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Will my shoes die 死掉 or get wet 濕掉?
I think I mastered the art of spending a good 10min trying to understand if my Taiwanese roommate was saying shi or si
She said: 要下雨了。你應該換鞋子不然他們會濕掉。
Both seemed like plausible scenarios to me, but no matter how many times she said it I could only hear that my shoes were going to die lmao.
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Currently doing research on women’s rights in China, I didn’t realise I would be learning how to say “hostiles forces” 敌对势力 while going through the All-Women china federation website, but here we are haha
Discursively, it’s super interesting how this text opposes China’s “男女平等” and the west’s “女权主义” and going as far as to write women’s rights supremacy haha.
男女平等基本国策 (Nán-nǚ píngděng jīběn guócè) : basic national policy of gender equality
西方的”女权主义” ”女权至上” (xīfāng de nǚquán zhǔyì, nǚquán zhìshàng) : western “feminism”, “women’s rights supremacy”
I guess they’re criticising the west for how women’s rights advocacy supposedly prioritises women over men, and in contrast, this positions their policies as more balanced.
Now, here are some other words you can use in your rhetoric ✨:
西方敌对势力: western hostile forces
西化分化战略: westernisation and division strategy
抨击: to attack with words (speech or writing)
维权 (wéiquán) : to safeguard legitimate rights and interests
扶贫 (fúpín) : poverty alleviation
慈善 (císhàn) : philanthropic; charitable
旗号 (qíhào) : banner; pretext; ostensible purpose
插手 (chāshǒu) : to have a hand in; poke one's nose into
寻找和打开缺口 (xúnzhǎo hé dǎkāi quēkǒu) : to look for and open up a breach; shortfall: gap
To be honest, official releases are usually not that interesting and fun to look at but I thought this was interesting to share. Nonetheless it’s the first time I see an “official” entity clearly using “western hostiles forces”.
This is an excerpt from an article on the All-Women China foundation website from may 2017, you can find the article here.
just curious, is mandarin (cantonese?) your first language or are you learning it?
My first language is not Mandarin Chinese (nor Cantonese), which is a good thing haha, because I really suck at it.
My main focus is/was on learning Taiwanese and standard mandarin. But, im writing a thesis as one does, so rn I’m just learning the random ass things my Chinese friends talk to me about. What I often lack when speaking mandarin (hell even in English) are cultural references/slang vocab, but I’m guessing I’m not the only one, so that’s why I ended up posting on here.
Despite all of this, somehow I have a communication job on Chinese social media. Don’t know how I ended up there with my poor language skills. But hey, apparently you don’t have to be that good at Chinese to get a job!
Can someone explain to me, are alternatively link me to a grammar resource that explains the difference in usage between:
什么都不/没
什么也不/没
一点都不/没
一点也不/没
I've seen all of these pop up as various ways of expressing "not at all." I'm mostly confused about when to use 也 vs 都.
Okay, based on the responses I've received, I think there's some major confusion regarding what kind of explanation I'm asking for in this post.
I am NOT asking about the general differences between 也 vs 都.
I am also NOT asking about the general differences between 不 vs 没.
I am asking about the 4 phrases I listed. The SPECIFIC 4 phrases that I listed:
什么都不/没 i.e. 我什么都不知道 - I don't know anything at all
什么也不/没 i.e. 我什么也没干 - I didn't do anything at all
一点都不/没 i.e. 这对他一点都不好 - This is not good for him at all.
一点也不/没 i.e. 我一点也没生气 - I am not angry at all.
I am ONLY asking how to differentiate between these 4 phrases, and these 4 phrases alone. All of them seem to mean basically the same thing, so I'm asking how I pick between them when trying to express the concept of "not at all."
That's it.
OK this is actually a very good question that I had never really thought about until now! I guess I had always been going on instinct on which to use, which has served me well thus far!
So after poking around online, the various opinions given by random people (native or otherwise) left me quite uncertain for a while too! (囧)
But amidst all the confusing responses, I think this comment given by someone on zhidao.baidu, probably explained it the best:
「“也”一般针对的对象是人，而“都”针对的对象则更加广泛，可以是人，也可以是物。」
“ ‘也’ generally speaking, is used when the person is the subject, and ‘都’ is broader, can be used when either a person or an object is the subject.”
This person was answering specifically to the question/example “都/也 不知道”, but to use your examples, and from what I've concluded from this person's explanation:
「我什么都不知道」 — emphasis here is 「什么」, the object. If it's,
我什么也不知道 — 「我」, that you don't know.
「我什么也没干」 — 「我」, you didn't do anything. If it's,
我什么都没干 — again, 「什么」 is the emphasis.
「这对他一点都不好」 — 「这」, thing is not good. If it's,
这对他一点也不好 — 「他」, not good for him.
「我一点也没生气」 — you're emphasizing the 「我」, that you are not angry at all. And in this scenario, 「也」 is always used because you'll always be emphasizing the person (and their feelings). So you should not say, 「一点都没生气」 (and when I think about it, at least, I've never heard anyone saying they are/that person is 「一点都没生气」 before).
So in conclusion, emphasis on whether it's a person or an object is key, and the differences are really, really subtle and oftentimes can be used interchangeably, and native speakers may not fully understand the differences themselves either.
Hope this helped! (I think it certainly helped me some! ^_^)
This helped a lot! Thank you so much!
It's hard to find an explanation for these kind of grammar rules because like you said, they're the kind of rules most native speakers just know instinctively (like adjective order in English), and they're pretty trivial, compared to other grammar rules, so you're less likely to find the clear explanation in a book.
Try to guess what “快把我发配宁古塔” could mean.
Context: I shared a story on Weibo about how I experience -17 degree for the first time in Sweden and some people commented the following:
I wasn’t expecting these comments to say the least. To me the 🥵 was hinting as some sexual underlying meaning.
But I couldn’t be more wrong haha.
Turns out, it’s a reference to a 2011 series called 后宫甄嬛传 (hòugōng zhēn huánchuán). It is (according to my friend) the most famous Chinese series about Qing dynasty.
And in this story, if someone commits a crime or offend the emperor they could be sentenced to go to a place called 宁古塔, which is very very cold (like Sweden)
So these comments were asking to be exiled to 宁古塔 simply meaning that they would want to go to a cold place like Sweden haha.
So now you know what this reference means 嘻嘻
快kuài 把bǎ 我wǒ 发配fāpèi 宁古塔níng gǔtǎ
Here’s a 知乎 article about 宁古塔 during Qing dynasty
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世界是个草台班子
(Alternative title: how to be pessimistic in Chinese)
草台班子 (cǎotái bānzi) : a small, poorly-equipped travelling theatrical troupe giving shows in villages and small towns
From my understanding, one would mostly use this whenever things cannot be explained by rationality.
And while researching about it I found this post from 小红书, by AAA催促学习王师傅, which I think captures pretty well the mood if this expression haha.
I translated keywords for the first part, so that i can have context for understanding the end of the post.
The hashtags are the best part imo, especially the #emo 😂
擺爛 / 摆烂 (bǎilàn): to stop striving (esp. when one knows one cannot succeed); to let it all go to hell
焦慮 / 焦虑 (jiāolǜ): anxious
內卷 (nèijuǎn): to become more of a rat race
你酒国女英雄
Just sharing this except from the Taiwanese series “Wave makers” (人選之人—造浪者)
I laughed so much when I saw the translation haha, will definitely be using this in the future.
對～就是這麼隨便 / 对～就是这么随便
Right~ that’s this simple.
隨便 / 随便 : [suí biàn] - HSK4
#1 do as one wishes
#2 indicate that one doesn’t care about something
Listening to 不明白's episode on the LGBT community in China, I just thought I'd share some of the interesting vocabulary I was able to pick up :
打壓 [dâ yâ] -› to suppress
報導 [bào dâo] -> to report (in the media)
針對 (zhēn duì] -> to target, to be aimed at or against
審查 (shēn chá] -> to censor out
保守 [bâo shôu] -> conservative
右翼 [yòu yì] -> (politically) right wing
極端 [jí duān]右翼 -> extreme right wing
性少數 (xìng shâo shū] -> Igbt (sexual minorities)
跨性別 [kuà xing bié] -> transgender
One of the best things about this podcast is that they post transcripts pretty fast after each episode, which makes the content so approachable even for intermediate learners like me.
POV you look up a word in Pleco
I love how some characters just have such diverse and vague meaning.
It happened so many times already, when I’m just trying to understand a sentence and some characters are just not cooperative.
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梗王
gěngwáng | ㄍㄥˇㄨㄤˊ
A funny person.
I am very confused as for this character’s meaning origin. I would love some help here tbh.
For some context : I was buying concert tickets and managed to buy seats in the wrong area haha.
「把口語改用書面語」 的第一張便條。
就而 … 言
英語 : as far as … is concerned
口語 : 從 … 來說
… 固然 A 但 B
英語 : Admittedly A, but B
口語 : 雖然 A 可是 B
✖️ 不能放在句首
文化遺產固然值得保存，但保存很貴也沒收入。例如事說把巴黎聖母院修繕的錢拿回來讓政府提高人民基本的生活需求。
文化遺產 : cultural heritage
值得保存 : merit preservation
收入 : income
巴黎聖母院 : Notre Dame de Paris cathedral
修繕 : repair
Here are some more word comparison.
可望
(kěwàng)- 非常想要的。
希望
(xīwàng) -未來的願望，心裡想要的某種情況。
願望
(yuànwàng）-對一件事物的期待。
心願
(xīnyuàn）- 不容易實現的事。
I always wondered the difference between 缺陷 and 缺點, i thought I’d share what i found. Both mean a defect.
缺陷
(quēxiàn) - 天生的
缺點
(quēdiǎn) - 後天的
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DISCLAMER : Malgré tous les différents programmes et bourses mis en place, étudier à l’étranger est un privilège, et je suis consciente que c’est un privilège dont tout le monde ne peut pas faire l’expérience.
Cette liste est bien sûr non exhaustive. De plus, je ne serais en mesure de vous renseigner d’avantage que sur les programmes marqués d’un ☑️
Lycée à l’étranger
Rotary Youth Exchange ( 15 à 18 ans ) ☑️
Durée : échange court de 3 mois, ou échange scolaire de 10 mois.
Coût : Billet aller-retour + Assurance voyage + Frais de visa
Logement contre services
Helpx
Travailler entre 4h et 6h par jour chez des particuliers ou professionnels en échange d’un toit et du couvert.
Tous domaines d’activité
Visa (Travail ou PVT) + assurance nécessaire
Workaway
Même principe qu’HelpX, mais le travail est plus centré sur ces causes d’intérêt publique.
Visa (Travail ou PVT) + assurance nécessaire
Wwoofing
Travailler dans un ferme maraîchaire ou biologique en échange d’hébergement et du couvert chez l’habitant.
Visa et assurance peuvent être nécessaires.
Bourses
Bourse Zellidja ( 16 à 20 ans )
Voyager seul durant 1 mois minium.
Bourse jusqu’à 1100€
Bourse Région Mobilité Internationale Lycéens professionnels et apprentis
Durée 3 semaines à 8 semaines
Résidant de la région Auvergne Rhone-Alpes
Bourse Région Mobilité Internationale Etudiants et Apprentis
S’adresse aux étudiants ou apprentis d’un établissent situé en Auvergne Rhône Alpes.
Mobilité prévue dans un cursus validé par un diplôme.
Bourses d’études supérieures
Tout étudiant FR ou EU, suivant des études supérieures en Europe dans les mêmes conditions qu’en France.
Autres bourses régionales, programmes d’échanges et fondations.
Volontariat
Le volontariat est encadré contractuellement contrairement au bénévolat.
Service Civique à l’international ( 16 à 25 ans )
Durée de 6 à 12 mois
Indemnité d’environ 630€ / mois
Nationalité FR, UE, EEE ou résidant en France depuis 1 ans ou +
OFAJ - Volontariat Franco-Allemand (18 à 25 ans)
Durée de 10 à 12 mois
Indemnité d’environ 523€ / mois +
Nationalité FR, UE ou EEE
CES - Corps Européen de Solidarité ( 18 à 30 ans)
Durée de 2 semaines à 12 mois
Permet d’effectuer un volontariat, stage ou activité professionnelle en Europe.
Indemnité + frais de transports, d’hébergement et d’assurance couvert.
VSI - Volontariat de Solidarité Internationale ( 18 ans et + )
Durée de 6 mois à 2 ans
Indemnité + frais de transports, d’hébergement et d’assurance couvert.
VIE, VIA - Volontariat International en Entreprise ou Administration ( 18 à 28 ans )
Durée de 6 à 24 mois
Permet de partir pour une mission professionnelle à l’étranger. S’adresse à des jeunes qualifiés.
Nationalité FR ou EU
VIF - Volontariat International de la francophonie ( 21 à 34 ans )
Durée de 6 à 12 mois
Nationalité d’un des 57 pays membres de la francophonie.
Être titulaire d’un diplôme universitaire
Etudes supérieures en Europe (Licence ou Master en Anglais)
Aucun visas n’est nécessaire, de plus la réforme LMD et crédits ECTS mise en place en Europe permet de garantir l’équivalence des diplômes.
Plus d’informations sur le site du ministère de l’enseignement supérieur.
Étudier en Allemagne
Frais de scolarité : de 0€ à 500€ / semestre selon l’université
Conditions préalables :
- Traduction assermentée des diplômes (environ 40€ / page)
- Preuve de capacités en langue anglaise : Crédits universitaires, tests d’anglais (environ 200€) , …
Durée : Licence en 3 ans et Master en 2 ans.
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Étudier en Suède ☑️
Frais de scolarité : 0€
Conditions préalables :
- Traduction assermentée des diplômes (environ 40€ / page)
- Preuve de capacités en langue anglaise : Crédits universitaires, tests d’anglais (environ 200€), …
Durée : Licence en 3 ans et Master en 2 ans.
Plus d’informations
Étudier en Norvège ☑️
Frais de scolarité : 0€
Conditions préalables :
- Traduction assermentée des diplômes (environ 40€ / page)
- Preuve de capacités en langue anglaise : Crédits universitaires, tests d’anglais (environ 200€), …
Durée : Licence en 3 ans et Master en 2 ans.
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Why is this question so hard to answer, I must have some kind of motivation to inflict myself this insanity … right ?
