Mandarin Monday: 要坚持才能成功

This Chinese essay I wrote last week during our 45 minutes class. That’s never enough time for me to write a longer essay and my teacher always likes to point that out, my essays are way too short!

Click the essay to see a larger version!

For those of you who don’t follow my Facebook page, me and my boyfriend are looking for a new apartment. My landlord wants to raise our rent and it’s already high enough. So we decided to move, just don’t know where yet! The following two weeks will be full of apartment hunting, packing and cleaning so there might be even fewers posts.

I’ll write more about apartment hunting in Guangzhou when we find one and are settled in!

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  • Robert

    Unfortunately the markings in red are a bit too cryptic to me.  I can’t really work out what the nature of the errors is…

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    Sara Jaaksola Reply:

    The wavy line under the sentences means it’s a good sentence. The circles around a character like 了 and 的 means that those aren’t needed, they should be removed. Does this make it a bit clearer?

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    Robert Reply:

     Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. 

    Does anyone actually know when to use 了?

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  • Ihcnawleong

    那有可能他的艺术水平没进步          
    The sentence is good. but If i make this sentence.I think i would like to change the sentence to be:

    那怎么可能他的艺术水平没有进步 ( 呢)
    or
    那他的艺术水平怎么可能不进步   (呢)

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    Wang Reply:

    同志,别误导人家啊,你没仔细看上下文,Sara本来的意思没错,你写的意思则反了,比较流畅的表达方式是“那么,有可能他的艺术水平不会提高得如此之快,他后来也很难成为大画家!”

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  • Ihcnawleong

    那有可能他的艺术水平没进步          
    The sentence is good. but If i make this sentence.I think i would like to change the sentence to be:

    那怎么可能他的艺术水平没有进步 ( 呢)
    or
    那他的艺术水平怎么可能不进步   (呢)

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    Sara Jaaksola Reply:

    Thank you!

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    whatshell Reply:

    提高艺术水平,而不是进步艺术水平。
    so, 那他的艺术水平就可能不能提高

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  • jerry

    hope you will find a nice and cheap apartment soon

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