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Happy Chinese New Year!
Today, we are gonna talk about snakes in Chinese words!
蛇形走位、画蛇添足、打草惊蛇、蛇吞象
Happy Chinese New Year!
Today, we are gonna talk about snakes in Chinese words!
蛇形走位、画蛇添足、打草惊蛇、蛇吞象
The YouTube video that I mentioned in this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIP8yVcDZRI
The YouTube video that I mentioned in this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIP8yVcDZRI
Errata:
1. In the pronunciation section of this episode, I gave the example of how native Chinese speakers might pronounce "desk" as "des," but this usually happens when there’s a need to link the word with the following one. "Desk" and "fast" are often pronounced differently, where each consonant gets an additional vowel sound. For example, "desk" might sound like "desike" and "fast" might sound like "fasite." This type of mistake is also common among Japanese native speakers.
2. In the grammar section of this episode, I gave an example like "The teacher explains the lesson clearly, which students understand easily," but I think this example isn’t quite appropriate. A better example would be: In Chinese, you can say "因为老师讲课很清晰,所以学生理解起来很容易" However, directly translating it into English as "Because teacher explains the lesson clearly, so students can understand easily" would have grammatical issues.
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In this episode, I will use examples of mistakes I often make while learning English to show you how you can use these errors to help with learning Chinese.
勘误:
1. 在本期发音部分,我举例中文母语者会吧desk读成des,但它通常发生在需要与后面的单词进行连读的时候。desk,fast另一种经常被读的方式是,为每个辅音加上一个原因,desk⭢desike,fast⭢fasite。这种错误,日语母语者中也很常见。
2. 在本期语法部分,我举了一个“老师讲课很清晰,学生理解很容易”的例子,但我觉得并不合适。
我觉得最合适的例子是,中文中你可以说“因为老师讲课很清晰,所以学生理解起来很容易”但是直译成英语“Because teacher explains the lesson clearly, so students can understand easily.” 就是有语病的。
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本期,我将以我自己在学习英语中时经常犯的错误为例,告诉大家如何根据这些错误来帮助大家学习中文。
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