Good grief : AvenueX sparing some poison for HL in her June 24 report on airing or soon to air dramas! She "has not researched it", "just watched first episode and was grossed out. Big P. Pedophilia !!! " Well, I knew she did not belong to ZLS supporters, but now, ok, definitely a hater, targeting everything that has something to do with our actress,. Can't remember any moment she had something nice to say about her for her previous work, although she once grudgingly admitted that The Romance of Tiger and Rose was watchable. So it was, but there are quite a few that deserve more than lukewarm praise.
HL Youku Heat index has already soared to 10,000 so HL is bound to be a good one. (And no, it wouldn't be that popular if it was truly what AvX goes and rants. So although I am a fellow guqin player and Hanfu lover, I will not listen to much more of AvX almost daily chronicles on YT now. Preferring Marcus Here's shorter and well built, more factual reporting even he is not a fan of youth romances nor of ZLS. He never gets personally offensive against c-ent stars, by contrast.).
Ok that was me angrily venting against the crazies (there's another one that came to my attention). I'm done with that, and stopping my watching that chronicles "for my peace of mind" as the cobra-ish AvX sweetly expresses. Have a nice time until tomorrow. I need to catch some sleep. It's getting late now, soon Sunday and time for me to forget that ..... reporter while enjoying Hidden Love next episode.
Kids may mature more quickly now, although I don't think so, especially if they are living in a city that is not…
Of course, going with a companion schoolmate is not unheard of, but usually in real life it would be a bigger group perhaps with a teacher or anyway a "responsible adult" figure, for things like tourism or sports competitions. My family and friends would never allow their underage girls and even sons to travel on their own, unless a specific plan was made to have them monitored under way and greeted on arrival by acquaintances. I was asked to do that for the hockey playing son of a friend in Beijing, acting as surrogate parent all the way and back. There is a difference between fiction and reality. Kids in China are still the apple of the eye of most parents even after the end of the one child policy, so parents would never leave them too free, like for instance the young woman, barely of age, in The Forbidden Flower, who is monitored by a trusted maid at home, and by acquaintances even in her first years in university. If children are too pretty they also stand the risk of being kidnapped, so there is always some monitoring them to avoid that or bullying risks.
Zhao Lusi also likes cats and dogs. Her CPopHome profile mentions she has " 3 dogs and 1 cat, her dogs called Ba Wan, Mi Dou, Lai Fu, her cat called Rou Rou." I should perhaps check her fan pages for updates, but I am too lazy a keluli to do that right now 😄
So happy for this ZLS modern romance drama with gd looking CZY. So impatient for it to air, then now want it to…
Kids may mature more quickly now, although I don't think so, especially if they are living in a city that is not a provincial capital,or Beijing. I have family in China in Beijing, Shanghai and in a couple of booming third tier cities. Also friends, all with kids. Besides having taught i BJ both at high school (13-16 years old) and at young adult level (18-23 yrs old) in universities + in a language school too, for classes that were tailored to pass exams in view of study visas, so I have perspective on how Chinese youths from age 2 to 23 really behave.... In the early 1990s, classes were 50+ strong in a third tier city, with teacher and students very respectful and focused on studies. In the 2010s, they were 30 some and rather unruly for a part, daring to show their tiredness or lack of interest, but also, at 14-16 very childish, with some girls coming to show their love for teacher with budding artists drawings and cartoons. They were mostly in groups, with some shyness about opposite gender. At 17, they would have been very daring to up and take a plane to go to another city ; even taking a long distance bus or a high speed train alone would have felt the epitome of adventure for them. Completely unheard of for 14 years old except perhaps kids from the countryside who go to work in cities earlier, like the Yunnan youths who are pictured in the excellent drama Meet Yourself. The way ZLS and her younger double portray SZ strikes me as very realistic. It would be different in some other countries : I also lived in some and was interested in education there (besides being involved in other jobs and other family) . In particular, I was active in the promotion of mandarin Chinese, first through TW associations (who used bopomofo, a transliteration that was somewhat opaque to kids used to Latin alphabet), next through the Confucius institutes (who used PRC /UN pinyin), for teaching Chinese to mostly non-mandarin speaking diaspora children (of Guangdong, Fujian, other minnanhua origins, whose parents wanted them to keep some ties to their cultural roots in the face of near total acculturation) and other non-Chinese children interested in mandarin. So I also have perspective on how the youths behave elsewhere. Nutshell: sometimes ZLS acts too cute, but not here and not that childishly.
Dating in the kitchen? A nice one too ! Rosy is also my favorite C-actress, but I also love Bai Lu and Seven Tan and a handful other ones. I think HL showcases her perfectly, the trailer collection and a few BTS show her at least as lively or even happier to olay than in LLTG where she was singing and munching sweets in BTS and showing how she relaxed playing her guzheng. I feel I'm leaning towards keluli! - But let's watch ep 10 now ; it has started.
Actually native speakers learn to speak long before they learn to read ; non native speakers usually use a transliteration…
Yes, Spanish and English use the same Latin alphabet. Other European languages use it too, adding diacritical signs above or below, such as in French ç, î, à, Danish å, German "umlaut" ü, Czech ú, ř etc, or special letters such as œ, æ, ø. Vietnamese too uses Latin alphabet albeit with a wealth of diacritical signs (Chinese characters were also used up till last century ; Chữ Quốc ngữ was developed on the basis of Portuguese pronunciation by missionaries in the 17th century, and the use of Latin alphabet to write in Vietnamese is a results of colonization: "In 1910, the colonial school system adopted a "Franco-Vietnamese curriculum", which emphasized French and alphabetic Vietnamese. The teaching of Chinese characters was discontinued in 1917."), Afrikaans, swahili, bahasa (Malaysian or Indonesian), Filipino tagalog also use Latin alphabet. The diacritical stroke over the letter "a" such as in ā is also used in Māori which is the language of New Zealand original native people. "Māori had no written language, but the symbolic meanings embodied in carving, knots and weaving were widely understood." Nowadays, since it is an official language, it is written in the Latin alphabet, such as in the sentence "Kia ora tātou/kia ora koutou - Hello everyone." Sociolinguistics are so interesting!
Actually native speakers learn to speak long before they learn to read ; non native speakers usually use a transliteration…
¡Tenga un día bueno, amiga! Soy un extraterrestre del espacio profundo, con una esperanza de vida muy larga. Pero también tengo familia en China, donde mi nave espacial estuvo anclada durante mucho tiempo, por lo que el Beijinghua es uno de mis idiomas. De todos modos, tengo buenas herramientas de traducción en mi CPU para los idiomas con los que necesito ayuda. La lingüística y la geopolítica son algunos de mis intereses en el planeta azul. ¡Y ver c-drama también, por supuesto!
Her friend said," if you like someone, you want to look good in front of them" Sandals was her best shoes and…
Ok, yes of course "ever" did not mean she would stay in the hospital forever lol (but I do think she stayed throughout the night!) I don't think the dorm was near the hospital anyway, and the other girls leaving for the cinema was just before she left for the restaurant dinner date (that was clearly when she chose the sneakers). Did she stay the whole night in the hospital? Why not? Family members or close friends can do so in China, depending on local rules. It saves time for nurses who can attend to more urgent business, if a volunteer from family is willing to sit by the bedside and wait until morning when there are more staff to attend the person on the bed. Of course, it is uncomfortable, and if SZ had classes next day(s) she would need to get back to catch a wink of sleep in her own bed, but there is the complication of university dorm rules that often have a time when doors are closed and lights out. So, since all this hospital and operation business certainly lasted longer than a movie or a karaoke evening out, she might well have overstayed and have had to sit out the night in hospital. We shall see : next episode is soon. (of course, I could check the manhua too, for comparison at least ; I prefer not to read it before, so that I can enjoy guessing at what is not yet shown).
Actually native speakers learn to speak long before they learn to read ; non native speakers usually use a transliteration…
Except for what I write between "" this is my prose. Sure, from Spanish or English it is not easy. One way to reconcile with the writing part of mandarin, Hanzi, is to take it as like a crossword puzzle : writing in small squares (not to small to start with), and using all the clues (order, parts, meaning). For many foreigners it could be a life long pursuit :D So of course, you cannot be blamed if you feel old and tired to start on such daunting pursuit. But, learning some, you would have fun recognizing some characters in the Chinese subtitles of dramas .
Here is a very very easy character : 人 (a human being (rén) If you want to find the ladies' room, look for : 女 (female -nǚ) and to not enter the gents bathroom, avoid : 男 (male -nán)
The 女 pictograph is a woman kneeling (so sexist!) and 男 is a field with the ideogram for "force" underneath (because all men are laborers!) It's fun to analyze the meaning of some usual characters such as 家 Jiā (home) which is a pig under a roof, when 安 'ān (peace) is a woman under a roof...
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HL Youku Heat index has already soared to 10,000 so HL is bound to be a good one. (And no, it wouldn't be that popular if it was truly what AvX goes and rants. So although I am a fellow guqin player and Hanfu lover, I will not listen to much more of AvX almost daily chronicles on YT now. Preferring Marcus Here's shorter and well built, more factual reporting even he is not a fan of youth romances nor of ZLS. He never gets personally offensive against c-ent stars, by contrast.).
Ok that was me angrily venting against the crazies (there's another one that came to my attention). I'm done with that, and stopping my watching that chronicles "for my peace of mind" as the cobra-ish AvX sweetly expresses.
Have a nice time until tomorrow. I need to catch some sleep. It's getting late now, soon Sunday and time for me to forget that ..... reporter while enjoying Hidden Love next episode.
There is a difference between fiction and reality.
Kids in China are still the apple of the eye of most parents even after the end of the one child policy, so parents would never leave them too free, like for instance the young woman, barely of age, in The Forbidden Flower, who is monitored by a trusted maid at home, and by acquaintances even in her first years in university.
If children are too pretty they also stand the risk of being kidnapped, so there is always some monitoring them to avoid that or bullying risks.
I have family in China in Beijing, Shanghai and in a couple of booming third tier cities. Also friends, all with kids. Besides having taught i BJ both at high school (13-16 years old) and at young adult level (18-23 yrs old) in universities + in a language school too, for classes that were tailored to pass exams in view of study visas, so I have perspective on how Chinese youths from age 2 to 23 really behave....
In the early 1990s, classes were 50+ strong in a third tier city, with teacher and students very respectful and focused on studies. In the 2010s, they were 30 some and rather unruly for a part, daring to show their tiredness or lack of interest, but also, at 14-16 very childish, with some girls coming to show their love for teacher with budding artists drawings and cartoons. They were mostly in groups, with some shyness about opposite gender. At 17, they would have been very daring to up and take a plane to go to another city ; even taking a long distance bus or a high speed train alone would have felt the epitome of adventure for them. Completely unheard of for 14 years old except perhaps kids from the countryside who go to work in cities earlier, like the Yunnan youths who are pictured in the excellent drama Meet Yourself.
The way ZLS and her younger double portray SZ strikes me as very realistic.
It would be different in some other countries : I also lived in some and was interested in education there (besides being involved in other jobs and other family) . In particular, I was active in the promotion of mandarin Chinese, first through TW associations (who used bopomofo, a transliteration that was somewhat opaque to kids used to Latin alphabet), next through the Confucius institutes (who used PRC /UN pinyin), for teaching Chinese to mostly non-mandarin speaking diaspora children (of Guangdong, Fujian, other minnanhua origins, whose parents wanted them to keep some ties to their cultural roots in the face of near total acculturation) and other non-Chinese children interested in mandarin. So I also have perspective on how the youths behave elsewhere.
Nutshell: sometimes ZLS acts too cute, but not here and not that childishly.
Rosy is also my favorite C-actress, but I also love Bai Lu and Seven Tan and a handful other ones. I think HL showcases her perfectly, the trailer collection and a few BTS show her at least as lively or even happier to olay than in LLTG where she was singing and munching sweets in BTS and showing how she relaxed playing her guzheng. I feel I'm leaning towards keluli! - But let's watch ep 10 now ; it has started.
And another one : where is it published ?
Other European languages use it too, adding diacritical signs above or below, such as in French ç, î, à, Danish å, German "umlaut" ü, Czech ú, ř etc, or special letters such as œ, æ, ø.
Vietnamese too uses Latin alphabet albeit with a wealth of diacritical signs (Chinese characters were also used up till last century ; Chữ Quốc ngữ was developed on the basis of Portuguese pronunciation by missionaries in the 17th century, and the use of Latin alphabet to write in Vietnamese is a results of colonization: "In 1910, the colonial school system adopted a "Franco-Vietnamese curriculum", which emphasized French and alphabetic Vietnamese. The teaching of Chinese characters was discontinued in 1917."),
Afrikaans, swahili, bahasa (Malaysian or Indonesian), Filipino tagalog also use Latin alphabet.
The diacritical stroke over the letter "a" such as in ā is also used in Māori which is the language of New Zealand original native people. "Māori had no written language, but the symbolic meanings embodied in carving, knots and weaving were widely understood." Nowadays, since it is an official language, it is written in the Latin alphabet, such as in the sentence "Kia ora tātou/kia ora koutou - Hello everyone."
Sociolinguistics are so interesting!
Soy un extraterrestre del espacio profundo, con una esperanza de vida muy larga. Pero también tengo familia en China, donde mi nave espacial estuvo anclada durante mucho tiempo, por lo que el Beijinghua es uno de mis idiomas. De todos modos, tengo buenas herramientas de traducción en mi CPU para los idiomas con los que necesito ayuda. La lingüística y la geopolítica son algunos de mis intereses en el planeta azul. ¡Y ver c-drama también, por supuesto!
I don't think the dorm was near the hospital anyway, and the other girls leaving for the cinema was just before she left for the restaurant dinner date (that was clearly when she chose the sneakers).
Did she stay the whole night in the hospital? Why not? Family members or close friends can do so in China, depending on local rules. It saves time for nurses who can attend to more urgent business, if a volunteer from family is willing to sit by the bedside and wait until morning when there are more staff to attend the person on the bed.
Of course, it is uncomfortable, and if SZ had classes next day(s) she would need to get back to catch a wink of sleep in her own bed, but there is the complication of university dorm rules that often have a time when doors are closed and lights out. So, since all this hospital and operation business certainly lasted longer than a movie or a karaoke evening out, she might well have overstayed and have had to sit out the night in hospital.
We shall see : next episode is soon.
(of course, I could check the manhua too, for comparison at least ; I prefer not to read it before, so that I can enjoy guessing at what is not yet shown).
Sure, from Spanish or English it is not easy. One way to reconcile with the writing part of mandarin, Hanzi, is to take it as like a crossword puzzle : writing in small squares (not to small to start with), and using all the clues (order, parts, meaning). For many foreigners it could be a life long pursuit :D So of course, you cannot be blamed if you feel old and tired to start on such daunting pursuit.
But, learning some, you would have fun recognizing some characters in the Chinese subtitles of dramas .
Here is a very very easy character : 人 (a human being (rén)
If you want to find the ladies' room, look for : 女 (female -nǚ)
and to not enter the gents bathroom, avoid : 男 (male -nán)
The 女 pictograph is a woman kneeling (so sexist!) and 男 is a field with the ideogram for "force" underneath (because all men are laborers!)
It's fun to analyze the meaning of some usual characters such as 家 Jiā (home) which is a pig under a roof, when 安 'ān (peace) is a woman under a roof...