Squeak the Cat

Elementary: Squeak the Cat

We took Squeak in after a friend found him huddling in the bushes of her apartment complex. As he's grown up, our once-tiny kitten has developed a fondness for gnawing on things as a general solution to any problem, along with a voracious appetite for lychee and fondness for fetching paper balls. Given that our last non-Chinese cat spent most of its time sleeping, our conclusion is that Chinese cats are pretty cool.

Learning Chinese? At the elementary level our dialogues start moving away from simple words to more complex sentences. And while our dialogue for today is still not that complex, it moves as quickly as the language you'll hear on the streets of Beijing. So if you're pushing ahead with your mandarin or are an animal lover looking to pick up some pet-related vocabulary, join us for a lesson that will set you on the right track.

Echo

said on

May 25, 2011

This is a muscle-cat...肌肉猫...

--Echo

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尼古拉斯桑

said on

May 25, 2011

太可爱了。他还会捡纸球吗？

Echo

said on

May 25, 2011

@尼古拉斯桑,

对，他特别喜欢玩纸球。不过他和狗捡球的方法有点儿不一样，他如果想玩儿，就会把球捡回来，如果他不想玩儿，怎么扔他也不捡。他非常self-centered...

--Echo

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leuken46

said on

May 25, 2011

Keep up the good work. This was a fun.

尼古拉斯桑

said on

May 28, 2011

@Echo

听起来Squeak跟我的猫一样。

Echo

said on

May 29, 2011

@尼古拉斯桑,

哈哈，可是Squeak更喜欢玩儿的一个游戏是咬人......

--Echo

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Herbert T. Gillis

said on

June 8, 2011

...liked the quiz!

xiaoxin

said on

June 8, 2011

@griffith.craig,

你喜欢猫吧？

Herbert T. Gillis

said on

June 11, 2011

还可以, 最喜欢狗

xiaoxin

said on

June 11, 2011

@griffith.craig,

我也是最喜欢狗，特别是大的狗，它们真可爱。

Herbert T. Gillis

said on

June 17, 2011

我住在沈阳。最近沈阳规定不许养大狗

Sbriere

said on

December 1, 2011

Wow kinda disturbing...:(

bennyoyama

said on

May 27, 2012

Somewhat unrelated question - what do you think the best translation for "significant other" is?

Benny

Echo

said on

May 27, 2012

@bennyoyama,

你的问题很好... It's also a hard one, because in Chinese, we'd like to use more specific words, like 丈夫，妻子，（老公，老婆），男朋友，女朋友. The closest word I can think of now is 爱人. It can be used to refer to both female and male partners. However, it still tends to describe people who are married.

--Echo

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crowley.brendan

said on

April 17, 2013

Ha, my Chinese coworker wrote 灌 instead of 罐 for 罐头。

Success.

Joshua S.

said on

June 27, 2015

My Chinese friends all claim they could write 罐 easily...no way to prove it though as they are across the pond.

Xiao Hu

said on

June 27, 2015

@Crowley.brendan,.

缶部+艸字頭+吅+隹 makes a 罐

缶部 signifies this is a container, but 氵is not even in the ballpark. I don't understand how any self respecting Chinese could possibly make this mistake. Are you sure they weren't ABC?

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