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[avec-espoir]

2026年8月17日 (距考试还有61天):

HSK1 3.0 词汇 -> anki (301 -> 400)

HSK2 语法 (31 -> 35)

一篇简单的新闻文章 (《古人的鞋头为什么向上?》)

我今天去看牙医了。

[avec-espoir]

2026年8月16日 (距考试还有62天):

HSK1 3.0 词汇 -> anki (13 -> 300)

HSK2 语法 (23 -> 30)

一篇简单的新闻文章 (《休想，你想都别想》)

逐玉 第十一集到第十三集 (英文字幕)

一个宁静的周日。

[slavic-roots-western-mind]

圭 Character breakdown

圭 - guī - a way to refer to a jade tablet in ancient times

街 - jiē - street 街道 - jiēdào - street, road 街头 - jiētóu - street, street corner 大街小巷 - dàjiē xiǎoxiàng - streets and alleys

封 - fēng - to seal, close; an envelope 封建 - fēngjiàn - feudal, feudalism 信封 - xìnfēng - envelope 原封不动 - yuánfēng bùdòng - untouched, left exactly as it was

挂 - guà - to hang, put something up e.g. a painting on a wall 挂钩 - guàgōu -to link/connect with with someone 挂念 - guàniàn - to worry about, think about someone 牵肠挂肚 - qiāncháng guàdù - to be deeply worried about someone/something

鞋 - xié - shoe 鞋子 - xiézi - shoes 皮鞋 - píxié - leather shoes 踏破铁鞋 - tàpò tiěxié - to search far and wide for something

佳 - jiā - good, beautiful, excellent 佳肴 - jiāyáo - delicious food, delicacies 佳人 - jiārén - beautiful woman 才子佳人 - cáizǐ jiārén - talented scholar and fair lady (an ideal romantic couple)

崖 - yá - cliff 崖壁 - yábì - cliff face 悬崖 - xuányá - precipice, cliff 悬崖勒马 - xuányá lèmǎ - to stop before it is too late

桂 - guì - osmanthus 桂林 - Guìlín - Guilin 桂花 - guìhuā - osmanthus flower

蛙 - wā - frog 青蛙 - qīngwā - frog 蛙泳 - wāyǒng - breaststroke 井底之蛙 - jǐngdǐ zhī wā - a frog at the bottom of a well, someone with a narrow outlook

涯 - yá - edge, limit 生涯 - shēngyá - career, profession 天涯 - tiānyá - the ends of the earth, a faraway place 天涯海角 - tiānyá hǎijiǎo - the ends of the earth, the most remote places

洼 - wā - low-lying, hollow 洼地 - wādì - depression; low-lying land 低洼 - dīwā - low-lying 坑坑洼洼 - kēngkeng wāwā - full of bumps and hollows, uneven

畦 - qí - cultivated plot of land 畦田 - qítián - cultivated plots, fields divided into plots for farming 菜畦 - càiqí - vegetable plot

褂 - guà - jacket, gown 褂子 - guàzi - Chinese-style jacket or gown 大褂 - dàguà - long gown, long work coat 马褂 - mǎguà - traditional Chinese short jacket

跬 - kuǐ - half a pace, a short step 跬步 - kuǐbù - half a step; a small step 跬步千里 - kuǐbù qiānlǐ - a journey of a thousand li begins with small steps

[saintsqueensbutchers]

Mandarin really popped off with 了

[studyblrstruggles]

27/07/2026 黑夜告白 / Light to the Night (2026)

it's been so long since i watched any cdrama or any mandarin input like in forever (more than a year i think) so today i decided to start w this one

Ive only watched the first ep but it seemed entertaining and kinda on the fun/light mystery side without romance (i do not like any cdrama w romance, they lean too much into tropes and i feel like it is too cringey for me).

on the other hand it seems like the timeline is in the 90s which makes me wonder about the lnguage, like am i listening to not currently used vocab? Are they disregarding that? Since i have a very low level in the language and i wanna learn it, that is a worry what it comes to mind, like should i be watching tv shows that are in our currently timeline around the 2020s? But most of them are romantics shows so i do not want to watch those...

Do you hve any cdrama recs?

[coffeestainedcamera]

Ok yeah, my 2nd hsk3 mock was a 91% even tho I'm dead tired. Maybe I'll schedule the actual thing earlier than the original plan of fall this year.

[saintsqueensbutchers]

“Transliterating into the Latin alphabet is an imprecise method, since not all sounds match the alphabet. Some are more intuitive for the new alphabet while others match the original sounds better”

Yeah ok, that makes sense

“I use numbers to indicate tone when transliterating Chinese”

What the fuck

[onsevoitaminuit]

I booked a Mandarin lesson on italki today! <3