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Posted at Wed Apr 21 13:59:34 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/452165 http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/452165 chino Wed Apr 21 13:59:34 UTC 2010
It has been a while since I wrote my last journal. I've been up to my paper, which is about euphemism in English. Euphemism is widely applied in daily life and social life. The word “euphemism” comes from “Greek”, “eu” means “good” or “well”, the root “pheme” means “saying” or “speech”, and “ism” is a noun suffix. According to Oxford English Dictionary (OED), euphemism is “that figure of speech which consists in the substitution of a word or expression of comparatively favorable implication or less unpleasant associations, instead of the harsher or more offensive one that would more precisely designate what is intended”. Such as “The Maker”, “Gosh” and “Our Father” are all euphemisms for “God”.
Generally speaking, there are two kinds of Euphemisms: Negative euphemism and Positive euphemism. Negative euphemism rang between “death, excretion, bodily functions, religious matters, and sex”. For example, “to go to sleep forever, to go to heaven, to be under daisies ” are all euphemisms for “die ”.And we can see from them that euphemism is closely related to culture, especially the religion. Positive euphemism is common in those fields such as occupation, education, politics, and military affairs and so on. For example, “beauticain” is euphemism for “barber” and “intoxicate” for “drunk” .
My paper aims to study the gender differences on the euphemism usage in “Friends”. By comparing the frequency of euphemism usage , the gender differences on language are getting smaller with the development of society. Also,to have better intercultural communication, the semantic and pragmatic problems in cross-culture and the approach to avoiding them are presented.
Do you know any euphemism in your native language? Can you give some examples? Thank you in advance:D

Posted at Sat Apr 10 09:13:13 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/439402 http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/439402 chino Sat Apr 10 09:13:13 UTC 2010 My German exam is approaching. I think it's hard to memorize every German words' part of speech :P Because there is no rules or clues for their part of speech. Please help me if you have some good methods. Thank you:D

Posted at Tue Dec 29 12:47:56 UTC 2009
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/324498 http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/324498 chino Tue Dec 29 12:47:56 UTC 2009


Dear friends in Lang-8,

Hello, What's your favourite food? This time I'd like to introduce a very very hooooooot food to you.
Many people think that China is famous for not only it's long history but also it's delicious and various food. Since I'm from HuNan, I'd like to talk more about the HuNan speciality- "Hot Pot". The first response of people from other provinces will be "you must like hot food" when they hear " I'm from HuNan". Indeed, most of HuNanese are good with hot food. When it's getting cold, we prefer to have "Hot Pot" with friends or families. Even when it's hot, we'd like to take spicy food in air-conditioning room. We always enjoy it very much. Here are some photos taken by me, I hope you will enjoy them:D

Posted at Fri Dec 11 05:35:32 UTC 2009
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/309074 http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/309074 chino Fri Dec 11 05:35:32 UTC 2009


Hey my dear friends in Lang-8,

What's your favourite music？This time I would like to introduce some famous Chinese campus ballads . By the way, if you are laerning Chinese and you can sing Chinese campus ballads, you'll be more popular among Chinese.

"Childhood"(童年)sung by Luo Da you created a big influence on both the campus and society. http://www.kupig.cn/html/473/

"No Regret for My Youth",（青春无悔）sung by Lao Lang and Ye Pei. It's a typical song of the campus ballad style, whose strongholds are China's university dormitories, and whose lyrics are sentimental in outlook.

"My Desk Mate"(同桌的你) sung by Lao Lang became extremely popular in China.It can always remind you the precious time in school and what happened between you and your desk mate. http://www.kupig.cn/html/624/

Ye Pei's most famous songs, the naive but beautiful "White Dress Dancing". (白衣飘飘的年代)
Pu shu: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" (那些花儿), "forest birch"(白桦林) These songs had soft and gentle melodies that left listeners with a leisurely and fresh mood. They caused a strong sympathetic response among university students.


Posted at Mon Nov 30 07:08:58 UTC 2009
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/298912 http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/298912 chino Mon Nov 30 07:08:58 UTC 2009
In the hero park, we took a Chinese -style boat to enjoy magnificent scenery. At the same time, we discussed a lot about the National Entrance Examination in china. The final score in the exam probably will determine our future life. Though it’s unreasonable, we have no choice but to accept it. Since no one can figure out any other better educational system. While in the Netherlands, it’s quite free for senior students to choose college, which is very different with that in China.

Besides, he told us that people don’t want to be teachers because the salary is not high enough in the Netherlands. It was a shock to me. In China, if a girl becomes a teacher, others would think it’s very good. To be a teacher means stability and guarantee, especially for girls. Also, the relationship between teachers and students are alienated than that in China because of power distance.

What impressed me most is that he can speak six languaes, Dutch, Lantin, Greek, German,English and Hebrew. Though almost every Chinese college student can speak 3 languages, Mandarin, English and a regional dialect. Hehe, I'm kidding:D


Posted at Thu Nov 19 06:51:22 UTC 2009
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/287900 http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/287900 chino Thu Nov 19 06:51:22 UTC 2009 Ich bin Lola. Mein Familienname ist Luo, Vorname ist Fenfen. Ich Komme aus China. Mein Heimatstadt ist Yiyang, Hunan. Ich lebe in Changsha. Ich bin Studentin. Ich studiere Englisch. Ich fine Englisch interssant.

Posted at Wed Nov 18 10:43:25 UTC 2009
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/286977 http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/286977 chino Wed Nov 18 10:43:25 UTC 2009 Hey dear friends in Lang-8,

I want to share this article with all of you. Enjoy it!

Some people come to our lives and quickly go.

Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom.

Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for a while, leave footprints on our hearts and we are never the same.

What kind of people do you belong to?

Posted at Tue Nov 17 04:55:45 UTC 2009
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/285828 http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/285828 chino Tue Nov 17 04:55:45 UTC 2009
How are you doing?It's been a while since I wrote a journal last time.This time I wonder if you have some special experiences caused by cultural differences between your country and the other. They may be funny or embarrasing. However, they made you better understand the cultural differences. I hope all of you can share them with me. Thank you very much:)

yours sincerely,
Chino

Posted at Sun Oct 25 05:34:49 UTC 2009
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/267008 http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/267008 chino Sun Oct 25 05:34:49 UTC 2009
The Orange Isle Music Festival in Changsha started from 16:00 yesterday .when I arrived in the Orange Isle, it was 18:00. There were about 3 kilometers away from the entrance and stage. Since it was the first time I went there, I was not familiar with it and i had to walked alone. I kept walking and walking without knowing how far from my destination. Fortunately, perseverance prevails. I reached there after 40 minutes and I found my classmate smoothly. The show has alredy begun. Several rock band had excting and passionate performance. As time moveed by, the specutators were in higher spirit.They shouted, jumped and sung crazily.The drum Every time the drum hit, it was like hitting upon my heart. At that time, I strongly felt the magic of rock'n roll.It combined srangers together forthe same interest and it represented the young people's attitudes towards life.


Posted at Sat Sep 26 12:48:24 UTC 2009
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/244832 http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/244832 chino Sat Sep 26 12:48:24 UTC 2009 This is regareded as the Chinese version of Facebook. If you wanna improve your Chinese proficiency, this is a good way to learn various life of Chinese,especially the students. You have to sign in it by e-mail address firstly. Hope you make more Chinese friends:)
the following is my homepage in www.renren.com
http://home.renren.com/Home.do?id=238988446&_request_from=73

Posted at Thu Sep 24 12:52:49 UTC 2009
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/243511 http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/243511 chino Thu Sep 24 12:52:49 UTC 2009



The ceremony of the 8th “Chinese Bridge” Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College has been on live on Thursday night.! I was very excited and proud to seeing so many foreign friends gather in Changsha,Hunan. the Theme is "Fun with Chinese, Hope of Success". and preliminaries has been held in 60 countries,about 80 areas all over the world. They are all crazy about Chinese diverse culture and they performed lots of Chinese traditional patterns such as songs, music, dance, folk arts, acrobatics, musical instruments, calligraphy, painting, paper-cuttings and kungfu. Some of their performing are so perfect and amazing that I can't help admiring them:) If only I can make friends with them and do what I can!

汉语桥 主题曲
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/GnBPL-xJU-s/

美丽的文字
一笔一画像
飞檐走壁的轻功
不同的语种
只要用心懂
一定会乐在其中
中国的汉语桥
传承了几千年的骄傲
新的曙光
世界的汉语桥
要和全世界一起加油
携手微笑

大漠起孤烟
长河落日圆(京剧)

一起拥抱风
不同颜色皮肤
有着同一样的梦
一起牵着手
你友好的笑容
给我一路上感动
中国的汉语桥
传承了几千年的骄傲
新的曙光
世界的汉语桥
要和全世界一起加油
携手微笑


Posted at Sat Jul 18 05:17:25 UTC 2009
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/194656 http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/194656 chino Sat Jul 18 05:17:25 UTC 2009 http://www.easymandarinchinese.com

http://www.chinese-tools.com

http://chinesepod.com

I have checked both and found that they are very useful for Manderin learning. Hope they'll help.

Posted at Fri Jul 03 03:34:42 UTC 2009
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/184630 http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/184630 chino Fri Jul 03 03:34:42 UTC 2009 What will you do when you say goodbye to a friend who possiblely
you will never see again?

You will just say Goodbye and go away, or hug each other? In
China, we are not used to hug friends when they leave, especially
between opposite-sex friends.

Yesterday a foriengn friend met me for the last time because he was
about to back to his country in a month. When he asked:"what will you do when you say goodbye to someone?" I said without hesitation:"Just say goodbye." I wonder whether it was appropriate.
Different ways of saying goodbye varies in different countries I think.

What will you do when you say goodbye to a opposite-sex friend
who possiblely you will never see again?

Posted at Thu Jul 02 14:11:34 UTC 2009
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/184272 http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/184272 chino Thu Jul 02 14:11:34 UTC 2009 to say, just I do not have the time. I have finished my exams on
June,25. I thought many students would stay st school to do
part-time job. But the fact is it's hard for us to find a satisfying job. For most of us, a job associated with English is the best choice.
Unfortunately, we can not find jobs like that. Most of the jobs for
university students are delivering publicity papers or selling goods,
which I am unwilling to do. Delivering papers is a waste of time.
Besides, I can not stand that standing there waiting for unknown
customers. Looks like I can not find a good one.

Posted at Tue Jun 30 05:27:15 UTC 2009
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/182566 http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/182566 chino Tue Jun 30 05:27:15 UTC 2009 Should we give beggars money?
In my perspective,I don't think we should give beggars money.

Firstly,I doubt whether all beggars are real ones.As far as I know,some
beggars are very rich.Their begging is a means of deceipt our
sympathy and money.

Secondly,they need to support themselves in a decent way.namely,
earn money by hard work or some skills.If they sing or play guitar,it is acceptable. While,if we give money everytime we met a beggar,it will
not do any help for them,on the contrary,it'll encourage increasingly
people to become beggars.

Finally,I don't think we should give beggars money.It doesnt mean i am pathetic or something like that.Even if we can help one or two,how about the rest hundreds of them?

What's your opinion?

Posted at Tue Jun 09 08:01:49 UTC 2009
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/168110 http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/168110 chino Tue Jun 09 08:01:49 UTC 2009 I find that the most obvious difference between this website and
Myspace is that the purposes for members of Lang-8 are pure and
simple , just language-learning,while for Myspace loggers the
purposes are more various and complicated. In Lang-8,this is more
like dot-to-dot communication because we can help each other
at least in one aspect, However, in Myspace,though personal informations are more detailed,we still can hardly find any common interests,
thus making distance further.


Do you have any ideas about this topic?
Your corrections and opinions will be highly apprieciated:D

Posted at Sun Jun 07 05:51:13 UTC 2009
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/166514 http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/166514 chino Sun Jun 07 05:51:13 UTC 2009 insomnia.More than that,I was late for the first class next morning:(
What's the reason? A new but unneccessary tooth was growing up,
(maybe it was called "the wisdom tooth",i'm not sure)
causing my 牙龈发炎红肿. In the following days, I had no choice but to
take cake and porridge.Ohhh,poor girl... I'm starving:(

Posted at Sat Jun 06 14:29:41 UTC 2009
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/166085 http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/166085 chino Sat Jun 06 14:29:41 UTC 2009 insomnia.More than that,I was late for the first class next morning:(
What's the reason? A new but unneccessary tooth was growing up,
(maybe it was called "the wisdom tooth",i'm not sure)
causing my 牙龈发炎红肿. In the following days, I had no choice but to
take cake and porridge.Ohhh,poor girl... I'm starving:(

Posted at Sat Jun 06 14:29:40 UTC 2009
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/166084 http://www.lang-8.com/55648/journals/166084 chino Sat Jun 06 14:29:40 UTC 2009