The Devil is gonna be back!!!!!

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RonBee said:
No, I can't speak Chinese at all. :(

Wait! I do know a little Chinese. See:
  • tea
    bamboo
    silk

What do you think?

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Not bad! :up:

[Chinese:Lesson One]
The descendants of dragon is Chinese.

Chinese character ==>龍
Chinese pronunciation ==> long (2) second tone, as Chinese is a tone language.
English ==>dragon

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Was "dragon" originally a Chinese word?

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No.

But tea is definitely borrowed from Chinese.


Do you know the pronouns "they" "their" and "them" are loan words from Scandinavian language Old Norse? :lol:


English has borrowed extensively. Of the 20,000 or so words incommom use, about three-fifths are borrowed.
[Originated from: An introduction to language/ Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman]
 
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Tea took a long route to get to us:

[Probably Dutch thee, from Malay teh, from Chinese (Amoy) te(equivalent to Chinese (Mandarin) chá).]

However, we also have a more direct form 'cha', which probably came via Portuguese, as a Portuguese Queen (Charles II's wife) introduced the custom of afternoon tea to England. ;-)
 
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Just curious, but what shocks you? (If you don't mind.)

Hm. On this thread I am talking to three guys from China. Interesting. All of you are much better at English than I ever will be at Chinese. I do enjoy talking to you. I learn much by doing that.

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Never mind! But I don't know how to say that. I often see the news programs, concerning the national people's lives, the normal civilians' lives, the peasants' hard lives! Many pictures/images are too astounding!!!
How useless my words are!!!
 
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say nothing huh??........I don't know.......useless and helpless!...
 
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He'll be back.;-)
 
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RonBee said:
Just curious, but what shocks you? (If you don't mind.)

Hm. On this thread I am talking to three guys from China. Interesting. All of you are much better at English than I ever will be at Chinese. I do enjoy talking to you. I learn much by doing that.

:D
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Never mind! But I don't know how to say that. I often see the news programs, concerning the national people's lives, the normal civilians' lives, the peasants' hard lives! Many pictures/images are too astounding!!!
How useless my words are!!!
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We just chose two different roads for future lives.
I'm Chinese nationality, but I don't wanna be Chinese citizenship of China,P.R anymore. neither do my kids.
 
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We just chose two different roads for future lives.
I'm Chinese nationality, but I don't wanna be Chinese citizenship of China,P.R anymore. neither do my kids.
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er... which road did I choose?? :p hehe
well....you have your own thoughts and your choices.:)
 
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blacknomi said:
No.

But tea is definitely borrowed from Chinese.


Do you know the pronouns "they" "their" and "them" are loan words from Scandinavian language Old Norse? :lol:


English has borrowed extensively. Of the 20,000 or so words incommom use, about three-fifths are borrowed.
[Originated from: An introduction to language/ Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman]
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I didn't remember that about they, their and them, but I am not surprised. (Quite a few English words came from Old Norse. Even the verb to be was influenced by it.)

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GGump said:
RonBee said:
Just curious, but what shocks you? (If you don't mind.)

Hm. On this thread I am talking to three guys from China. Interesting. All of you are much better at English than I ever will be at Chinese. I do enjoy talking to you. I learn much by doing that.

:D
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Never mind! But I don't know how to say that. I often see the news programs, concerning the national people's lives, the normal civilians' lives, the peasants' hard lives! Many pictures/images are too astounding!!!
How useless my words are!!!
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As I understand it, many Chinese labor on small farms the same way they have for centuries. Is that right?

I understand that many people were displaced by the Three Gorges Dam. Has that project been completed?

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Sigh, never mind, you're too busy here, kinda stuck? How can we lock this post and then open a new and short one?
 
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eric2004 said:
Sigh, never mind, you're too busy here, kinda stuck? How can we lock this post and then open a new and short one?
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Well, it is true that it can be kind of hard for me to keep up with a thread that has gotten kind of long. I didn't think I was doing that bad a job of keeping up. (Perhaps I did miss something tho.) :)

If you start a new one it will certainly be shorter than this one. :wink:

Are you sure you can't tell me about at least one of the things I missed?

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