Daily Chinese Proverb: Truth

Posted by Charlie @ Discovering Mandarin Tuesday, 4 August 2009 0 comments
"Tell the truth"实话实说shí huà shí shuō / shi2 hua4 shi2 sho1Photo Source:Flickr:ol...

New Phrase: Quite Big

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Ok so today as promised I said I would place here what I felt I had learnt through my Mandarin studying today.I came across a phrase in Rosetta Stone that I hadn't before and had to google to understand it.很大 (hěn dà)quite bigThis would be used to describe the size of something after you had said the item, for example;这个鸟蛋很大zhè gè niǎo dàn hěn dàThis egg is quite big.鸟 (niǎo) actually means bird (something else I have just found out. :)....

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