Showing posts with label idiom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label idiom. Show all posts

Saturday, 14 June 2014

English Idioms 01

Language is very interesting, I especially love how we can use a sentences to represent something that doesn't have anything to do with the word itself, like an idiom.
What is idiom? Wiki says that:
An idiom (Latin: idioma, "special property", f. Greek: ἰδίωμα – idiōma, "special feature, special phrasing", f. Greek: ἴδιος – idios, "one’s own") is a combination of words that have a figurative meaning owing to its common usage. An idiom's figurative meaning is separate from the literal meaning. There are thousands of idioms and they occur frequently in all languages. There are estimated to be at least twenty-five thousand idiomatic expressions in the English language.
Just like how I love chéngyǔ 成语 in Mandarin language, I also love idiom in English language.

Let's see some English idioms, their definition, and how to use it in our daily life..

Saturday, 24 May 2014

Chinese Can Be Fun [chéngyǔ 成语 01]

I've told you before that I used to learn Chinese language in China, while I don't particularly like Chinese language, I do like to learn various language. Oh, and for you smartphone user, you may find Pleco Dictionary to be very useful in learning Chinese, I use this application myself, and it help me a lot!
After I learn Chinese for a while, I found out that Chinese people is very brilliant! How awesome is it to be able to draw using one or more character? Look at this exaple:
Can you see the word Měilì de gūniáng 美丽的姑娘 there? It means beautiful girl in English. and the picture represent the word itself! How cool is that?