Mandarin I Berkeley Extension

425 Market Street San Francisco, CA Professor: Virginia Mau

Class 12

Nov. 29, 2011

Mandarin II

is now available for enrollment. I know because I just enrolled 12/5/2011. Monday nights at 6:30, starting Jan. 20. Same price, same floor, same building.

nai4 you3 ne = what else? (would you like, did you buy, etc.)

nai4 = how can one help (Mandarintools.com) but, how; bear, stand, endure (Chinese Text Project) (Lots of talking with no characters which perhaps I will transcribe someday...)

jiu4 = only

duo1 jiu3 = how long?

sn mng zh = sandwich

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hn bo bo = hamburger

tai4 gui4 le = its too expensive This is the same that is in married woman or Mrs. or, literally, extremely extremely (a euphemism for a womans breasts). Or too too. Interesting that a tutu is what ballerinas wear: women who represent the ultimate in femininity. And now maybe we understand why the English word too has two Os: because those Os epitomize breasts. A womans breasts engorged with milk represents the pinnacle in extremes. If we look at common English words that have two Ts: taut, tight, tit, teat, and tote: all consistent with engorged breasts. In French tte means
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head, which is something that sticks out. Keep in mind that Im talking general concepts here because I want to encompass all 5,000 years of written record, before so many ideas were around and people were less specific with sound. But when you consider that the Grand Tetons and the dot on the letter i, also known as a tittle (the dot on a j as well), share breast characterstics, it seems clear that womens body parts have had an impact on language. The word title is a good illustration. You almost have to have writing to have elaborate titles. Peoples titles got longer as writing progressed. You can see this with the Ancient Egyptians. Their cartouches, which recorded the names of the kings, started as circles1 and then go more oblong as the kings added more titles. A title is the first element of an official name. Mr. Mrs. Ms. Dr. We all have titles that give us legitimacy. What enters first into the room when a woman walks through the door? Her breasts. Just like a title is the first part of a name. This reminds me of a joke that my husband told about a co-worker when the co-worker hired his secretary: He made her put her hands on her shoulders so that her elbows stuck out in front of hermy husband would mime this part and then walk toward the wall. If her elbows hit the wall first, she wasnt qualified. (Rimshot.) $1 10 1

bi4

= currency, coins, legal tender

You can say 13.95 for price (as I should have on my menu).

qu4 = go away, leave, depart (CTP), to go; to leave; to remove (MT.com) I thought of this character originally as a grave, but the Seal Script, etc. looks like birth. This almost implies that women were writing language because if youre saying go, its to an entity that is in you. Whereas from a mans perspective, its more like separation or division. Depart. Of part. De is everywhere in our language, even when its not perceived as Latin. Go seems more like an order. Depart seems more sorrowful. And leave might come from leaf, which falls from a tree when it dies.

kuai4

mao2

fen1

(oral only) (written only)

yuan2

jiao3

fen1

ren2 min2 bi = the official currency of the Peoples Republic of China, i.e., legal tender yuan

Means Go, go, go! and sounds like chew, chew, chew.

is the same as

Renminbi (RMB)

min2

you2 yong3 = swimming

= people, subjects, citizens

you2 = swim; float, drift; wander, roam

1 According to Sir Alan Gardiner in Egyptian Grammar, page 74: ...the loop should be round, as it is in one or two very early examples, but becomes elongated and oval because of the length of most hieroglyphic names enclosed in it. The Egyptians called the cartouche...encircle. Page 2
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yong3 = swimming; to swim

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you2 shui3 = swimming

de shi2 hou4 = when; during; at the time of

you2 shui xia4 = free swimming shrimp (Recall that means under, underneath, below; down; inferior; bring down, and if you think about it, you will recall that shrimp means small.)

zen3 me qu4? = How to remove (?) How will you go (?)

mei2 you3 ren2 = nobody

le = (character that English doesnt have) making action or judgement statement

or

qu4 you2 yong3 zen ma = Do you want to go swimming?

qing3 zai4 shuo1 yi1 bian4 = Please repeat what you said.

qu4 or qu4 bu4 qu4 = Go or not go

bian4 = a time; everywhere; turn; all over; one time

yong3 yi4 = swimsuit, bathing suit

da3 = hit

ku4 = drawers; trousers; pants

tan2 = play

jing ju = (bei)jing opera

ti1 = kick

lian3 = face

bian4 = to change; to become different; to transform; to vary; rebellion

hua2 = slide, slip

xue3 = snow Chinese characters and definitions from: http://ctext.org/dictionary http://www.mandarintools.com/ http://www.google.translate http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/8586/ http://www.pleco.com/ http://talaqa.com/chinese/chinese-english-dictionary http://lingua.mtsu.edu/chinese-computing/statistics/char/list.php?Which=MObian4 = a time; everywhere; turn; all over; one time
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dui4 bu qui3 = apologize (dont get up, stay calm) Im sorry; pardon me; forgive me

bu4 hao3 yi4 si = didnt mean to, feel embarrassed; be ill at ease; find it embarrassing (to do sth)

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