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Post by RAZ on Jul 19, 2021 19:31:03 GMT
I am just starting a Mandarin course. So difficult to get the tones correct. There are 4 tones and a neutral tone. If you say a word in the wrong tone, it means something totally different! This should be interesting. get in lad! when i was in china back in 2015 and stayed for almost 2 months, i wanted to learn as much as i could. because not a lot of people speak english there and everyone is so much friendlier and more helpful if you at least try to speak their language. i loved learning it while i stayed there but damn, its so hard and confusing. i suppose you start by simply speaking without typing it right? even harder to actually type it from what i gathered.
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Post by Bestie on Jul 19, 2021 23:35:19 GMT
I am just starting a Mandarin course. So difficult to get the tones correct. There are 4 tones and a neutral tone. If you say a word in the wrong tone, it means something totally different! This should be interesting. Why? The missus? Brilliant effort regardless of reason mate. Huge to learn a new language. Wish I had stuck with Italian a few years ago when I was basic conversation level.
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Post by king nothing on Jul 20, 2021 3:21:53 GMT
I am just starting a Mandarin course. So difficult to get the tones correct. There are 4 tones and a neutral tone. If you say a word in the wrong tone, it means something totally different! This should be interesting. Why? The missus? Brilliant effort regardless of reason mate. Huge to learn a new language. Wish I had stuck with Italian a few years ago when I was basic conversation level. Yeah, pretty much. Her English is excellent but I would like to at least make the effort to speak her native language! Totally different, but whenever I go abroad to a different culture, I always try to learn a few phrases. All the design team on the project I am working on are Italian. It's great listening to them speak. Such an expressive language. Maybe give it another shot?
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Post by king nothing on Jul 20, 2021 3:29:50 GMT
I am just starting a Mandarin course. So difficult to get the tones correct. There are 4 tones and a neutral tone. If you say a word in the wrong tone, it means something totally different! This should be interesting. get in lad! when i was in china back in 2015 and stayed for almost 2 months, i wanted to learn as much as i could. because not a lot of people speak english there and everyone is so much friendlier and more helpful if you at least try to speak their language. i loved learning it while i stayed there but damn, its so hard and confusing. i suppose you start by simply speaking without typing it right? even harder to actually type it from what i gathered. Learning the written characters is a totally different ball game. They do have pinyin, which is the equivalent of the alphabet. But it's the tones. So difficult 😫 She is taking a degree in finance/mortgage and passing it. She has never worked in that field and is doing it in a second language, so I definitely need to up my game 😄
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Post by Bestie on Jul 20, 2021 8:31:38 GMT
Why? The missus? Brilliant effort regardless of reason mate. Huge to learn a new language. Wish I had stuck with Italian a few years ago when I was basic conversation level. Yeah, pretty much. Her English is excellent but I would like to at least make the effort to speak her native language! Totally different, but whenever I go abroad to a different culture, I always try to learn a few phrases. All the design team on the project I am working on are Italian. It's great listening to them speak. Such an expressive language. Maybe give it another shot? Good on you. Lovely gesture, plus you can both be total shits with your English language-only friends when you are good enough to have inside jokes in Mandarin. The reason I love Italian because of its expressiveness. It's one of those things that's always in the back of my mind to go back to. I think I haven't made more of an effort because it has reminds me of a woman!?
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Post by Reduntildeath on Jul 20, 2021 11:01:06 GMT
Jeff Bezos off to space later today-like you do-with three other passengers ,AND NO PILOT on board. Crikey!
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Post by Reduntildeath on Jul 27, 2021 19:02:58 GMT
Don’t know if many have followed the current political repression in Hong Kong, but Channel 4 News in UK have just shown a disturbing report re China’s revamped ‘Security’ Laws (2020), fresh from closing down Apple Daily News and imprisoning the publisher Jimmy Lai since last December, a motorcyclist ,who was protesting by displaying a large flag and rode into a group of police and was stopped has now been found guilty after a trial lasting five weeks, and faces life imprisonment. The ‘trial’ judges were hand picked by the mainland and the Hong Kong Chief Executive. The Chinese authorities have now arrested five speech therapists for writing a children’s book deemed to be against the party. They’ve also rounded up other journalists and ‘opposition’ politicians etc also deemed to represent a threat to the communist party. All contrary to the ‘One Country Two Systems’ protocol as agreed by UK and China in 1997. All in full view of the world’s media. Dreadful. Rant over!
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Post by Reduntildeath on Jul 31, 2021 11:46:30 GMT
Quick heads-up to y’all. Just got a text from ‘Hermes’ regarding a ‘missed delivery ‘ this morning, including a helpful link to click into, clearly a scam. Fuckers!
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Post by Kojak on Jul 31, 2021 13:26:37 GMT
Quick heads-up to y’all. Just got a text from ‘Hermes’ regarding a ‘missed delivery ‘ this morning, including a helpful link to click into, clearly a scam. Fuckers! Had a few of these from Hermes and Royal Mail. If the text is actually from Hermes or Royal Mail, then it will show as from them when you receive it. The scam ones send from a random mobile number. Also, the grammar is atrocious. One of mine said “we has got your parcel”. I had a look at the Royal Mail link out of curiosity. Looked absolutely identical to their actual website, except none of the links work. You can see how people fall for it.
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Post by Reduntildeath on Jul 31, 2021 13:41:08 GMT
Quick heads-up to y’all. Just got a text from ‘Hermes’ regarding a ‘missed delivery ‘ this morning, including a helpful link to click into, clearly a scam. Fuckers! Had a few of these from Hermes and Royal Mail. If the text is actually from Hermes or Royal Mail, then it will show as from them when you receive it. The scam ones send from a random mobile number. Also, the grammar is atrocious. One of mine said “we has got your parcel”. I had a look at the Royal Mail link out of curiosity. Looked absolutely identical to their actual website, except none of the links work. You can see how people fall for it. First one I’ve had from ‘Hermes’ and yes, the messages from ‘Royal Mail’ look really authentic, especially if your eyesight’s a bit dodgy! The world is going to shite!
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Post by Reduntildeath on Aug 4, 2021 10:34:36 GMT
After first seeing my consultant in November 2019 ,just before Covid reared its ugly head in UK, I’ve Finally got an admission date for my spinal jabs, Friday 13th. No pressure Mr Neurosurgeon!
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Post by Chris on Aug 4, 2021 11:14:03 GMT
Just found out a lad I've known since we were 5 has passed away. Why is life so fucking shit? I'm devastated. Rumours are that he's taken his own life.
Fucking talk to someone if you feel this way people, please.
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Post by king nothing on Aug 4, 2021 12:41:18 GMT
Just found out a lad I've known since we were 5 has passed away. Why is life so fucking shit? I'm devastated. Rumours are that he's taken his own life. Fucking talk to someone if you feel this way people, please. Shit man,sorry to hear about your friend. I've had 5 mates take their own life over the years. One of them was my best mate. Fucking gutted for you.
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Post by Chris on Aug 4, 2021 12:42:24 GMT
Just found out a lad I've known since we were 5 has passed away. Why is life so fucking shit? I'm devastated. Rumours are that he's taken his own life. Fucking talk to someone if you feel this way people, please. Shit man,sorry to hear about your friend. I've had 5 mates take there own life over the years. One of them was my best mate. Fucking gutted for you. Ah mate, that's awful. Sorry to hear that.
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Post by king nothing on Aug 4, 2021 12:48:20 GMT
They were all great lads, very outgoing. Totally shock for each of them. Typical blokes, bottle shit up and feel there is no way out. I was only 17 when John died. Had the world at his feet at 18. Was going to take over the family business, just passed his driving test, great looking lad as well (not like me, ugly mofo!!) I was devastated. Carrying his coffin was by far and away the most difficult thing I've ever done.
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