#chinese studies

[munchkins-blog]

Had a paper writing session with some friends. (Currently working on 2 papers, each have to be 15 to 20 pages)

Overall productivity of today was a solid 8/10. As per usual, the weather was gloomy and windy, but on the bright side I had a tasty chocolate pastry today.

🎶🎧

[martybaker]

graduated, I’m free! I had questions about Li Bai, the New Culture Movement and Yellow Turban Rebellion on my oral exam which were good topics, but they asked specifics about dates and numbers which I don’t remember 🙈 nevertheless, success!

[weavingmythos]

10/09.

We're taking today easy uwu~ My plan is to do some self-study of Korean for most of the day ( I'm working through TTMIK's my first 500 Korean words ) & revising my mandarin vocab so that it sticks. Besides that I'm hanging out in a friends livestream & hoping to read a whole HEAP today.

CURRENTLY READING: Babel - R.F Kuang & An exciting and vivid inner life - Paul Dalla Rosa

CURRENTLY LISTENING: Cyberpunk - ATEEZ

[hesitationss]

if i want to learn to read in chinese (cantonese) what are the best free resources to do so? i still have the muscle memory for writing from when i was in chinese school (like proper stroke order and such) but i would like to be able to read! also is there a difference between cantonese and mandarin for reading? idrc about speaking since i am coming from a toisanese bg anyway so i know some basic cantonese!

[formgoodaffinities]

This post is about some of the non-flower flowers...

老花 Lǎo huā (lit. old flower) presbyopia. basically it's the phenomenon that makes things you see blurry, due to old age.

天花 tiān huā (lit. sky flower) smallpox. It's named after it's the rash/ blister caused by smallpox.

天花板 tiān huā bǎn (lit. sky flower board) ceiling. This is actually from back in the days when they painted the ceiling with lotus flower.

豆花 dòu huā (lit. bean flower) a soft tofu dessert. Which comes from the full name 豆腐花, meaning tofu that is not pressed. But what does it have to do with flower? no idea.

棉花 mián huā (lit. cotton flower) cotton. The white fluffy part of the cotton plant, which is not the flower part but the boil of the plant.

蔥花 cōng huā (lit. onion flower) diced green onion. Note that nothing else diced is named in this way. If you say 洋蔥花 (not a real term!) I'll think of the fried onion appetizer awesome blossom.

蛋花 dàn huā (lit. egg flower) when you beat eggs and cook them in soup to make them look like...scattered...soft..silky pieces of eggs.

and a fun one: 花心 huā xīn (lit. flower heart) adjective to teasingly describe someone who have romantic interests in others easily. This is usually used for CRUSHES and not actual relationship, which makes the term kind of funny and somewhat harmless.

It's someone who tends to develop crushes easily and often on different people. Can be used with both guys and girls. The opposite term would be 專情 zhuān qíng. Also, 花心大蘿蔔 huā xīn dà luóbo is a playful way to call a guy that likes a bunch of girls. (Lit means flower heart big turnip. )

This really shows how Chinese people *date* differently than the western culture, doesn't it?

[ancient-rust]

25.05.2023

Pics from a small evening study session I did a while ago. I haven’t revised any Chinese in forever but I have to say, it was easier to get back into than I had anticipated.

[thebostontea]

(the 2nd mc is speaking chinese)

zee (to nunew): do you understand everything?

nunew: yes

zee: 😌 *impressed*

nunew: but it’s difficult 😖

zee: *nods*

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THIS. as a chinese studies major (i study the same thing as nunew), i can tell you that this is the universal experience. when people see us listening to chinese, they ask “wait how can you understand everything? DO you understand everything?”, so we answer “yeah” but later it’s so awkward cause we don’t want to seem as boasting so we add sth later on like “yeah but it’s difficult/they’re speaking very fast 😖” (sometimes it truly is lmao)

+ nunew is SO GOOD at grammar stuff like BRUH, the way he remembers even the smallest things it’s WILD

[yinlotus]

as of now, i am officially an Art History major (East Asian Religions focus) with a double minor in Museum Studies and Chinese Language and Cultural Studies

i'm also officially an online student for the next year! yayy. hoping i stick with it this time haha :)