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8 Love's Lies
Women can be difficult to understand. Men often find themselves going crazy trying to figure us out. Itās hard to know what weāre thinking! This is especially true when it comes to women in China. Many Chinese ladies will say yes when what they mean is no, especially when they are communicating with their boyfriend or husband. In general Chinese women tend to be more restrained, and do not express themselves in a direct way. So how can you know what we are thinking? Let me reveal to you ā8 Loveās Liesā help you understand their true meaning.
1. ä½ å„½ē¬Øåļ¼ nĒ hĒo bĆØn a!Ā
You are so stupid!
If a Chinese woman says this, donāt take it negatively. This is actually an expression of love and affection. Sometimes, we use ā笨 (bĆØn)ā to describe our boyfriends in an endearing manner. Chinese women often use negative words like ā笨 (bĆØn) stupidā or āč ¢ (chĒn) stupidā when talking with people who are close to them because they know these words they can use freely. The relationship between them is so close, they feel comfortable being free with their language and making fun. This is a way to express their close relationship. Other similar expressions include:
å°ē¬Øč (xiĒo bĆØndĆ n): Small stupid, Little fool.
Example:
XiĒo bĆØndĆ n, nĒ zhÄn de hĒo kÄāĆ i.
å°ē¬Øč, ä½ ēē儽åÆē±.
Little fool, you are so lovely.
2. ä½ å„½č®Øåļ¼ nĒ hĒo tĒoyĆ n! Ā Ā
You are so annoying!
Some Chinese women use this sentence when they want to act cute. Usually, when they say this expression the real intention is āyou are amusingā or āyou are lovely and I like you.ā
3. ęę²”äŗļ¼/ ęå¾å„½ļ¼wĒ mĆ©ishƬ! / WĒ hÄn hĒo! Ā
Iām okay! / Iām very good!
Trust me, if a Chinese lady says āęę²”äŗ (wĒ mĆ©ishƬ)ā or āęå¾å„½ (wĒ hÄn hĒo)āāmost of time they are meaning the exactly opposite: āI am not okay.ā Like many women, Chinese women will often try to hide feelings of depression, anger, or cover up the fact that they have made any mistakes. By saying this they are able to avoid the inconvenience of having to reflect on these things. They want to keep you from worrying, too. But donāt be fooled. When they say theyāre okay, they are really saying is, āIām not okay, and Iām not very happy.ā
4. 太蓵äŗļ¼tĆ i guƬ le!
Too expensive!
If you go shopping with your Chinese girlfriend, she might say āå¤Ŗč“µäŗ (tĆ i guƬ le).ā So how do you think you would react? Oftentimes men will go out of the store and compare the price of other items. This is NOT the thing to do in China. Because āå¤Ŗč“µäŗ (tĆ i guƬ le) Too expensiveā actually means āshe really, really likes this thing.ā If your lady is shopping with you and sees something very special, her first reaction is to go forward and check it carefully. If she sees the price is high, she will often say ā太蓵äŗļ¼ę们äøéč¦ä¹°ć(tĆ i guƬ le, wĒmen bù xÅ« yÄo mĒi) Itās too expensive, we donāt need to buy it.ā At this time, the considerate man should know that the woman really likes the item, not that she doesnāt like it.
5. ęäøåØä¹ćwĒ bù zĆ ihÅ«.
I donāt care.
āęäøåØä¹ (wĒ bùzĆ ihÅ«) I donāt care.ā- again, the opposite. She totally cares. For example: Some females show a careless attitude toward their boyfriendās ex-girlfriends. They even say āęäøåØä¹ (wĒ bùzĆ ihÅ«) I donāt care.ā Donāt be fooled! Men need to know that this is often said by women who do not want to appear jealous. But the truth is, if your girlfriend cares for you, she cares about your history. So donāt get tricked on this one. She definitely cares.
6. ęåä¹äøę³č§å°ä½ !Ā wĒ zĆ i yÄ bùxiĒng jiĆ n dĆ o nĒ!
I donāt want to see you again!
Women often use words like āęåä¹äøę³č§å°ä½ (wĒ zĆ i yÄ bùxiĒng jiĆ n dĆ o nĒ) I donāt want to see you again!ā to hide their disappointment. This is just a kneejerk statement. Donāt take her literally when she says this. When you hear this phrase, know that she just might need a little space, or even a hug and some affection to show her how much you care. These bad moods may come often, so donāt be intimidated by them.
7. ä½ ęÆäøäøŖå„½äŗŗćĀ nĒ shƬ yÄ«gĆØ hĒorĆ©n.Ā
You are a good guy.
If a Chinese lady says to you: āä½ ęÆäøäøŖå„½äŗŗ (nĒ shƬ yĆ gĆØ hĒorĆ©n) You are a good person.ā you have the right to feel disappointed. Because Chinese women only express this kind of admiration to a guy they are officially putting in the friend zone. What sounds like admiration is just a basic declaration of: āYou are just a friend and Iām not interested in you romantically.ā In Chinese, we say is āåå„½äŗŗå” (FÄ hĒorĆ©n kĒ) send good guy card.ā or that ā儽人å”ļ¼ In the friend zoneā.
8. ę²”å ³ē³»ļ¼ä½ å»åæå§ļ¼ mĆ©iguÄnxƬ, nĒ qù mĆ”ng ba!
It does not matter, you can go to work!
Usually women will say āę²”å ³ē³»ļ¼ä½ å»åæå§ (mĆ©iguÄnxƬ, nĒ qù mĆ”ng ba) It does not matter, you can go to work!ā when you say that you are tied up with work and canāt make time right then to be with her. But you should know that when they say this they do in fact want your company, then and there. Most of time, when it comes to either your work or your girlfriend, your girlfriend hopes that she is the top priority.
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å¾®éŗ wÄixÅ«n / tipsy
I saw a Spotify playlist āęēå¾®éŗå¤ā and recognized å¾® from yesterdayās post, but had to look up éŗ, since I was previously only familiar with é zuƬ for ādrunkā.
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This group is from the Tibetan Autonomous Region in China. The song theyāre singing in this video was released in 1937. They reworked it by adding lyrics in Tibetan. You can listen to the original here.
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Bruh that shit was completely mental to me when it came out when I was a kid and I still think itās crazy. When they introduced street view I lost my shit. There was really a group organized enough to go around photographing every street? In vast areas of the world? Insane
Remember the whole family crowding round the computer just to look at your own house from the outside???
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so this youtube playlist is really greatĀ
it contains approximately 100 short videos (each about 1:30 long) that cover a bunch of mandarin slang
examples of some of the phrases covered:
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the videos are completely in mandarin, but there are subtitles in english, mandarin, and pinyin. the speakers also speak at a nice speed so itās easier to understand what theyāre saying
the channel (GoEast language center) has lots of other videos that are also geared towards teaching mandarin so definitely check it out
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Taiwan Street Food Map by Liv Wan. Illustration. 2015.
Liv Wan is an illustrator from Taipei, Taiwan and has has been living in the UK since 2007. Before pursuing a full time freelance career, she was a professionally trained chef and published her cookbook, Homestyle Taiwanese Cooking. Wan describes her illustration style as bold, fun and colourful. She often incorporates good humour into her work as she wishes to bring happiness to the viewers. Her work has been commissioned by various international companies and she has received awards from Adobe Design Achievement and 3x3 International Illustration Magazine.Ā
Taiwan Street Food Map is an illustration commissioned for a Taiwanese souvenir company to be printed onto postcards. Inspired by Taiwan being a country famous for its cheap and delicious street foods, the map illustrates the major areas and its local street food specialty.
Image courtesy of Liv WanĀ
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Lunar DialĀ (ęę·). Gao Yuan (é«ęŗ). Animated short film. 2016.
Gao Yuan is a queer Chinese artist born in Kunming, China and currently based in New York and Beijing. Working largely in animation and painting, her work is invested in homogeneity and repetition across images - and how temporality relates to those two concepts. Gaoās work is rich in symbolism, with a particular interest in the surreal as a means of depicting the fluidity of consciousness.
Lunar Dial is a hand-drawn animation of a montage of paintings and drawing, realised over the course of six years by Gao. A cyclical piece, the work draws on questions of time and the ways in which theĀ āpresentā continually revisits both past and future through the repeating images of flowing water, lighting and artefacts of knowledge. Lunar Dial has been selected in major film festivals across the world, and was nominated for the Tiger Awards for Short FilmsĀ in 2017 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, as well as receiving a Special Mention of the Jury atĀ the 2016 CutOut Fest International Animation and Digital ARt Festival.
You can watch the trailer for Lunar Dial here.
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