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[joechan521]

What's 加油? is the first character from can jia?

see people in normal SL, there are about 20 people from my school just like me that you can do better than xD

you say加油to someone when they are gonna do something challenging and 加油is to pump them up, it substitutes saying goodluck to someone.
for example u say to some1 good luck for the exams, would be考试加油.
how ever 加油does not mean good luck, it means like make an extra effort, or get pumped up, and it is a very frequently and commonly used word. In sport events we shout 加油 which means go.

i was in SLA, but my chinese is like first language, my teacher said i was lucky to be in SLA, i should go to FL, but i just missed half year in doing esl>.<

[cara.mel]

I only started learning chinese in year 7.
If I'd had known a few years ago that how well I'd do in vce chinese does not correlate to where I stand within my school, then I probably would have dropped it long ago.
Like it's probably going to be my 7th subject, and to do any better either I'd have to bomb out on another subject this year (which I didn't), or it'd have to beat I think ~46.8 after scaling xD There's no way I can get high 30s raw xD

[ninwa]

There's no way I can get high 30s raw xD

.... I think you could :?

Just because you're competing against native speakers doesn't necessarily mean you're gonna get pushed down by them .... cos if they're anything like me, they'd be used to speaking the more slangy or casual kind of Chinese which isn't gonna get them marks in the exam .... like I've seen the work you guys do and I'd be like, hey, I never knew that's how you're meant to say blah blah blah

Don't give up! 加油 indeed ^^

[cara.mel]

But they don't miss 1/4 of the listening section, because they don't have the problem of hearing where the answer is, but having no idea what it means and can't find it in the dictionary. eg Q: what do they want to bring, I hear "wo men yao dai lai agjhrgkjsdgjk" and I feel like headdesking in frustration

Anyway, this is a nice place to ask questions
1. Context is person wanting to buy presents for people when he goes to china. One of the things he is going to bring I heard as 'dai shi ping'. In dictionary I found 'dai shu' = kangaroo which is v aussie, but I can't find the last character. I don't think he'd be bringing a live kangaroo over =/
2. Same passage. A place where you can buy things. 'mian shui jian'. Dictionary absolutely no help on this one
3. What is a 'lu xing dai' Something to do with traveling I assume
4. How do you write a) Xi ni, b) Xin xi lan (nz). I've discovered my dictionary doesn't have places in it and I don't think I will try writing them in somewhere =/
In that one, there were other things I didn't hear at all, not even when I cheated and played the passage a few more times XD

[ninwa]

Anyway, this is a nice place to ask questions
1. Context is person wanting to buy presents for people when he goes to china. One of the things he is going to bring I heard as 'dai shi ping'. In dictionary I found 'dai shu' = kangaroo which is v aussie, but I can't find the last character. I don't think he'd be bringing a live kangaroo over =/
2. Same passage. A place where you can buy things. 'mian shui jian'. Dictionary absolutely no help on this one
3. What is a 'lu xing dai' Something to do with traveling I assume
4. How do you write a) Xi ni, b) Xin xi lan (nz). I've discovered my dictionary doesn't have places in it and I don't think I will try writing them in somewhere =/
In that one, there were other things I didn't hear at all, not even when I cheated and played the passage a few more times XD

1. "dai shi ping" is "bring 10 bottles" of something - that's how I see it :? lol at kangaroos ^^
2. have no idea - need tone marks for this one plz mel lol - right now I see it as noodles water pick up =\
3. I THINK is luggage or something .... not sure tho. need tone marks!!
4. I don't have characters on my laptop ... or at least I don't THINK I do ... so .... www.freetranslation.com

LOL I cheat with german HV too which is really bad

[cara.mel]

Nina I can barely pick up the pin yin (I doubt they're 100% right), let alone tone marks

[kingmar]

But they don't miss 1/4 of the listening section, because they don't have the problem of hearing where the answer is, but having no idea what it means and can't find it in the dictionary. eg Q: what do they want to bring, I hear "wo men yao dai lai agjhrgkjsdgjk" and I feel like headdesking in frustration

Anyway, this is a nice place to ask questions
1. Context is person wanting to buy presents for people when he goes to china. One of the things he is going to bring I heard as 'dai shi ping'. In dictionary I found 'dai shu' = kangaroo which is v aussie, but I can't find the last character. I don't think he'd be bringing a live kangaroo over =/
2. Same passage. A place where you can buy things. 'mian shui jian'. Dictionary absolutely no help on this one
3. What is a 'lu xing dai' Something to do with traveling I assume
4. How do you write a) Xi ni, b) Xin xi lan (nz). I've discovered my dictionary doesn't have places in it and I don't think I will try writing them in somewhere =/
In that one, there were other things I didn't hear at all, not even when I cheated and played the passage a few more times XD

Maybe I'm not that bad. I've included tones.

1. Dai shi ping means bring ten bottles of something. (4th tone, 2nd tone, 2nd tone)
2. Mian shui (3rd tone then 4th tone) means No-tax, or duty-free. So a "mian shui jian" I would assume refers to a duty-free shop at an airport, which should make sense considering he's going to China.
3. "lu xing dai" is means luggage (3rd dot tone, 2nd tone, 4th tone)
4. "Xi Ni" means Sydney. It's 悉尼。 "Xin Xi Lan" is 新西兰， I think.

[joechan521]

yep, upper level got everything correct

[cara.mel]

At school today, someone said that last year they looked at the names in the paper of people who got 40+. They said there were 3 non-asian names there.

I'm stuffed ^_^

[Toothpaste]

At school today, someone said that last year they looked at the names in the paper of people who got 40+. They said there were 3 non-asian names there.

I'm stuffed ^_^

NO! You're not! Don't give up!

<3

[ninwa]

awwww mel! don't think like that! maybe this year will be different. or maybe you'll end up as one of those non-asian names

don't give up *hugs*

[kingmar]

According to VCAA, 20% of girls get A+. 12% of boys do.

Statistics don't lie! (drat.)

[golids]

At school today, someone said that last year they looked at the names in the paper of people who got 40+. They said there were 3 non-asian names there.

I'm stuffed ^_^

NO! You're not! Don't give up!

<3

ditto, if you pull a 35 that is a sweet 45 still  

[kido_1]

Agreed. Chinese SL scales very well. Actually I regret not studying Chinese in Year 7.

[kingmar]

I didn't do it from Year 7 - 10.

I only chose Chinese this year because it
A) scales so fantastically
B) Less effort to get a 40 than spesh
C) Why learn a new language (jap) when you can revise an old one?

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