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Random Chinese vocabulary from Podcast

平息 píngxī ： calm down, quiet down

出色：chūsè： outstanding, remarkable, splendid 

出场 chūchǎng：come on the stage, appear on the scene 

明显 míngxiǎn： clear, obvious, evident

收回 shōuhuí： take back, call in, recall 

自信 zìxìn : firmly believe, feel convinced // adj: self confident, confident 

(to have self-confidence : 有自信心）

紧张 jǐnzhāng nervous, intense

特权 tèquán: privilege, prerogative

误区 wùqū：persistent mistaken idea

善于 shànyú ： be good at

混乱 hùnluàn： confused, chaotic （管理混乱 - bad management）

团建：tuánjiàn: team building （abr. of 团队建设）

感动 gǎndòng：move, touch, affect （深为感动- be deeply touched）

关注 guānzhù：follow with interest, pay close attention to

阳历 yánglì：solar calendar // 阴历 yīnlì lunar calendar

[jareckiworld]

Zhang Gong — Beijing No.3  (acrylic on canvas, 2014)

[ignitification]

Are you all seeing this or is it just me?

[tokyoproxy]

details from kiki’s house / 魔女の宅急便 /

[goodplan-ipromise]

[chinese-word-a-day]

漫画

[ mànhuà ] - manga, cartoon

[mandarinmostly]

me: how do I practice my talking and listening skills?

everyone ever: talk to a native speaker

me: …..no…….. that …. that can’t be it ….. there’s gotta be something else

[blackberrybisexual]

Chinese: Adjectives

Um so just a bunch of fairly common (?) adjectives in Chinese, hope this is useful or sth? (Pls correct mistakes & feel free to add on!)

Colors

Black (hēisè) 黑色(的)

White (báisè) 白色(的)

Gray (huīsè) 灰色(的)

Brown (zōngsè) 棕色(的)

Blue (lánsè) 蓝色(的)

Green (lǜsè) 绿色(的)

Red (hóngsè) 红色(的)

Orange (chéngsè) 橙色(的)

Yellow (huángsè) 黄色(的)

Purple (zǐsè) 紫色(的)

Pink (fěnsè) 粉色(的)

Dark (shēn) 深

Light (qiǎn) 浅

Size/Shape/Texture

Big (dà) 大

Small (xiǎo) 小

Deep (shēn) 深

Shallow (qiǎn) 浅

Long (cháng) 长

Short [brief] (duǎn) 短

Wide (kuān) 宽

Narrow (zhǎi) 窄

High (gāo) 高

Low (dī) 低

Thick (cū) 粗

Thin (xì) 细

Round (tuán) 团

Hard (yìng) 硬

Soft (ruǎn) 软

Heavy (zhòng) 重

Light [weight] (qīng) 轻

Tastes

Salty (xián) 咸

Sweet (tián) 甜

Sour (suān) 酸

Bitter (kǔ) 苦

Fresh (xiān) 鲜

Spicy (lā) 辣

Tasty (hǎochī) 好吃

Bland (dàn) 淡

[mandarinmostly]

favourite bilingual sentences I’ve heard and/or said while in Chinese school:

“Shit you really 干ed your 杯, huh?”

“送给我 a blowjob, you asshole”

“我不在the mood里”

“A hole is a hole, 对不对”

“Im gonna 他妈的杀你”

[mandarinmostly]

I can’t hear tones in the slightest unless used in isolation and I’m starting to believe they’re a myth created by the government to discourage me from learning chinese

[linghxr]

MMM Day 21: 戴佩妮 (Penny Tai) - 你要的愛

[Mandarin Music March Masterpost]

This song is another older one–it’s off of Penny Tai’s 2001 album《怎樣》. It’s also iconic because it was the ending theme song for the Taiwanese 2001 Meteor Garden《流星花園》. This song was showing up in my YouTube recommendations for a while, but I never clicked on it because I assumed it was another typical ballad or something. Well, I was wrong! This song starts out slow, but it builds as it goes. Definitely worth a listen (or 25 listens). There’s a reason people still love it 20 years later.

戴佩妮 (Penny Tai) - 你要的愛

雖然經常夢見你 還是毫無頭緒 外面正在下著雨 今天是星期幾 But I don’t know 你去那裡

夢見 mèngjiàn - to dream about / to see in a dream 毫無 háowú - not in the least / to completely lack 頭緒 tóuxù - outline / main threads

雖然不曾懷疑你 還是忐忑不定 誰是你的那個唯一 原諒我懷疑自己

忐忑 tǎntè - nervous / apprehensive 不定 bùdìng - indefinite / indeterminate

我明白 我要的愛 會把我寵壞 像一個小孩 只懂在你懷裡壞

寵壞 chǒnghuài - to spoil (a child etc)

你要的愛 不只是依賴 要像個大男孩 風吹又日曬 生活自由自在

依賴 yīlài - to depend on / to be dependent on 曬 shài - (of the sun) to shine on 自由自在 zìyóuzìzài - free and easy / carefree / leisurely

Keep reading

[meichenxi]

Ashley 我的出柜故事 & 为什么做这个电台

Listen to this episode from OutChina电台 on Spotify. 我是Ashley，来自上海。在4年前我开始了OutChina这个项目，通过影像记录中国LGBTQ群体的故事。现在我想要开始做podcast。这是我背后的思考，也是一个新的旅程。"

Hi everyone! I've just found this amazing podcast on Spotify run by a Chinese lesbian:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6F0QkPnBXlqJnanUMHL0H1?si=GaKNXGHQRqeWKydxxDQrvQ&utm_source=copy-link

It's called OutChina电台. She talks about her experience growing up LGBT+ in China, how she fell in love for the first time never having heard the word 'gay' or knowing other people like her really existed. I've just finished the first episode, and would thoroughly recommend, especially if you'd like to learn more vocabulary and ways to talk about queerness and being queer in Chinese, as well as learn about some experiences different guests of all gender and sexual identities share about their experiences in the community in China.

Her Chinese is very standard but she does speak quite quickly; I think this would be most suitable for intermediate-advanced learners.

[frottinq]

I hate america too but the last person I wanna hear it from is some western european

[verdantloved]

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[nanazw]

Random Japanese words I’ve learned (first 15 Hiragana)

かさ　umbrella

おす　to push

きし　knight

すぐ　immediately

すき　to like

けす　to erase

くじ　lottery

しお　salt

いしき　consciousness

しぐさ　mannerism，gesture

さそう　to invite

おこす　to wake sb. up

すこし　a little

さがす　to search

しかし　square

かえす　to return

うさぎ　rabbit

さいせい　playback

おかしい　strange

がくせい　student

[ghiblifilm]

SPIRITED AWAY 千と千尋の神隠し 2001 | dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[kamuis]

i’m begging y’all to stop saying “chinese” when you mean mandarin (putong hua). chinese is not a language. if you mean the chinese characters (trad or simp it doesnt matter) then fine - that’s leeway granted for that, but literally nobody “speaks chinese” bc it is not a language. and it also erases the hundreds of dying chinese dialects spoken across the world. it’s seriously pissing me off like think of the context of what “chinese” you are posting before you post it our languages are dying and the least that can be done here is to not act like they don’t even exist

[kamuis]

oh yea this is rebloggable but also to add on:

it’s not even being finicky about pronunciation much to the dismay of many, because the grammatical structure of many dialects is so wildly different from putong hua, and even those dialects have variations that make them difficult to understand by others at best (e.g fujian hokkien, the dialects spoken in taiwan and the hokkien spoken in malaysian and singaporean countries are not the same). you could write the same sentence in the characters in mando and if you try to read it in a number of other dialects it’s likely to make literally no sense and vice versa.

and to push it further even putong hua (mandarin) has speech differences between the northerners and those lower down south like. idk it just sounds slightly laughable when people are like “ wow chinese is so hard” like yes which one of the 200+ dialects and variations of those do you mean

[fuck-autocracy]

Ok. I’m Chinese. My whole family is. We primarily speak Cantonese. This may be hard for you to hear, but literally none of us give a shit about this, grandparents included. Everyone refers to it as Chinese. We only say Mandarin or Cantonese or whatever unique dialect subcategory of Cantonese my dad’s side speaks when we’re being specific about them, usually when the subject of the conversation itself is about different dialects. And guess what? ALL of those fall under the category of Chinese. Why don’t we always just say Mandarin or Cantonese or whichever dialect? Because it’s *not important* in the context of most conversations. In many cases, if we say just the dialect instead of just “Chinese,” it can actually serve to make whatever we’re trying to convey more confusing. If, instead of saying “Chinese,” I only specified the dialect-subcategory-of-Cantonese-my-dad’s-side-speaks (don’t actually know what it’s called) in normal conversation in reference to the Chinese language in general, no one who doesn’t know about that dialect would know what the fuck I’m talking about. But if I said Chinese, people know immediately. If they were looking into specifics, then they’d ask. It’s not rude to ask. “Chinese” is an umbrella term for the sake of simplicity.

This is a non-problem. It only is because of pretentious Tumblr bed-wetters who want to hold a sense of superiority over others. Do you think a typical white American would know what exactly Cantonese, or any other increasingly obscure dialect is? No. They know the term “Chinese,” and it’s COMPLETELY FINE to leave it at that. If you want to teach them about specific dialects, then fine. But don’t fucking act like everyone has to know about the different dialects. Fuck off.

[roseteastudy]

I agree with @fuck-autocracy. Literally every Chinese person I know, whether born and raised in China or in the states/Canada/elsewhere uses “Chinese” as an umbrella term for all the Chinese dialects/languages. Some of us speak Mandarin, some speak Canto, some speak other regional dialects (Shanghainese, Teochew, Hokkien, etc.) For the most part, we all consider each of these dialects and languages to be languages of the Chinese people, and thus “Chinese.”

Obviously there are people who are ignorant and think that Chinese is just one language, but ultimately it is not up to us to educate them by referring to the language we speak by a more confusing, specific term instead of the umbrella term we’re used to using and everyone knows.

It’s like OP is saying, “Don’t call yourself Chinese! Call yourself Taiwanese or Shanghainese or Chaozhounese or Tibetan.” Or, “Don’t say you’re Chinese when you really mean you’re Han.” We are all Chinese, and we all speak Chinese. There’s no need to be unnecessarily pedantic.