Chinese Language Weekly Newsletter - Friday, August 29, 2014

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Top new questions this week: When to use 一倍 vs 两倍 I would like to have a clarification on this: I know that 倍 means "-times, -fold", but I don't understand why 一倍 seems to mean "twice as (fast)" in the following sentence: 开车最少比骑自行车快一倍。 while we … meaning-in-context   asked by pg-robban 5 votes answered by Caff Huang 6 votes Chinese countable/uncountable nouns (How do they work? Examples?) I recall in Mandarin class, my teacher would often discuss an idea about countable nouns. I never really understood how one would easily determine when one is faced with a countable vs uncountable … grammar word-requests measure-word   asked by Tommie C. 5 votes answered by 倪阔乐 8 votes What is written in this satellite photograph? What is written in Chinese at this location 40.449787, 116.548828 on Google maps? Tried using translators. But didn't find any feasible answer for this. translation simplified-chinese traditional-chinese   asked by Pankaj 4 votes answered by user6269 4 votes Should one write "妳好" when addressing a female? With traditional Chinese characters it is correct and proper to address a female as "妳". If I have a simple question, I think it's clear I should use the female form. 妳最近好嗎？ But to say "hello", … word-choice traditional-chinese gender   asked by Matthew Rudy 马泰 4 votes answered by LulalaBoss 6 votes 啊，诶，喔，哦：compare and contrast The characters in the title are, FWIK, all exclamatory sentence-final particles, though I'm not too sure about ei. So I was wondering what the difference was between the three. Is there a difference … particles   asked by MickG 3 votes answered by 倪阔乐 5 votes Simplified Chinese font easily readable, suitable for documents and OK for commercial use? For the English alphabet there's a site, FontSquirrel, that provides great free fonts for commercial use, handpicked and tested. I haven't found anything similar for Chinese fonts, the only very good … simplified-chinese fonts   asked by Mastro Willis 3 votes answered by Mastro Willis 1 vote How to exclude an ingredient when ordering food? I know I can order food using phrases like 我(想)要／请给我一份... But how would I exclude an ingredient, e.g. if I don't like garlic? 我要一份青椒肚片无大蒜。 我要一份青椒肚片不要大蒜。 我要一份青椒肚片没有大蒜。 Would any of those be … word-choice food negation   asked by Roman Reiner 3 votes answered by LulalaBoss 5 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: How can I get a Cantonese keyboard on an iPhone? Like Pinyin, but I need something that can recognize Cantonese instead of Mandarin. The only Chinese keyboards recognize Mandarin. cantonese topolect ime   asked by Crashalot 5 votes answered by user3992 2 votes Does 危机 really mean both crisis and opportunity? A lot of people, mostly those who haven't studied Chinese, like to claim something along the lines of "In Chinese, the word for crisis 危机, also bears the meaning of opportunity." This is usually … mandarin characters meaning phrase   asked by Lars Andren 7 votes answered by K. Shen 9 votes Can you answer these? Etymology of 至关(重要) 至关重要 strikes me as a four-character idiom instead of a Chengyu, and it didn't even make an entry on 现代汉语词典 or ZDic.net. However, that couldn't explain the fact that the specific character combination … etymology   asked by NS.X. 3 votes Sound Loans in Chinese On one comment to a recent question, LulalaBoss made reference to this article on Chinese character classification. When a character is transformed or redefined, is there a comprehensive method to … grammar language-learning   asked by Tommie C. 1 vote

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