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| bio | website | pootonghua.com |
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| location | London / Hong Kong / Shenzhen | |
| age | 30 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 5 months |
| seen | May 18 at 18:56 | |
| stats | profile views | 48 |
A British programmer living in Guangdong. I build websites and mobile applications for whoever will pay me, and spend the rest of my time eating 土豆丝，叉烧饭 and 焗猪扒饭。
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Apr 14 |
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How do I know when I am “fluent”? I like this. I guess I hold "fluency" as this advanced goal I would never believe myself to achieve. But it does "flow". I guess that's a natural definition. |
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Apr 14 |
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How do I know when I am “fluent”? Yeah, its a question I want to answer for myself, but not quite a SE question. I can watch films with chinese subtitles, but struggle with just audio. |
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Apr 14 |
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How do I know when I am “fluent”? I think native speakers said that 5 years ago, but it wasn't very genuine. |
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Apr 2 |
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Is there a literal meaning of 对不起? well explained. |
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Mar 26 |
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How can I skip characters I can't read when reading aloud? that's an interesting suggestion, thanks. |
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Mar 26 |
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How can I skip characters I can't read when reading aloud? @孤影萍踪 yeah. I wrote my comment, then saw your update. Thanks. |
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Mar 25 |
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How can I skip characters I can't read when reading aloud? if there were two characters, would you repeat the "什么"? |
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Mar 25 |
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How can I skip characters I can't read when reading aloud? obviously this doesn't happen in the same way in English, but if a name is very long, it's not uncommon to forget some of it "lemony snickets: a series of something something" |
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Mar 11 |
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Why does the word 萌 mean “cute”? which is then re-transliterated to 卡哇伊 :) |
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Feb 25 |
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Why does 三八 mean gossip? I'm having trouble deciding which to accept. This explanation is rather simpler than QuestionOverflow's. |
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Feb 25 |
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Why does 三八 mean gossip? This is an interesting answer, certainly nothing I'd heard of before. |
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Feb 4 |
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In “我只喜歡你一個” what does the “一個” do? this is the answer I was looking for, thanks. |
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Feb 4 |
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In “我只喜歡你一個” what does the “一個” do? "I like you alone" isn't good english which threw me off. I had a minor thought that it might mean "I only like you when you're on your own" |
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Jan 23 |
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How do Chinese people pronounce Latin characters? @NS.X. this is the answer I was looking for, but it seems I phrased my question wrong. Should have said "Why is X sometimes pronounced Cha1, and are other letters treated similarly?". But given the title I gave JamesJiao's answer is the right one. |
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Jan 23 |
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How do Chinese people pronounce Latin characters? I assumed ChinesePod's vocabulary wasn't too obscure, perhaps they included this one just for fun, then. |
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Jan 23 |
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How do Chinese people pronounce Latin characters? That's pretty interesting. I'm surprised ChinesePod didn't mention the 叉 reference (I should double check). |
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Jan 17 |
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How did 黃 (yellow) come to mean “pornographic”? thanks for the extra info |
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Jan 8 |
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How did 黃 (yellow) come to mean “pornographic”? This is something the OECD would be good at, were it an english use of the word. Normally they'd find notable example of its use with this meaning. |
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Jan 8 |
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How did 黃 (yellow) come to mean “pornographic”? Thanks John. I first learned this from mainland friends, but my taiwanese friends also use this term. So I guess it has a longer history. |
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Dec 30 |
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Why does the word 萌 mean “cute”? so seeing beautiful things make us "burn"? |
