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I can tell I'm back in Shandong Province.
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Ever since Fergie peed her pants on stage......I just can't look at her the same.
If it makes you feel better, the group reunited this year after a 3 year hiatus..... Without Fergie. No announcement has been made, but based on the way they've talked about her, it seems that she's done.
 
Pig is quite a complex character, many strokes. and is a combination of radicals.

There's a free app called Pleco, that I've been using for a long time to help me study.
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https://www.pleco.com/products/pleco-for-android/

This is a good site as well, if you're interested.
http://zhongwen.com/

There's something like 65,000 Chinese characters, but most students will learn about 3,500 to 4,500, of the most common and useful ones. I only know a few hundred that I've learned I've mainly concentrated on learning spoken Mandarin.

Many words especially quite modern things will use a combination of two or three characters, e.g. 电脑 for computer. 电 electric, or something that is electric, 脑 which means brain, so it's literally electric brain. Another common one is 火车 for train, 火 means fire, 车 means a vehicle, or something moves on wheels. Presumably from steam trains, than ran on coal and fire.

This the one of the most simple ones, 人 pronounced "ren", which means a person. And it is a pictogram of what it's representing, kind of looks like a man.
 
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Here's a couple more of my favourites, anyone care to guess what they might be. :)
手机:
手 means hand, 机 means machine or could be a device, literally hand machine or hand device i.e. a machine or device that's held in the hand.
打火机:
打 means hit, or to hit something, 火 means fire, 机 again this means a machine or a device. so literally hit fire machine.
牛仔裤:
牛 means cattle or cow, 牛仔 together means cowboy, and 裤 means pants or trousers. so literally cowboy pants.
 
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Split decision; Should I post here, or in the "speak only in questions" thread?
Who really cares, as long as the message rings out clearly over the land?

"Hey Conan........When will you make me laugh; Even once in this lifetime?"
 
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