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Senior Joined: Feb 26, 2010 Posts: 35

Thanks for the post. It seems that bloodsucker has spent a lot of time for learning Chinese vocab by giving us a lot of Chinese to combine with " che". The arrangement of Chinese words in sentence somehow is similar to Vietnamese but in phrase is different not only in the word " che " but also in many others.

By the way, bloodsucker mentioned to a lot of words come with "rou "such as zhurou 猪肉 (thịt heo)，niurou 牛肉 (thịt bò)，jirou 鸡肉(thịt gà)，yangrou 羊肉(thịt dê)，yurou鱼肉 (thịt cá)，。。I want to add an very interesting word with "rou" that " wu hoa rou"( thịt ba chỉ ).

Expert Joined: Jan 21, 2010 Posts: 82

Many, many thanks to the post of the author and especially bloodsucker's. Just the simple word "车", when it goes together with "火", it turns to a "train". Interesting, isn't it ? Chinese language sometimes is very very friendly and effortless to study. You just possess an immediate level of imagination and a joking, funny mind, you can remember its "sinuous" words forever.

When I read this post, my love for Vietnamese increases more and more. Since in Vietnamese, there are also hundreds of "exotic" and very "Vietnamese" words like: xe ôm, xe ba gác, xe hủ lô, xe hàng, xe lớn (it does not mean to differ from "xe nhỏ" since in Vietnam, no thing is "xe nhỏ",) xe xích lô máy, xe lam, ... These words, I bet there are no sufficiently equivalent words which can completely and thoroughly convey their meaning. Wink

Senior Joined: Sep 16, 2008 Posts: 31

This topic is really interesting and somehow... funny Very Happy

bloodsucker has showed us a lot of different kinds of vehicles in Chinese with "车". I just want to add a very small thing. We use some different verbs for different kinds of vehicles. For instance, we say: 骑自行车 (qi zi xing che), 坐/开汽车 (zuo/kai qi che)... Anyway, I really appreciate all of your comments in this topic. Thanks for posting this.

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