F2F Class Notes April 17th (Ben)

Grammar

How was your exam?

How did your exam go?

Vocabulary

You would like to wrote –> write

What feedback did the teacher give?

一见钟情 love at first sight

When I met her, it was love at first sight.

青梅竹马 childhood sweethearts

It doesn’t have to be a love relationship, it can be about a very close friendship.

日久生情 you develop feelings for people over time

It wasn’t love at first sight when I met him, but I developed feelings for him over time.

a hidden meaning

Some words in Chinese may have a hidden meaning. A “no” could hide a “yes”.

Chinese ink painting is looks very simple and blank but it contains a lot of hidden meanings.

婉转 indirect, tactful

Chinese people like to be tactful and indirect when expressing ideas.

越来越开放 more and more open

艰深 hard to understand, profound (with a deep meaning)

Ink painting is hard to understand, it often carries a profound meaning.

直觉 intuition 

You need to trust your intuition if you want to fall in love at first sight.

相爱容易，相处难 It is easy to fall in love, it’s harder to get along.

It is easy to fall in love, it’s harder to stay in love.

儒雅, 有教养的 cultured, refined, knowledgeable, well-educated