Tuesday, September 16, 2003

Using Google for studying Chinese

I found a way to use Google for Chinese study. I'm going through the book Making Connections and came up to a question that I didn't know and the book did not answer. In Lesson 6 the book has the student use 一点都不 and 一点也不 to answer questions. While these sounded familiar, I didn't really know what the two phrases meant. I typed them into Wenlin, copied and pasted the sentences into Google, and found good examples for both phrases. In particular I liked what I found for 一点也不. It gets used well at the end of a joke. Actually the example I found for 一点都不 worked out too. It showed up in a quote by Linus Torvalds, who isn't worried at all about SCO.

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