👋 Welcome to this fortnight’s issue of the Giant Mandarin newsletter. In this issue, I cover words on the topic of hiking.
🎯 Words
徒步 túbù - hiking; on foot 🥾
爬山 páshān - to climb a mountain 🧗🏔
爬 pá - to climb; to crawl 🧗
山 shān - mountain; hill 🏔
地图 dìtú - map 🗺
起点 qǐdiǎn - starting point
终点 zhōngdiǎn - end point
公里 gōnglǐ - kilometer 📏
方向 fāngxiàng - direction 🧭
路线 lùxiàn - route; itinerary
路 lù - road; path; route
陡 dǒu - steep
上坡 shàngpō - to move up a slope; uphill
下坡 xiàpō - to move down a slope; downhill
树 shù - tree 🌲
树林 shùlín - woods; smaller-sized forest 🌲🌲
森林 sēnlín - forest 🌲🌲🌲
泥 ní - mud
沙子 shāzi - sand
尘土 chéntǔ - dust
石头 shítou - stone; rock
脚印 jiǎoyìn - footprint 👣
休息 xiūxi - to rest; rest 😴
歇 xiē - to take a break; to rest
喝水 hēshuǐ - to drink water
喝 hē - to drink
水 shuǐ - water 💧
👀 Recommendations
🎧 Podcast episode. China Stories: Reform and Dialing Up: The Early Days of the Chinese Netizen, The World of Chinese (20 minutes, July 19, 2022, Spotify, Apple Podcasts)
When was the term “wangmin” coined, and how did China’s cyberspace evolve from the first-generation of netizens to today? Read the article by Alice Chen: https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2022/07/reform-and-dialing-up-the-early-days-of-the-chinese-netizen/. Narrated by Cliff Larsen.
🎧 Podcast episode. Sinica Podcast: Fuchsia Dunlop on ‘The Food of Sichuan’ (1 hour, 8 minutes, November 14, 2019, Spotify, Apple Podcasts)
Fuchsia Dunlop, the preeminent writer on Chinese cuisine in the English language, has published a completely revised and updated version of Land of Plenty, her classic book on Sichuan cookery, containing 70 new recipes. Her newest book is titled The Food of Sichuan. She joins Kaiser and guest host Jim Millward of Georgetown University in a discussion of this wildly popular cuisine — and how to get started as a Sichuan chef in your own kitchen.
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