Archive for March, 2007
In this tutorial, I would like to talk the transportation or the related like the road, station. This topic consist of two parts. Ok, let’s start to learn about the transportation in chinese.
飞机 ‘fei(1) ji(1)’ this is ‘airplane’
飞机场 ‘fei(1) ji(1) chang(3)’ this is ‘airport’
救护车 ‘jiu(4) hu(4) che(1)’ this is ‘ambulance’
脚踏车 ‘jiao(3) ta(4) che(1)’ this is […]
After learn about Sign and Directions at the last post. Now, I am still posting more about it. Here are more the sigh and directions been used:
单程路 ‘dan(1) cheng(2) lu(4)’ in English ‘one way’
营业中 ‘ying(2) ye(4) zhong(1)’ in English ‘open’
出 ‘chu(1)’ in English ‘out’
护照检查 ‘hu(4) zhao(4) jian(3) cha(2)’ in English ‘passport control’
行人 ‘xing(2) ren(2)’ means […]
If we go to china or the country that use the chinese/mandarin as a main language. Maybe the sign and directions on the road not available in English. So we need to know the meaning of it. Ok, I will tell some of it:
到达 ‘dao(4) da(2)’ means ‘arrival’
休业 ‘xiu(1) ye(4)’ means ‘closed’
公共气车站 ‘gong(1) gong(4) qi(4) […]
Last post, we talk about the some colors in mandarin, now I will talk about the time using in mandarin, for example: morning, afternoon, today, for the future like tomorrow, next week, next year, etc, for the past like yesterday, last month, etc. Ok, let’s start again:
早上 ‘zao(3) shang(4)’ meaning ‘morning’
上午 ‘shang(4) wu(3)’ meaning ‘noon […]
After told some festival in China, we continue our tutorial for our mandarin. Now I will tell about the colors. See the sample below (the chinese character, the pronounce, and the meaning):
深蓝色 ‘shen(1) lan(2) se(4)’ means ‘navy blue’
橙色 ‘cheng(2) se(4)’ means ‘orange’
粉红色 ‘fen(3) hong(2) se(4)’ means ‘pink’
紫色 ‘zi(3) se(4)’ means ‘purple’
红色 ‘hong(2) se(4)’ means ‘red’
银色 […]
Zhong Qiu (The Mid-Autumn)
Zhong Qiu means the mid-autumn, also called Moon Festival. The moon festival is the second most important festival in the traditional Chinese calendar and occurs on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. The autumn season in the Chinese calendar is the seventh, eighth and ninth months, with the fifteenth day being […]
