Open F2F Class Notes 28th December (Tony)

salon – a place to get a haircut

eg: “I went to a salon last week to cut my hair.”

hang out –  stay somewhere and don’t do anything specific, do anything or nothing…

eg: “I was hanging out at home all day.”

sip – a small drink, to drink a little slowly

“I sip whiskey.”

melt – rong hua

eg: “The flavor is different when the ice in whiskey melts.”

on the rocks – cocktail on ice

neat – straight liquor (whiskey) in a glass, not a shot

eg: “I’ll have two whiskeys on the rocks and one neat whiskey.”

Xin Tian Di – The Refinery, sell american style beers. Made at Shanghai Brewery. IPA Beer

Original –

Chinese internet has a lot netizens. Because of this, we have a lot of new net-words and up-dating speed of net-words is fast. Recently, Chinese netizens created some interesting words and the “skinny blue mushroom” was one of words. After his girlfriend was away with him, he said I felt sad and I wanted to cry. But his Guangxi accent sounded like “Lanshou, xianggu”, which meant “Skinny blue mushroom.” Before he uploaded this video to Weibo, he never thought he could be popular and his girlfriend would come back again.

Correction –

The Chinese internet has a lot of netizens. Because of this, we have a lot of new net-words and they are updating quickly. Recently, Chinese netizens created some interesting words and the “skinny blue mushroom” was one of the words. After a guy’s girlfriend left him, he said I felt sad and I wanted to cry. But his Guangxi accent sounded like “Lanshou, xianggu”, which meant “Skinny blue mushroom.” Before he uploaded this video to Weibo, he never thought he would be popular and his girlfriend would come back to him.

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