For those who wish to avoid the gym, part of one’s training should be to approach calisthenics like one would the weights and increase that difficulty over time.
Yup, 那个 (nèige; pronounced neigh-gur or ni-gur), one of Mandarin Chinese's most common words. Literally means "that one/thing/thingee/thingamajigger" but can be used as a conversational gapfiller akin to English "Umm", which is why you hear it all the time on Chinese-speaker's lips!
Some regions/dialects pronounce it as nàge (nah-gur), particularly in the south, but at some point there was a definitive vowel change in the northern dialects because 那个 nàge ("that one") is very similar to 哪个 nǎge (naah-gur, "which one?").
Thus the offensive-to-American-ears "nèige" came to dominate every sentence of Mandarin Chinese!
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Yup, 那个 (nèige; pronounced neigh-gur or ni-gur), one of Mandarin Chinese's most common words. Literally means "that one/thing/thingee/thingamajigger" but can be used as a conversational gapfiller akin to English "Umm", which is why you hear it all the time on Chinese-speaker's lips!
Some regions/dialects pronounce it as nàge (nah-gur), particularly in the south, but at some point there was a definitive vowel change in the northern dialects because 那个 nàge ("that one") is very similar to 哪个 nǎge (naah-gur, "which one?").
Thus the offensive-to-American-ears "nèige" came to dominate every sentence of Mandarin Chinese!
LOL! So what does that word really mean? Explained below -
I liked your skit a lot. Educational and fun