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k. aspiring trilingual. learning mandarin + cantonese! ₊˚⊹♡

[the-nihongo-adventure]

Spy x Family Vocabulary | Episode 1 👨‍👩‍👧✨

i started watching this anime day before yesterday and am so in love with it!! it totally lives up to its hype and is definitely going to be one of my favourite anime of all time😍🥰

🕵️📝sharing some words I picked up from Ep. 1:

1. 大使館　【たいしかん】　→　embassy

2. おそらく　→　perhaps, likely, probably

3. 外交官　【がいこうかん】　→　diplomat

4. 戦争　【せんそう】→　war

5. 職業　【しょくぎょう】→　occupation

6. 養う　【やしなう】→　to adopt (a child)

7. 黄昏　【たそがれ】→　twilight [🕵️]

8. 冒険　【ぼうけん】→　adventure, venture

9. ワクワク　→　thrilled, getting excited (onomatopoeia)

10. 秘密　【ひみつ】→　secret

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(that's all I had noted - would keep adding more vocab as i keep watching if it helps! (◍•ᴗ•◍))

[zhuzhudushu]

凉菜 – "Cool" Foods

These foods levels are never ending lol

There are 热菜 Hot Foods and 凉菜 Cool/Cold Foods. These words are only used to describe 主菜 Main Dishes, not 小菜 Side Dishes or 开胃菜 Appetizers. Despite being 凉 meaning "cool" it is used for cold dishes. This also goes for water, which is why if you want cold water, you must ask for 冰水 Ice Water instead of 凉水 which would be more like cool/room temperature water.

热菜 Hot Dishes are most dishes, especially meats.

凉菜 Cool/Cold Dishes:

豆腐丝 / dòu fu sī / shredded tofu

泡菜 / pài cài / pickled cabbage

凉面 / liáng miàn / cold noodles

酸辣黄瓜 / suān là huáng guā / sour & spicy cucumber

Review/Extra Vocab:

主菜 / zhǔ cài / main dish

主食 / zhǔ shí / main food, staple

小菜 / xiǎo cài / side dish

开胃菜 / kāi wèi cài / appetizer

凉快 / liáng kuài / cool (temperature)

暖和 / nuǎn huo / warm (temperature)

[peachycanton]

Drops Cantonese Essentials

When it comes to taking notes and learning Cantonese, there really isn’t any super interactive applications. One I have found and really enjoyed though is Drops! It’s really fun and visual based. I’ve only done the essentials vocabulary so far but it’s really great! 

Although there is a difference between the written forms and the spoken forms. I’ll put the written form first and then the spoken like so: Written/Spoken. I have the vocabulary from the Essentials down below:

Hi    haai1   嗨

Bye     zoi3 gin3   再見

Thank You    do1 ze6   多謝

Please    cing2/ m4 goi1  請 / 唔該

Woman    neoi5 jan4   女人

Man    naam4 jan4  男人

Girl    neoi5 haai4/  neoi5 zai2  女係 / 女仔

Boy     naam4 haai4/ naam4 zai2  男孩 / 男仔

I    ngo5   我

I like    ngo5 hei2 fun1 / ngo5 zung1 yi3  我喜歡 / 我中意

I meet   gno5 jyu6 dou3/  ngo5 zong6 dou3   我遇到  / 我撞到

Yes   si6 /  hai6   是 / 係

No     bat1// m4 hai6  不 / 唔係

And   wo4/  tung4  和 / 同

Or    waak6 ze2  或者

This   ze5 go3/  ni1 go3  這個 / 呢個

Special Note: The word for “Hi” is unclear in a way. While Drops tries to teach you that “Hi” is written as “嗨” and the jyutping for it is “haai1″, I was actually unable to type that out on my keyboard. It didn’t work for neither my phone nor my computer. Also, you can say “Hello” like this “nei5 hou2″ and “你好”。

[latte-lingual]

大家们！我很开心 - 昨天我终于学到怎样玩麻将，赢了三次游戏！我已经很久想要学习怎样玩，感到很有成就！^^

[zhuzhudushu]

素菜 Vegetable Dishes

From my Yoyo Chinese lesson today :P

素菜 / sù cài / vegetable dish

荤菜，葷菜 / hūn cài / non-vegetable dish (meat or seafood)

素菜 Vegetable Dishes:

豆腐 / dòu fu / tofu

土豆 / tǔ dòu / potato

白菜 / bái cài / chinese cabbage

菜花 / cài huā / cauliflower

西兰花，西蘭花 / xī lán huā / broccoli

萝卜，蘿蔔 / luó bo / radish

豆腐 Types of Tofu:

臭豆腐 / chòu dòu fu / stinky tofu

家常豆腐 / jiā cháng dòu fu / home style tofu

炸豆腐 / zhá dòu fu / fried tofu

麻婆豆腐 / má pó dòu fu / mapo tofu (in chili sauce)

Some other functional words for how dishes can be prepared:

粒 / lì / chopped (literally: grain)

丝，絲 / sī / shredded

片 / piàn / sliced

丁 / dīng / diced

烤 / kǎo / roasted

[i-read-in-five-languages-deacti]

2022-06-24

Hello! I am enjoying writing all the vocab again (cause I got a new notebook!)

[latte-lingual]

intro / 自我介绍

大家好！这是我最先的博文，所以我想跟你们介绍我自己一下！你们可以称呼我K或小桃，很开心认识你们！

我已经在学习普通话超过十年，大约在四年级开始上中文补习班。我是在香港出生﹑长大，但因为我是混血儿 (爸爸是英国人，一点中文都不能说！) 我们在家里面平时用英文沟通。因此，我的母语是英文，而我的中文水平不是那么高。我妈妈是香港人，但因为我爸爸不讲中文，我的广东话也不是太好的。(真可怜)

今年六月，我终于毕业大学了，然后以为我可以用这间空时来学习中文，提高我的水平，就决定开这个博客分享我自己学习中文的旅程！

如果你读到这个地方，谢谢你的注意！我希望我可以在languageblr找其他正在学中文的人交友，也可以慢慢来进步我的语言能力！如果你想跟我交通，你可以密我！

[english translation below]

hi everyone! this is my very first blog post, so i wanted to introduce myself to you guys! you can call me k or ‘xiao tao’ (aka ‘lil peach’), i’m super happy to meet you guys!

i’ve been learning mandarin (putonghua) for over ten years now, having started attending chinese lessons in around the fourth grade. i was born and raised in hong kong, however because i’m mixed (my dad is english and can’t speak a word of chinese!) at home we mostly use english to communicate. therefore, my mother tongue is english, and my level of chinese isn’t all that advanced. my mum is hong kong chinese, but because my dad can’t speak chinese, my cantonese isn’t very good either. (f in the chat)

in june of this year, i finally graduated university, and figured i could use this free time to learn chinese and improve my level, and decided to start this blog to share my own chinese learning journey!

if you’ve read up until this point, thanks for your attention! i hope i can find other people learning chinese on languageblr and even make friends with some of y’all, as well as slowly improve my language ability! if you want to get in touch, just message me!

[peachteastudies99]

Chinese vocab study∼ I recently got my listening exam results back and I got 79.5% and I’m still happy over it. I’ve never gotten such a good result in this spoken class except that time my teacher scrapped half a weekly quiz because it didn’t meet the course guidelines. Hopefully my final speaking goes just as well! 加油!!

[rioabaixo]

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[whenstudyblooms]

『08.01.18』 

Hello August!🌸 The new theme for this month is My Melody (with pinks, blues, and yellows). 💖 This is a peek of a journal spread I made~ Do you have a favorite character? ✨

「Quick tip: Good habits when working in front of a screen for long hours: close your eyes for a few minutes every hour or two and get up from your chair to stretch or walk around. 」

🌸 studygram 🌸

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winter wondernekoland

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