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ratbadger -

Hi everyone

Im researching an ancient chinese tribe, and i want to know how to pronounce their name in simple
english letters...Can someone tell me how to pronounce these two words please:

月氏, and 月支

Would appreciate as many responses as possible...because i keep finding different answers

Thanks

Peace out



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dsrguru -

月氏 ("moon clan") is transcribed as yuè shì in the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system. 月支
("moon division" perhaps?) is yuè zhī. You won't be able to pronounce either phrase correctly if
you aren't familiar with Hanyu Pinyin and Mandarin pronunciation in general. 月 sounds something
like "yweh", 氏 sounds something like "sher" (with the 'r' pronounced as in American English),
and 支 sounds something like "jer". You almost certainly won't be understood by a Chinese
speaker, though, unless you were to use the proper tones.










largerman -

月氏 should be read as yuè zhī, but only in this word.
月氏 is the name of a race on China's history.










liuxf -

月 should be read as ru2(like 如).












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Questions regarding double weddings within the same year
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BGONG -

Help!!! I am having a huge crisis in my life and i need some guidance from someone with a little
more knowledge in the subject of Chinese weddings. Here's the situation. In Dec. of 2007 i
recently got engaged and planned on having my wedding on Sept. 20th. During this time my brother
was also engaged but had not set a time on when he was going to get married. Just today i found
out that my parents and him had discussed and actually planned an August wedding w/o me knowing.
Now his wedding is only going to be him and his fiance neither my family or her family is invited
to there wedding. My biggest concern is the superstition surrounding double marriages within the
same year. My fiance is filipino and her family had expressed to me that it is extremely taboo to
have weddings in the same year in regards to immediate family. My family has countered by saying
that in chinese culture this is very good luck and fortunate for both my brother and myself. As
you probably already figured out there is a huge dilemma and my family and my fiances family is
going to start off on the wrong foot which leads me to believe that double weddings is bad news
already. Now from other sources i have some agreeing w/me and others not stating that chinese
culture is for and against double weddings. Does anyone have proof or does anyone know if double
weddings in a year are good or bad luck? Please i have already caused a huge ruckus w/ my family
since they knew about my fiance's belief and i just need some clarification on whether my family
is correct or incorrect.



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Lu -

First of all, congratulations on both weddings, regardless of any complications!

Second, there might be a good solution. I don't know how set your wedding date is, but if you
could postpone it a bit, you could actually make both families happy by marrying in January 2009.
That's within the same year according to the Chinese lunar calendar, but in the new year according
to the Western calendar (which I am assuming Filipinos use).

I hope you can work this out, it would be a pity to start off on the wrong foot this way.

Edit:
Just thought of another possible option. Not sure what it's like among Chinese in the Philippines,
but in Taiwan and in China the wedding banquet (after which the family considers you married) is
well after the official wedding (after which the gov't considers you married). If that doesn't
make things overly complicated, you could perhaps split the two up (have the Chinese wedding this
year for luck, and the Filipino one later on against bad luck); or your brother could have either
of his weddings at another date.

Or
Convince your Filipino in-laws that since according to Chinese custom double weddings are good
luck, and you & your brother are both Chinese, Filipino superstition doesn't apply for you and as
long as your fiance's family doesn't have another marriage this year, everything will be fine.










BrandeX -



Quote:

good or bad luck

I just got married last week. When dealing with my wife regarding our marriage or any other
conflicts regarding some nonsensical superstition I ask her to please remember this is the 21st
century, not the 11th or w/e, and that she is a university graduate who is supposed to be educated
and not some countryside peasant girl, and shouldn't believe in such annoying baseless "ideas".
can't do this, must do that, etc. or something totally unrelated and misfortunate will happen...
you get the idea.


Needless to say this so far never works for me yet. Hahaha.











Woodpecker -

Many Congratulations to BGONG and BrandeX!!












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多少 duo1shao5 vs. duo1shao3
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roddy -

I suspect what happens is that unvoiced sounds sandwiched between two voiced sounds will become
voiced. The uo of duo and ao so shao are voiced.

That said it's not even a proper 'r', I think it's just a lazy flick back of the tongue between
the two vowel sounds which ends up sounding more like an 'r' than anything else.

And for extra credit, here's a very old topic about this kind of stuff.



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I'm currently from the UK and desperate to learn chinese. One of my options is to study in
Shanghai.. however SOAS is really tempting.

Does anyone have any experience studying in this University?
I heard that the second year you get sent to Beijing to study. What kind of accommodation do you
get?



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Hi there, if I were to be brutally honest, no matter how good they teach Chinese in the UK it
still wont give you the experience nor learning potential that studying in China does... I like my
Uni in the UK (just up the road) and I really like the teachers there... but here its a much more
intense learning experience.










roddy -

SOAS students (at least some of them, perhaps someone can confirm if it's all or not) go to BNU
and stay in the student dorms there. If you do a search for BNU / Beishida you might find some
useful info - although that said students on exchange programs often have different classes, etc,
to independent students.










adrianlondon -

The SOAS students at BNU while I was there were placed in class 102, with anyone else who had the
equivalent of a year's previous full-time study.










simonlaing -

As person who also considered Soas,
I have heard that SOAS's purely language study of CHinese and Arabic is quite good.

Though it is in the middle of the city, which is expensive. Coming from the UK you probably knew
that. Also the other non-language degrees are somewhat light weight and many of the students it is
a pot-head reputation.

If you're into that it might be good.

4 year degrees in China are time consuming, difficult and not as respected as one from the
western, even if your actual chinese level might be higher.
(when I say not respected, I mean you could find major difficulties getting a job in the west with
just a BA from a chinese university, at least at the moment.)

If you're looking at schools in the UK, edinbuargh (sp?) has a good chinese program. I met a few
people from there. They seemed to have skills.

Good luck,
SimoN










extrapages -

i have some friends here at BNU that are part of the SOAS program.
they have moved off campus, close to school.
i could ask them some specific questions, if you like.












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Conversational Chinese 301
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Conversational Chinese 301







Paperback, 198 pages
ISBN10: 7561914032
ISBN13:
Publication Date: 2005-7
Annotation language: English
Language skill: Speaking, Integrated
Level: Beginner
Category: Chinese Textbooks for Adults - Integrated Textbooks
Medium: Paper


Conversational Chinese 301 was first published in 1990. Its revised edition, included in the
series of "BLCU choice textbook for learners overseas", was published in 1998. Conversational
Chinese 301 has several different versions, including versions annotated in English, in French, in
Japanese, and in Korean etc., and the sales of all these versions added up to over 300,000 copies.
It is regarded as the most popular Chinese textbooks for foreigners all over the world at present.
The third edition of Conversational Chinese 301 is divided into two volumes: Volume 1 and Volume
2. Versions of the third edition annotated in different languages will be published successively
to satisfy the various needs of learners of Chinese all over the world.


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