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wentong-syhhae (50)in #cn • 6 years ago
Roast Corn, Taiwanese Style 台式烤玉米
[ Taiwanese roast corn, 7 flavor variations ] If you ever visit Taiwan, you can try roast corn in a variety of unusual flavors. The corn cobs in this particular shop (a…
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wentong-syhhae (50)in #fr • 6 years ago
French Children’s Books in Taipei Libraries / 50 livres français pour enfants à la bibliothèque municipale de Taipei / 台北市立圖書館各個分館法文兒童書
[English] Because I am retired and living on a limited budget (pension is gone), I can no longer afford to buy expensive imported children's books for my French-speaking…
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wentong-syhhae (50)in #cn • 6 years ago
“Dog” is either 狗 gǒu/goou or 犬 quǎn/cheuan. What’s the difference? 狗 et 犬: Quelle est la différence?『狗』和『犬』怎麼區別呢？（對外漢語教學：英法對照）
狗 gǒu/goou is the Modern word for “dog” (a free morpheme). 犬 quǎn/cheuan is the Classical Chinese word. En chinois moderne le caractère 狗 gǒu/goou represente le mot…
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wentong-syhhae (50)in #cn • 6 years ago
How to Say “Halloween” in Chinese (a Taiwanese holiday?) 台灣為什麼把 “Halloween” 翻成萬聖節呢？（雙語）
Halloween weekend has started. Q : what does it have to do with Chinese culture? A : “Absolutely nothing!” Teachers at bǔxíbān / buushyiban 補習班 introduced this holiday to…
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wentong-syhhae (50)in #cn • 6 years ago
Man does not live by bread alone (2) … he also needs CHOCOLATE! 人活著不是單靠麵包 (2) 巧克力也很需要啊！（雙語）
My best early memories involve simple but tasty food. My mom would often serve me bread and chocolate after school: a slice of buttered baguette with a slab of dark chocolate on…
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wentong-syhhae (50)in #cn • 6 years ago
Man does not live by bread alone … he also needs CHOCOLATE! 人活著不是單靠麵包，巧克力也很需要啊！（雙語）
Living on a budget, it is not easy to find tasty, affordable French food (#frenchfood) in Taiwan. Carrefour to the rescue! I was delighted to discover that the Shilin branch…
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wentong-syhhae (50)in #cn • 6 years ago
Jumping Spiders: a Booklover's Good Friend 跳蛛：蠹魚的天敵，愛書人的好朋友（雙語）
Because of their principal prey, in Chinese jumping spiders are sometimes called 蒼蠅老虎 cāngyíng lǎohǔ / tsangyng laohuu “[literally] housefly tigers”. [BEST TAKEDOWN…
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wentong-syhhae (50)in #cn • 6 years ago
Silverfish: a Booklover's Worst Enemy 蠹魚：愛書人的頭號敵人（雙語）
Silverfish are small insects without wings that move like fish and have bodies covered with very fine silvery scales, hence their name. They mostly eat the carbohydrates (sugar…
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wentong-syhhae (50)in #cn • 6 years ago
Chinese Idioms: Tools For Deciphering Cursive Text 成語有助於辨識國畫上面的草書（對外漢語教學）
草書外籍學生很不容易看懂 Even if you have studied Chinese for several years, figuring out the cursive inscriptions on Chinese paintings can be intimidating. 本文教外籍學生如何根據國學常識和上下文辨認草書。This…
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wentong-syhhae (50)in #cn • 6 years ago
GR Tonal Spelling: Who’s Who (Taiwan Higher Education-1) 國羅名人錄：台灣學界（一）
Names that SOUND different should LOOK different! 因漢語拼音不標調產生的假同姓問題，其實拼調式拼音（國羅）90年前就分清楚了。 When Chinese people travel abroad, they often encounter name problems (false homonyms)…
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wentong-syhhae (50)in #cn • 6 years ago
mung beans are NOT “green” beans 綠豆並非 “green” beans
In hot weather, Chinese people enjoy eating refreshing cool bowls of 綠豆湯 lǜdòu tāng / liuhdow tang [literally] “green bean soup”, which is actually mung beans served in…
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wentong-syhhae (50)in #science • 6 years ago
How Foxes Were Domesticated 馴狐記（雙語）
Dmitry Belyaev selected & bred the least timid foxes. Decades later, they had become doglike: floppy ears, curly tails, playfulness, whimpering and a host of other physiological…
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wentong-syhhae (50)in #cn • 6 years ago
Tsunami in Indonesia 印尼海嘯 Yìnní Hǎixiào/Yinn’ni Haeshiaw
28 Sep 2018: Sulawesi hit by an earthquake and tsunami. 1400+ people in and near Palu died. 2018年9月28日，蘇拉威西島遭遇了7.5級地震和高達6米的海嘯，在省城Palu造成1400多人死亡。 Half a century ago, the…
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wentong-syhhae (50)in #cn • 6 years ago
Cheuan Deng 犬燈 “The Dog Lantern”, a 狐狸精 fox spirit story from the 聊齋志異 Liaujai Jyhyih, by 蒲松齡 Pwu Songling
Chinese folklore abounds in tales of fox spirits who seduce men by shapeshifting into beautiful women. Japan and Korea have their own variants of such tales. Japanese Fox…
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wentong-syhhae (50)in #cn • 6 years ago
Chinese Fox idioms-2 兔死狐悲 When the Hare Dies, the Fox Grieves, tù sǐ hú bēi / tuh syy hwu bei
Discussion While it seems like “shedding crocodile tears”, this idiom refers to true sadness: the death of a hare refers to sense of unease and deep sadness (based on a…
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wentong-syhhae (50)in #cn • 6 years ago
Chinese Fox idioms-1 狐假虎威 Fox Borrows Tiger’s Majesty hú jiǎ hǔ wēi / hwu jea huu uei
When a tiger was about to eat a fox he had caught, the clever canid said that this was forbidden because he had received the Mandate of Heaven to rule over all the denizens of…
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wentong-syhhae (50)in #cn • 6 years ago
Four Kinds of Foxes 四種狐狸 (雙語）
Red Fox The scientific name of the red fox, Vulpes vulpes (“fox fox” in Latin), is a reminder that this is the most common of all foxes. Its omnivorous appetite and ability…
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wentong-syhhae (50)in #cn • 6 years ago
Foreign Loans in Mandarin Borrowed Through Shanghainese 現代漢語的上海外來語（話為什麼這麼說？）
Words such as 巧克力 qiǎokèlì / cheaukehlih are easy to recognize and remember. But what about “weird” loans such as 沙發 shāfā / shafa and 派對 pàiduì / payduey …
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wentong-syhhae (50)in #cn • 6 years ago
A Tasty “Eggsperiment” 蜀味蛋（中英文）
Eating hardboiled eggs every day for breakfast can be quite boring, so I have experimented with a dab or two of Sichuan chili paste (produced in Taiwan) on each egg to make a…
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wentong-syhhae (50)in #money • 6 years ago
Dogonomics - Udemy Course (Free until Sep. 11th) 咦！狗狗也可以幫我們上經濟學
This dog-oriented course covers many economics topics: Brexit, demand, supply, elasticity, types of competition, small firms, micro-economic policy, macro-economic policy…
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