interesting words I learned to say in chinese this chapter:

厉害, terrible/severe

吵架, to quarrel

吹, to break up

打破, to break into little pieces

喝醉酒, to get drunk

憋死, to suffocate

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I guess the textbook authors got bored of being wholesome.

Chinese is an awesome language, which is going to basically destroy my soul sometime soon, but hasn't done yet. One of the more interesting...features of Chinese is the tendency to take a famous proverb, cut it down to four characters, and make that word mean the moral of the entire proverb. Obviously, these make very little sense if you don't ( Read more... )