Empire was establishing hegemony in the Mediterranean, Qin Shihuang, the first Qin Emperor, conquered the warring states and founded the Qin Dynasty (221-207BC) -- the first united, centralized, multi-ethnic nation in Chinese history. The Qin
Dynasty was followed by many dynasties, which have left a legacy of fascinating stories, and have provided a wealth of inspiration for modern Chinese art, literature, film, and television.

Traditional Chinese culture -- drawing from philosophy, religion, and ethics; art and literature; science and technology; and even ecology and the environment -- embodies the development and wisdom of the Chinese people. It is not only the priceless inheritance of the people of China, but also a
great treasure belonging to all humanity.

China's many inventions (especially its Four Great Inventions of paper, printing, the compass, and gunpowder) and wide range of knowledge have had a far-reaching effect on human development.. When Christopher Columbus embarked on his great voyages to the New World, the Chinese compass provided him
with vital assistance. Floating pontoon bridges were in use in China before 1100BC, and the world's earliest astronomical treatise, Gan Shi Xing Jing (The Classic of the Stars), was written in China during the Warring States Period.

Zhang Heng invented the celestial globe, used to study star-related phenomena, and the seismograph, used to measure seismic activity, during the Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD). During the Northern and Southern Dynasties (420-589), Zu Chongzi calculated the value of pi (π) to be between 3.1415926 and
3.1415927, becoming the first person in the world to accurately determine the value of pi (π) to seven decimal places. Li Shizhen's famous Compendium of Materia Medica, written in the 16th century, lists over 1,800 different medical remedies and over 10,000 prescriptions.

Traditional Chinese culture is recorded not only in historical books and documents, but also in architectural records, such as ancient city walls, palaces, temples, pagodas, and grottos; artifacts, such as bronze objects, weapons, bronze mirrors, coins, clocks, jade and pottery objects, and
curios; and folk culture, including song and dance, embroidery, cuisine, clothing, tea ceremonies, drinking games, lanterns, riddles, martial arts, chess, and kites.

Imbued with the distinctive romance and charm of the East, Chinese art has garnered acclaim all over the world. Chinese calligraphy and painting, which appeared and evolved in tandem, are the guiding force of China's fine arts. They embody China's humanist spirit, and are unparalleled in the arts
of the world.

The number of cultures that have produced the art of calligraphy can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Of them, China has the most ancient calligraphic tradition. Calligraphy has its source in writing. The earliest known form of Chinese writing, consisting of primitive pictographs, has been
found engraved on 5000-year-old Neolithic pottery shards.

The Chinese system of writing, which employs pictographs rather than alphabets, has been in existence for several thousand years. Chinese writing is not only an expression of Chinese culture, but also one of the great achievements of early human civilization. Pictographic Chinese characters
resemble an ancient fossil record in that they vividly capture the natural, social, and spiritual face of the ancient world, and reflect the evolution of both the Chinese people and human society. Chinese language and writing are inseparable from the achievements of Chinese culture, maturing
alongside society to become steadily more expressive and refined.

China's painting tradition is extremely ancient as well. When tracing the origins of Chinese painting, what first comes to mind are the elegantly engraved prehistoric pots produced by China's "painted pottery" culture, dating from 5,000 to 6,000 years ago. By the time of the Warring States Period,
Chinese painting had developed into a distinctive and mature art form. Colored drawings on silk from this period, unearthed from the tomb of the King of Chu in Changsha (Central China's Hunan Province), are the oldest existing drawings in China and the world. Chinese painting continued to develop
during the Eastern and Western Jin Dynasties (265-420), and flourished during the Sui (581-618), Tang (618-907), Song (960-1279), Yuan (1271-1368), Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) Dynasties.

Chinese sculpture has its origins in the Xia Dynasty (21st-16th century BC). During the Qin Dynasty, lifelike terracotta burial figures of soldiers and horses were created for the tomb of Qin Shihuang, the First Qin Emperor. The discovery and excavation of thousands of these figures from the
Emperor's tomb in Xi'an shook the world, and they were hailed as the "Eighth Wonder of the World" by foreign archeologists.

China's Four Great Grottos -- the Mogao and Maijishan Grottos at Dunt1uang in Northwest China's Gansu Province, the Yungang Grottos at Datong in North China's Shanxi Province, and the Longmen Grottos at Luoyang in Central China's Henan Province -- are storehouses of ancient Chinese art, and
treasures belonging to the entire world. Of these sites, the Mogao Grottos are the most ancient and contain the most magnificent cliff paintings and sculptures.

The ancestors of the Chinese people were gifted in both song and dance. Musical instruments have existed in China since remote antiquity. Ancient historical documents generally trace the history of Chinese music back to the time of the legendary Yellow Emperor, 4,000 to 5,000 years ago.

A set of sixty-four cast bronze bells, made in the State of Chu during the Warring States Period, has been discovered in Central China's Hubei Province. Each bell produces two notes, with the set covering a range of over five octaves. A wide range of classical and modem music, including symphonic
works by Beethoven, can be performed on the set, which is tuned to a diatonic scale in the key of C major. The bells have a beautiful tone, harmonious and pleasing to the ear. The fact that such a musical instrument was created in China 2,400 years ago is truly a miracle in the history of world
music.

China has numerous exquisite traditional arts and crafts. Among the most famous are carving and metalwork, embroidery and painting, ceramics and porcelain, and cloisonné (a kind of finish) enamel inlay. Bamboo furniture, woven bamboo and grass objects, paper cuts, lanterns, kites, and toys are
popular traditional craft items, while Chinese jade and ivory ornaments, cloisonné, and embroidery are treasured by people all over the world.

Ceramics and porcelain are among the most well known inventions of ancient China. The most outstanding porcelain is made in China's porcelain capital, Jingdezhen in East China's Jiangxi Province. A famous saying describes Jingdezhen porcelain as "white as jade, bright as a mirror; thin as paper,
tone like a chime." China's ceramics capital, Yixing in Jiangsu Province (East China), is the home of purple sand pottery. Produced using the area's unique purple sand clay and special firing techniques, Yixing pottery is both beautiful and distinctive.

Embroidery is a traditional craft that has flourished over the ages. China's four main styles of embroidery developed in Suzhou (Jiangsu), Hunan Province (Central China), Sichuan Province (Southwestern China), and Guangdong Province (South China). An embroidery artist may use several dozen
different stitches to portray flowers, people, animals, scenery, or any number of meticulously designed patterns.

Traditional Chinese philosophy is both profound and simple, intimately linked to both society and the individual. It propounds the theory of "as above, so below," and replies to the vexations of the "ten thousand things" -- that is, the material world -- with the concept of Harmony ("he" in
Chinese). Harmony appears weak but is actually strong. There is nothing it cannot absorb and nothing it cannot penetrate. The Chinese character "he," or Harmony, appears in the Chinese words for peace, compromise, concord, and unison, and may be interpreted to include all of these meanings.

The philosophic concept of Harmony is expressed in both the Confucian ideal of Benevolence and the Daoist idea of Non-Action. The taijitu, or Yin-Yang symbol, offers a visual representation of this concept. It depicts two opposing forces, each of which includes elements of the other and may
transform into its opposite under certain conditions. The balanced interaction of these opposing forces creates a unified and harmonious whole. The ancient philosophy of balancing opposition to create a harmonious whole has fostered an individual and collective love of peace in the Chinese people.

Chinese civilization has its source far in the distant past. With a continuous history of 5,000 years, it has undergone frequent transformations to produce a rich and vital cultural heritage.

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Learning Mandarin - Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art

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Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art

The ability to think about cultural problems and the ability to search for personal expression are two parallels that exist between artistic expression in both the East and the West. Artists trained in China during the 20th century received very strict training in the realist styles of painting.
Though artists from the East and West have different reasons and approaches to abstract art, they share the same aesthetic logic in their decision to break away from the orthodox training to seek free expression and a thorough an understanding of one’s in innermost being.

Artists: Li Huasheng, Lin Yan, Liu Zijian, Qiu Shihua, shen Chen, Wang Chuan, Chihung Yang, Zhou Li

Curator: Huang Zhuan

Organizer: OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of the He Xiangning Art Museum

Co-Organizers: Art Now Gallery, Hanart TZ Gallery, Artist Commune, ChinaSquare

Sponsor: J&J Art Fund, USA

Dates and Venues:

June 1 to July 1,2007 OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen

August 2 to Sep. 1,2007 Art Now Gallery, Beijing

Sep. 29 to Oct. 17,2007 Artist Commune, Hong Kong

Feb.1 to March 1, 2008 China Square Gallery, New York

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Chinese Character - Chinese Culture Center

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Chinese Culture Center






Cairo







Comprehensive Activities:

The 5th Chinese song competition

Culture Center, April 15


Chinese Cultural Week (co-organize with cultural department of Hebei)


Cairo Opera House, May

Exhibitions
Exhibition commemorating the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's return Central Exhibition Hall

Movies and TV: Central Multinational Hall 7:30pm


2 become 1


April 2

Heroic Duo April 30
Beautiful homestead May 7
Riding Aolne for Thousands of Miles May 28
Gimme Kudos June 3
Together June 24

Teaching:

Advanced oral classes (Elementary classes, Secondary classes, Junior classes, Senior classes)

April 27, 2008 to June 25,2008 Sunday, Tuesday or Monday, Wednesday 17：30--20：30 Venue: Venue: Central Classroom


Martial Art Class Third Phase: Southern Fist and Southern Broadsword; 24 Forms Simplified Tai Chi; 42 Forms Tai-Chi Boxing, Sword and Pushing Hands (Shui Shou)


February.24 to May.21 Sunday, Tuesday, or Monday, Wednesday 18：00--19：30 Venue: Central Multinational Hall


Library:


22000 books in collection, more than 20 kinds of periodicals in Chinese and other languages


16：00--19：30 Sunday to Thursday








Paris,  Cairo,Benin, Malta,Mauritius,S.Korea





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Forum: Speaking and Listening 21st July 2005, 09:01 AM

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Pinyin used in Taiwan?

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Thank you.

Thank you.



Forum: Speaking and Listening 21st July 2005, 08:28 AM

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Pinyin used in Taiwan?

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Thanks for answering. This calls for a new...

Thanks for answering.



This calls for a new topic, doesn't it? I want to check with my mainland China penpals, what they
think about it. They think they have freedom of expression. For example, we...



Forum: Speaking and Listening 21st July 2005, 07:12 AM

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Pinyin used in Taiwan?

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>>Could anyone teach me how to do that, or...

>>Could anyone teach me how to do that, or we let roddy to do it?
Yes, that's what I meant. Can we let moderators rename it? Anyone can make a typo but because it's
an interesting topic and anyone...



Forum: Speaking and Listening 21st July 2005, 06:57 AM

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Pinyin used in Taiwan?

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Thanks, Pangu. I know the attitudes towards the...

Thanks, Pangu. I know the attitudes towards the simplified characters in Taiwan, Hong Kong and
Macau - of course, you can live normal lives just knowing your own language and script. In
S.A.R.'s...



Forum: Speaking and Listening 21st July 2005, 04:09 AM

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Pinyin used in Taiwan?

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No, it's not. Not sure, what you mean. If you...

No, it's not. Not sure, what you mean. If you mean the keyboard layout - then Q matches with
Russian Я ("Ya"). There is no letter Q in Russian or similar, nor it matches the transliteraton
of Chinese...



Forum: Speaking and Listening 20th July 2005, 03:09 AM

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I agree that Q was a good choice because you...

I agree that Q was a good choice because you really have to differentiate between Q and CH (what
they currently signify) the sounds are very different but there are not enough letters.



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most embarrassing moment while learning Chinese

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praising the High Tide

I was on a short trip with a delegation of Chinese and foreigners, and they had taken us to see
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Forum: Speaking and Listening 3rd April 2006, 08:45 AM

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Thank you, HK. Now I learn a new simplified word...

Thank you, HK. Now I learn a new simplified word 只 for 隻. Also, my apologies for my hasty
mistake. Thanks for the correction.:)



Forum: Speaking and Listening 2nd April 2006, 09:41 AM

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Marvelous! HK! 8....

Marvelous! HK!



8. 画蛇添足
画蛇添足这个成语是说一个人画蛇的时候，给蛇加上了几隻脚。蛇，本来没�
��脚的，他给蛇加上了脚会有什么结果呢？
据说在战国时代，楚国有一个人请了几个人给他管理寺庙。那天天气很冷，�
��人就叫一个人拿了ㄧ壶酒给这几个人喝。可是一壶酒不够他们几个人喝的��
�他们商量了一会儿，就决定比赛画蛇。谁先画完蛇谁就喝那壶酒：...



Forum: Speaking and Listening 30th March 2006, 02:18 PM

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Listening Exercise (and 成语)

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Good job, bomaci 他养了一大群猴子....

Good job, bomaci

他养了一大群猴子. 因为他天天跟猴子接触所以他能了解猴子的性情.
现在我们就用朝三暮四形容一个常常改变注意,不可相信的人,或是欺骗人的��
�.

Hope it helps!:)



Forum: Speaking and Listening 30th March 2006, 08:50 AM

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Listening Exercise (and 成语)

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我还校稿了好几次 Hope it helps!:)

我还校稿了好几次

Hope it helps!:)



Forum: Speaking and Listening 29th March 2006, 10:38 AM

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Listening Exercise (and 成语)

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守株待兔

It seems that no one keep working on this project. I'll post another one.

守株待兔

守株是守在一棵樹的旁邊.待兔是等ㄧ個兔子來.
你看,這個農夫守在這棵大樹旁邊等著兔子來呢!
他為什麼不種田而在這兒等兔子呢? 兩千多年前的ㄧ天,
宋國的ㄧ個農夫正在田裡除草的時候,
忽然看見一隻兔子飛快地跑過來撞到一棵大樹上....



Forum: Speaking and Listening 23rd March 2006, 11:36 PM

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Listening Exercise (and 成语)

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you may check #30 on page 3 of this thread. 走馬看花...

you may check #30 on page 3 of this thread. 走馬看花 was done by HarishiKata.:)



Forum: Speaking and Listening 21st March 2006, 07:44 PM

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Listening Exercise (and 成语)

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She did pronounce zi4 for sure. yes, you can. ...

She did pronounce zi4 for sure.
yes, you can. Here in this case 什麼樣-- what kind--=什麼種(類)

Hope it helps!:)



Forum: Speaking and Listening 21st March 2006, 07:11 PM

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Listening Exercise (and 成语)

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Your ears are absolutely sound. She does...

Your ears are absolutely sound. She does pronounce feng2li4 in the first part. But you know
sometimes when we speak or read out, we'll mispronounce. Sometimes when I speak very fast, I will
say 我素...



Forum: Speaking and Listening 21st March 2006, 10:13 AM

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Listening Exercise (and 成语)

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矛跟盾都是古時候打仗用的武器。自相矛盾這個成語是怎麼來的呢﹖戰國時�
��,有一天,在一個熱鬧的市場裡一個...

矛跟盾都是古時候打仗用的武器。自相矛盾這個成語是怎麼來的呢﹖戰國時�
��,有一天,在一個熱鬧的市場裡一個人賣矛也賣盾。他自誇他的矛跟盾如何如
何好﹐他先拿起他的盾說﹕我做的這個盾是世界上最結實的盾。任何尖銳的�
��西都刺不穿它。他等了半天,看沒有人要買他的盾,他就把盾放下﹐拿起來他
的矛說:我作的矛是世界上最鋒利的矛.不管什麼樣的盾﹐ㄧ刺就可以刺穿。��
�說完了以後﹐一個人問他:你說你的矛是世界上最鋒利的矛。可以...



Forum: Speaking and Listening 19th March 2006, 06:26 PM

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Listening Exercise (and 成语)

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不用客氣, HarishiKata. 用一枝箭同時可以射下來兩隻大鳥. Sorry, my...

不用客氣, HarishiKata.

用一枝箭同時可以射下來兩隻大鳥. Sorry, my typing mistake. :P

As for 長孫, you're right, it's a double surname, and it's pronounced as Zhang3sun1 . Also,
these two characters are a set used to...



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十四 一箭雙雕

十四 一箭雙雕

雕是一種大鳥. 這個成語的意思是說一個人很有本事,
用一隻箭同時可以射下來兩隻大鳥. 在中國南北朝的時候,
有一個人姓張*叫孫晟, 他雖然書讀得不多, 但是武藝高強, 尤其會射箭.
皇帝派他出使突厥國.突厥的國王攝圖知道長孫晟的本領很好, 非常賞識他,
常邀他ㄧ起去騎馬打獵. 有一天, 他們又率領大隊人馬去打獵.
他們到了森林以後, 沒看見有什麼野獸, 很失望. 正在這時候,...



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Well done!!! only very very minute mistakes. 9....

Well done!!! only very very minute mistakes.

9. 东施效颦

What I heard is 模範 from the narrator. However, I think she tried to say 模仿 instead of
模範, though her pronunciation is 模範. 模範 can only be used as...



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两千多年前，杞国有一个人，膽子很小，什么都怕。
如果天掉下来了，我们躲到哪去呀？我们一定死定了。...

两千多年前，杞国有一个人，膽子很小，什么都怕。


如果天掉下来了，我们躲到哪去呀？我们一定死定了。 Yes, you're correct.

This 杞人憂天 reminds me of another similar chenyu--吳牛喘月, which means to be frightened
or fear something too much.

Hope it...



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I was thinking if I deprived the chance of others...

I was thinking if I deprived the chance of others to practice their listening comprehension by
transcribing those chenyus. No problem. I'd be glad to help correct some words if I can.
HarishiKata, I...



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the phonetic 'ㄋ' is pronouced 'n' as in 'n-an...

the phonetic 'ㄋ' is pronouced 'n' as in 'n-an (nan2 難 difficult)', and 'ㄟ' ,'ei' as in 'hei
(黑 black). so, combined together, ㄋㄟ is prounced 'nei'(sometimes the first tone, sometimes
the fifth). You...



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Hehe! It beats me. I think the function of ㄋㄟ is...

Hehe! It beats me. I think the function of ㄋㄟ is like that of 喔, 啊, 咦, etc. It's the
sound when we say it cute. My guess is that it is a variation of 不好意思呢! But I'm not
sure. We just say it that way....



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nipponman, 真不好意思ㄋㄟ. 我下次改進改進!:mrgreen:...

nipponman,

真不好意思ㄋㄟ. 我下次改進改進!:mrgreen: 我會把其他的都留給別人去聽寫.
不是故意的!:mrgreen:

SN



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三. 亡羊補牢

Hi,

I'll contribute another one--三. 亡羊補牢


三. 亡羊補牢

亡羊是羊丟了.補牢是修理羊圈.這個人的羊丟了以後,是不是應該去修理羊圈�
��?很久很久以前,在一個鄉村裡,住著一個牧羊人,
他的名字叫張三.張三家裡養了十幾隻羊,每天早上他都去牧羊.ㄧ天早上,他去
牧羊的時候,發現羊少了一隻. 羊怎麼會丟了一隻呢?...



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这个人到一个姓范的家里去偷东西，范家已经搬家了，东西都搬走了，没有�
��么东西可以偷了，只有一个大钟还留...

这个人到一个姓范的家里去偷东西，范家已经搬家了，东西都搬走了，没有�
��么东西可以偷了，只有一个大钟还留在院子里。

六. 對牛彈琴


那条牛一听见这手像牛蝇飞来飞去的曲子就立刻停止吃草.摇着尾巴,
好像在要赶走牛蝇一样.

Hope it helps!:)



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Oops! I didn't know you didn't want it to be done...

Oops! I didn't know you didn't want it to be done so soon. My apologies! Hope I was not in the way
of some project.:)



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Hi, Ok. Let me be the first to try 揠苗助長...

Hi,

Ok. Let me be the first to try 揠苗助長
(http://www.wellesley.edu/Chinese/Chinese_Fables/spoil/spoil_fable.html). Here's the transcription:

揠苗助長

揠苗是把秧苗拔起來的意思.助長是幫助秧苗長大的意思. 你看,
這張畫上的農夫在拔他田裡的秧苗呢!...



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I recently saw these characters in a calligraphy wondering what they might mean.



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It is very unclear what some of it is but here is what I am able to surmise:

但有学, 向___能
未有__, (combination of 文 and 子) 而能

But those who have studied are able to face/towards (something)
Their future has (something), and (something) has the ability

Sorry that can't get any more specific but those 2 characters make no sense and have no clue what
they are. The 文 and 子 combo is not a character but in my mind may be an attempt to say 文字
so maybe saying an education gives ability....










Li Yuzuo -

但有学而不能，未有不学而能

there is only someone who has learned but he can not do all things,
never will be someone who has not learned but he can do all things.










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in fact there are several characters that I can't figure out.....












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Quote:

I bought a large variety of cheese and brought them in so now the students have a vocabulary that
includes brie, camembert, Edam, cheddar and philadelphia. There is no way they would have learned
any word beyond 'cheese' without personal experience.

In case anyone is interested, they liked Edam and brie. They didn't like cheddar. Favorite was
German smoked cheese and philadelphia cream cheese which I now sell to the students and my
colleagues.

Can I please please come to your class?!!! Not much of all this heavenly food to find in Shantou
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Read this line:

古代人40多岁已是人生尾巴阶段，但现代人40多岁却正处日正当中。

In the last part of the sentence '但现代人40多岁却正处日正当中' --- 但 is followed
by 却. Both of these words mean 'But' or does 却 has a different meaning, or is it some sort of
a pattern of 但...却. I also see the same pattern in other sentences. I just don't understand
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JasonTsia -

Here, "却" means "..., on the contrary, ...".










Etwood -

Yes, 却 means something like 'contrary to logical belief', so with 但, it sort of has the
meaning of 'but contrary to popular belief'. Hope that helps!










magudo -

usually i will say
"古代人40多岁已是人生尾巴阶段，现代人40多岁却正处日正当中"
or "古代人40多岁已是人生尾巴阶段，但现代人40多岁正处日正当中"

I think use "但" and "却" in a same sentence is kind of wrong










JasonTsia -

I can't see any wrong in sentence like "但现代人40多岁却正处日正当中". Of cause , you
can say "现代人40多岁却正处日正当中" and "但现代人40多岁正处日正当中". But
by adding "却" after "但"， you emphasize the contrast between the two parts. Similarly, you
can say “然而...却..." , “而...却...".












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Sometimes I see 这 written with 2 dots over the radical and sometimes it is only one. In Pleco it
has 2 dots (but not in the magnified frame) and in other places it has only one. Pleco isn't the
only place I've seen this (HanziHelper has it too, but only when you print out character practice
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muyongshi -

Which radical? I just checked my pleco and there isn't two dots (at all). Not sure what it is that
you are seeing...










skylee -

The difference may be due to different print fonts.

As far as I know, this is how the character should be written ->
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OneEye -

Skylee, I think that's what it is. Some of the characters look like different characters in Pleco
than in other fonts. 还 is another, and 着. I think some of them have to do with the size of the
fonts, so certain strokes don't show up or they get distorted. I'll have to tinker with it (just
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Luoman -

I`ve noticed that the pronunciation of some characters in dictionaries and in reality differs a
lot.
For example:

熟 in 成熟. Dictionaries say shu2. But everyone seems to say shou2.
血 is xue4 in dictionaries and xue3 in reality.
处 in 处女. It is chu3 in dictionaries and chu4 in reality.
灸 in 针灸. Dictionaries say jiu3, but everyone including Chinese doctors pronounce it as jiu1.

So I want to ask: is it that the dictionaries do not keep up-to-date or everyone`s prononciation
is not right?

Any more examples of this phenomena?



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塑料 - suoliao.










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So I want to ask: is it that the dictionaries do not keep up-to-date or everyone`s prononciation
is not right?

It's both in a way but think about how much work it takes to update a dictionary. It doesn't
happen every year. According to the standard everyone's pronunciation then is wrong. But they do
realize that language morphs and so there is always discussions going on of what changes to make.
But those thing take time. Until they can come to conclusions to change the things everyone's
pronunciation is wrong. But since it takes time all the dictionaries aren't keeping up to date.
Make sense?

Here's another one 一模一样 and even my input has the wrong pronunciation. It should be yi mu
yi yang (don't believe me 查一下) but I think a majority of people say yi mou yi yang.



Quote:

风/ 風 should be fēng in 普通话 but almost everybody pronounce it 'fong'.

Never heard this (regional difference?) so I don't think everyone says it.










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Quote:

but think about how much work it takes to update a dictionary. It doesn't happen every year.

But isn`t there a new edition of 新华字典 nearly every year? So I guess this dictionary is
just being reprinted, not changed, right?










gougou -



Quote:

So I guess this dictionary is just being reprinted, not changed, right?

It is being changed, sometimes to public outcry...










muyongshi -

But pronunciations don't change...

And I just talked to some of the profs at my uni (that sounds funny) and they said the majority of
language experts don't believe that they will ever change the official pronunciation system. The
bigger problem in their mind is to get people to say it right. But they also made a odd
distinction between pronunciation 成熟 shou or shu and tone 针灸. How did they make this
distinction you ask? By saying 那是声调的问题。。。










Luoman -

便秘. Everyone says bianmi. Dictionaries say bianbi.










trufflepig -

Mold 模具
dictionary has mu2ju4

everyone else says mou2ju4


yes - someone PL-ease explain 血 - xie3 xue4 ....xue3 to me.... this has been bugging me for years










muyongshi -

Do a search please...this has been discussed so many times it hurts my head!

But because I'm so bloody nice...

http://www. /showthread.php?t=4593

http://www. /showthread.php?t=9706

模 character is very interesting it is pronounced wrong now in two situations... hmm
要研究一下










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And don't you mean they say it mó not móu?












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Lu -

I would translate 无毒不丈夫 as 'if you are not evil/bad (lit. poisonous) you are not a man'.
Not sure if that is what you mean, what I get from your explanation is more that the world
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hmm... is it not possible for chinese sayings to have more than one meaning?

does anyone know who the author actually is? was he/she a horrible person?

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Elina,

Sorry I wasn’t being clear. I should have said, “tabbed browsing” rather than just tabs.
Here are the Chinese characters that I found to say this: 选项卡浏览. I’m not sure if this
is the generally used translation of “tabbed browsing” or just Microsoft’s translation for
PRC simplified characters. For Taiwan, Microsoft uses: 索引標籤式瀏覽. Perhaps someone else
knows if this is the current, commonly used, popular term. It seems like too much of a mouthful to
me.

Fortunately, Gato provided an excellent explanation of what I was referring to. Just to be
perfectly clear, if you look the graphic in Gato’s post, you can see 3 tabs open in the browser
window.
From left to right, they are:
Cnn.com – Breaking news, U.S., World …
The New York Times – Breaking news, World …
WSJ.com – U.S. Home

When the [X] in the upper right hand corner of the window is clicked, then the entire browser
window, including all 3 or 300 tabs, will close. This is a function of the browser rather than how
your site is coded. Both Firefox and IE7 has this functionality. Since this is a feature of the
browser, it’s not necessary to code your site any particular way. Whichever way you code it, the
user can open links in a new “tab” of the same window rather than as an entirely new window.
Then the user can easily move from one tabbed screen to the next and back without opening,
closing, or reloading pages again and again. It’s a more efficient way of working, I think, and
it’s probably why tabbed browsing is so popular that Microsoft felt compelled to copy it from
Firefox.

However you decide to code your site, some will be unhappy with links that open in the same
window, and some will be unhappy with links that open in a separate window, but you can tell users
about tabbed browsing and that it will solve their problem either way. For anyone not familiar
with tabbed browsing, I suggest just trying it out, and it will become quickly clear. For a free
download of Firefox, see here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

(Full disclosure: I use Firefox and I recommend it over IE. )



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elina -

We use IE6.0 and have never used Firefox before. Yesterday afternoon we downloaded it from the
link given by Gato. Today we had more time and began to learn it, many thanks to the patient and
excellent teachers of Gato and Luobot, we understand it very fast.

At present we think our site is convenient for the following 3 kinds of people to surf:
1. visitors using IE6.0, if they want to open a link in the same window, other than in a new
window, now it’s the situation on our site, but before our site opened a link automatically in a
different new window.
2. visitors using IE6.0, if they want to open a link in a new window, SHIFT+click can do.
3. visitors using Firefox (or maybe IE7.0 judging from the above 2 posts, we have not learnt it
yet), CTRL+click can let people open a link in a new tabbed browsing in the same window.



Quote:

(Full disclosure: I use Firefox and I recommend it over IE. )

Going to love Firefox than IE for this “tabbed” characteristic, and maybe other advantages we
still have not found.










gato -



Quote:

Going to love Firefox than IE for this “tabbed” characteristic, and maybe other advantages we
still have not found.

Firefox doesn't give websites as much control over your computer as IE. Therefore, there's less of
chance that bad programs (e.g. spyware) will infect your computer. However, many mainland websites
are designed for IE 6.0 and may not work perfectly with Firefox or even IE 7.0. I use Firefox as
my primary browser and keep IE around as a backup.

A great thing about Firefox is the ability to add features with "add-ons." One of the best add-ons
for Firefox is "Scrapbook," which allows you to save web pages into organized folders (like you do
with bookmarks), with an ability to search the saved pages easily.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427
ScrapBook

There are also many add-ons helpful to those learning languages such as these below for Chinese:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...inese&status=4












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xuechengfeng -

I'm not sure if this has been done, or if this is the right area to even post this, but I think we
should collectively supply links to good Chinese-English English-Chinese online dictionaries. It
seems like every time someone helps me with a translation, they have a good dictionary I never
knew existed.



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skylee -

Even if we list them here soon they would be forgotten and then people would still keep asking
what this and that means. And the problem of typos in the original material won't be solved.

Anyways, these are in my favourite (some of them accept traditional only; some of them simplified
only) ->

英漢字典 - English-Chinese Translation Dictionary

Dict.CN 在線詞典

愛詞霸-在線詞典

百度词典搜索

林語堂《當代漢英詞典》電子版

國語辭典

新华字典

MDBG free online chinese english dictionary

教育部成語典

異體字字典

榮陽數位化醫學字典

Chengyu Dictionary - An english dictionary of chinese idioms (I've bookmarked this site but have
not really used it)

Chinese Computer Terminology System










wai ming -

I think it would be good if we could make this list a sticky










gato -



Quote:

I think it would be good if we could make this list a sticky

Or maybe just adding the best of them to this thread:
http://www. /showthread.php?t=9739










Luobot -



Quote:

Or maybe just adding the best of them to this thread:
http://www. /showthread.php?t=9739

That thread is so long, it needs its own "Best of the Best" index.










gato -



Quote:

http://www. /showthread.php?t=9739
That thread is so long, it needs its own "Best of the Best" index.

The idea was that the best would be listed in the first two posts.










Luobot -



Quote:

The idea was that the best would be listed in the first two posts.

Oh, now I see. Thanks for pointing that out to me. And then I was going to suggest that it should
be a "Link to Love" only to realize that the link to that thread is a sticky under "Resources and
General Study Issues" -- so there is a method to the madness here!












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bogleg -

Tiantian -

Yeah, I realize the Handedict (and Adso) dictionaries are quite a bit slower then cedict. The
handedict dictionary is actually almost 3 times larger then cedict. I've been playing around with
things like database indexes and such, and while I've been able to speed up 'exact match' queries
for character and pinyin, it doesn't help much with 'contains' or definition queries. Anyway, what
I'm really saying is I need someone with more database experience than I have to help me out.

I like your font idea. Let me see if I can get it in to the next release. I've also thought about
integrating Hanzilookup before, but it's licensed under the GPL which doesn't seem compatible with
the ZDT's EPL license. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse...#Compatibility

Chris



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Luobot -

1 & 2) Let me see what I can do for this next release.

3) Not going to get into 0.7.0 final, but I definitely would like to make it one of the major
highlights of the next, next release.

Chris










PJPoon -

Could you create a feature and provide an update site so that I can install ZDT in Eclipse instead
of running it as a stand alone RCP application?
Other than that ZDT is an amazing program.










peterjez -

I want to echo what most people have said. ZDT is not annoying. It's a great program.

Here are some ideas I have:
1. Have some information about categories next to the category name: (number of words, maybe like
an average score to tell you which category you should study).
2. Use flash cards from multiple categories. What if I wanted to just do this overall test that
tested from all my categories at once, or maybe a specific category?
3. Make categories more like folders. I've been reading Dragonball Z in Chinese and I have a
category for each book that I read. Now I have read 20 different books, and have 20 different
categories and it's hard to navigate through. I wish I could just group them all into one
Dragonball category. This could help with my idea #2. Previously I was just creating another
category called AllDB and putting words in there from all the DB categories.
4. I want to be able to search a category for a word. Sometimes I find a mistake in one of the
flashcards (like maybe the pinyin is wrong), but then the list is 300 words long. Finding that
word is kind of annoying.
5. Are there really other plugins for ZDT? Because I haven't found any.
6. We need an online place to share categories. I've spent many hours just creating my dragonball
categories for example. If only I could share them.
7. Here's a far out idea: what if I could enter in some text and then ZDT automatically extract
flash cards for me. For example, maybe I read an online article that I want to study. Then I input
all the article's text and then ZDT could extract all the relevant words (maybe based on your own
scores of words, or frequency that the word appears in the language).
8. Why are scores stored in the word in the category and not universally? For example, I can have
one word that I have in two different categories, but my score for that same word could be
different. Scores should be stored in the dictionary itself or something, that way each time you
access that word, you can update your score for that word.
9. Like Idea #1, why not put your scores next to the words in the category list?
10. My final idea which I brought to you in another post: make this tool usable for Chinese
learning English.

Hahah sorry to overload you and thanks for hearing me out










rabbit -

Dear Chris,

ZDT is really excellent!

There's just one small thing which I'm actually missing a lot: I'd like to have the option to see
the definition instead of the character in the pinyin recall test mode.

If that functionality would be included, ZDT would be perfect for me!

Thank you so much!
Uwe










bogleg -

@PJPoon - Can you explain why you'd like to do this?

@peterjez - I like a lot of your comments. I'm adding a link to your post to my todo list. Let me
comment on a few of them though.

2) You can already use flashcards from multiple categories. In the flashcard dialog where you pick
your category to test, use ctrl-click (Windows) to select more than one category.

5) Right now, the plugins not included with the main program install are the dictionary ones
(adso, and handedict) and the sound plugins. I've written a simple chinesepod one for demo
purposes, but I haven't published it.

6) Email me (fongcn at gmail dot com) any word lists you've created. I have a bunch of user
submitted lists posted here: http://zdt.sourceforge.net/main/wordlist_index/

Chris










PJPoon -

Well, I always have Eclipse open and I pretty much do everything with Eclipse, so wouldn't it be
great if ZDT could also be used in Eclipse without having to run ZDT by itself? Since it's an RCP
application, it shouldn't be too difficult to do this right?










cming -

1. From a beginner's perspective the default font size is too small, just make it a few points
bigger. (I know this is easy to do once installed, but better if you could somehow make it larger
by default). I also agree with other comments here about having a different font for pinyin and
hanzi, that would be a lot easier on my eyes.

2. Being able to jump straight to the stroke order when you are in the flashcards, without having
to reset or end your session would be great.










bogleg -

@PJPoon - Well, I'm not sure. I don't think you could just drop in the plugins into your Eclipse
folder and have it just "work". Would you have a ZDT perspective? I myself have Eclipse open all
day for work, and I've never had the urge to have ZDT embedded in it. Still, if you're an Eclipse
guy, maybe you could do the proper modifications and show me the light.

@cming - The program just uses your system's default font and size. I don't really want to mess
with the defaults since it's different on the every platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) and everyone
has their own preferences for what they like. For example on my Mac, the text is very tiny by
default, but I just hit Ctrl + a couple of times and I'm good to go. I will try and incorporate
your stroke animation idea though.

Chris










toads -

Three small requests:
* The ability to batch import files into their own category. As it stands, if I want to import
say all 11 wordlists for colloquial chinese into zdt it takes a *lot* of mouse clicks.
* The ability to see the stroke order of the characters on the current flashcard (maybe a
keyboard shortcut?), as was mentioned before.
* The ability to give an "importance score" to a vocabulary item in flash card mode, i.e. a
number from say 1 to 5 representing how important something is; a higher score could give the
card a bigger weight in the interval filter or something.













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