So, it's been three months since my last update, and I've done very little language studying since.
I started with the letter B of Bradley Arnold's right away back then, and then sat on the second B word for three months...
terga dare (to turn one’s back)
--cur terga nunc datis cum Marti Iovique iuravissetis?
...Yeah.
Anyhow, my plan now is to study Mandarin relatively intensively in my free time, especially in August when I'll be in my vacation time and will have plenty of time.
A few lexical items I recently learned:
总之 zǒngzhī - in a nutshell, in brief
露台 lùtái - balcony without a roof, deck, patio
阳台 yángtái - balcony with a roof
具有 jùyǒu - possess
享有 xiǎngyǒu - enjoy [a right by law]
同等 tóngděng - equal (in value)
半途而废 bàntúérfèi - to leave/abandon something half-done
无论如何 wúlùnrúhé - anyhow
如鱼得水 rúyúdéshǔi - with great, natural ease (literally "like fish getting into water")
--他的英语说得如鱼得水 tā de yīnyǔ shuō de rúyúdéshǔi - 'He speaks English like a native (with such ease as if he were a native speaker)'
EDIT: Also, man, I don't know what's up with Google Chrome, but the third tone doesn't show up correctly anymore. It seems it's automatically converting pre-composed [VOWEL] WITH CARON characters to composed characters with the combining diacritical mark CARON.
Terrible.
Of course, the real source of the problem is not so much Chrome but the Microsoft Trebuchet font that UniLang uses. I remember I once proposed to change it but the proposal went nowhere...