Life In China #15 Shopping Malls

Life in China #15 Shopping Malls

In the large cities, there is an abundance of malls. Turn to your left, a mall. Turn to your right another mall. Look up? That towering building may indeed be a mall.

There is literally a mall around every corner, with 3 within walking distance of my university. Back at home, we have one mall in our city and it's a 45 min bus ride to get there.

It's quite a nice mall, but China's 10 floor malls just make my head spin.

S-Verbs in Chinese

(Reposting this again because something went really wrong with the editing, my apologies)

Most common Verbs in Chinese starting with S!

Satisfy - 满足 - mǎnzú

Save - 保存- bǎocún

Say - 说 - shuō

See -见 - jiàn

Seek - 寻找 - xúnzhǎo

Sell ​​- 卖 - mài

Send - 发送 - fāsòng

Serve - 服务 - fúwù

Settle - 解决 - jiějué

Scan - 扫描 - sǎomiáo

Scrape -刮 - guā

Shake - 摇 - yáo

Share - 分享 - fēnxiǎng

Shoot (a weapon) - 开枪 - kāi qiāng

Show (a performance) - 表现 - biǎoxiàn

Shrink - 缩小 - suōxiǎo

Shut (a window, door) - 关闭 - guānbì

Sing - 唱 - chàng

Sit - 坐 - zuò

Sleep - 睡觉 - shuìjiào

Slide - 滑 - huá

Stand up - 站起来 - zhàn qǐlái

Start - 开始 - kāishǐ

Stay - 留 - liu

Steal - 偷- tōu

Stick - 贴 - tiē

Stop - 停止 - tíngzhǐ

Stretch - 伸展 - shēnzhǎn

Strike - 打击 - dǎjí

Study - 学习 - xuéxí

Succeed - 成功 - chénggōng

Suffer - 受苦 - shòukǔ

Suggest - 建议 - jiànyì

Supply - 提供 - tígōng

Support - 支持 - zhīchí

Suppose - 假设 - jiǎshè

Survive - 生存 - sūngcún

Swear (to pledge) - 发誓 - fāshì

Sweat - 出汗 - chūhàn

Sweep -打扫 - dǎsǎo

Swim - 游泳 - yóuyǒng

Symbolize - 标志 - biāozhì

Insect season is now in full swing.

Almost every dorm floor has complained about the flying roaches, and now our dorm just issued a notice warning us about ants and to keep everything closed. Fun times ahead.

Life in China #13 Summer

Summer means insect season, which has now apparently expanded to includes wasps as I discovered when walking to pick up my parcel, and having a wasp just randomly crash into my forehead and then nonchalantly buzz off on it's merry little way.

Re: Playlist - It's partly done and avaliable here on youtube for anyone interested!

It's mostly 2000-2016ish songs for now, but my beloved 70s-90s hits will be added once I have some more spare time.

It includes english versions of the songs by the artists, one or two that are a mixture of Russian and another language aka 2003, and a slightly embarrassing amount of Sergey Lazarev songs.

Note: Some songs aka Voyage may include some explicit language, just as a heads up.

Enjoy!

Call me biased but 1970s-2000s was the peak of russian music. Not that there aren't any good songs now, but there's just something about music from time period that really gets me.

Q-Verbs in Chinese

Most common q-verbs (not that many!) in Chinese!

Quantify - 量化 - liànghuà

Quarrel - 吵架 - chǎojià

Quash - 镇压 - zhènyā

Quench (thirst) - 解渴 - jiěkě

Question - 提问 - tíwèn

Quilt - 绗 - háng

Quit - 放弃 - fàngqì

A job - 辞去 - Cíqù

School - 退学 - Tuìxué

Quote - 引用 - yǐnyòng

Quell - 平息 - píngxī