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Wow bar in 九眼桥 (if your under 30)
Beernest 2
Shamrock
Polly Centre (Here we go, Tag, Mcelroys)
Tai Koo Li (Blue Frog, Element Fresh, Wagas etc)
Underground on Wednesday for quiz night.
There’s a few for starters, you can add me on wechat if you like (stubblyjoe84) if you need anything else. Always happy to help out a fellow Scot, even a weedgie! 🙂
Hi Kathy, thanks for the reply. Like I said I’m in the very early stages, but basically its a product roughly the same shape and size as a internet router. If you know any designers capable if this let me know.
Cheers
成人用品。 (cheng ren yong pin)
Look out for these characters, there are hundreds and hundreds of them dotted around.
That dating game is actually pretty good for listening practice, and I like it that they have the subtitles underneath, so you can confirm you are undersanding correctly and can look up words you dont know. Newer chinese movies have chinese and english subtitles, which can be helpful.
As regards to going to Chinese Uni, I felt it was useful. I hear from others that sichuan uni methods are pretty poor, lots of focus on hand writing (Pretty, but useless) and learning characters, but slight neglect on listening and speaking. I went to xi nan cai da, and although not without its faults, I would recommend it.
Immersion – useless in sichuan.
Im Scottish (from Alloa, near Stirling).
It’s raining today. Winter is grim rather than cold, but because the houses are so badly made you’d be best to bring some warm clothes.
I certainly wouldnt get your hopes up about the food, its probably the most disgusting gruel you’ll ever have the misfortune to eat.
But you should be ok, plenty sugelan ren (Scots) knocking about.
I live in jinsha, there is no public bus to wenjiang anymore. That ended around march time when jinsha station closed and the services moved to chadianzi. Jinsha to wenjiang would take more than an hour by public transport as you need to travel to chadianzi first.
Wenjiang to the city centre isn’t a massive ball ache, you can take subway line 2 from chadianzi direct to the city centrem although I’d still guess more than an hour all in.
It’s well documented the locals of both these cities are fiercely competitive and by extension so seem to be the foreigners living in those respected cities. Brendan, you make Chongqing sound like the scene of the apocalypse. A broken city devoid of soul? That seems unfair. If anything the edginess of the place gives it more soul than Chengdu IMO. Compared to chongqing chengdu is too laid back, too placid, but that suits a lot of people and I understand that. It’s horses for courses.
And with the ole supermarkets and a metro supermarket I can’t think of anything you can procure here that you can’t get in CQ.
But yeah, if your a cyclist stick to chengdu.
You need to decide what you want more, to live in chengdu or maximise your mandarin proficiency. I agree with the others it is possible to learn mandarin here, and most people can speak it, the problem is they don’t.
Unless you ask people to do so, they usually won’t speak to you in mandarin, and when you are in a group of Chinese the ones I’ve been in don’t all revert back to mandarin for the sake of one person. I found my listening has really suffered from learning mandarin in Chengdu as you can’t practice by listening to people on the bus ect. I only noticed my listening wasn’t too bad when visited nanjing and could follow what people were saying without asking them to slow down or change their dialect.
Make no mistake, in Chengdu, mandarin is not king!
Does anyone else have problem posting on here sometime? It just stops inputting what you write?
To continue, there are less foreigners in Chongqing, so that can be perceived as positive or negative! But the city has an edge that Chengdu doesn’t have.
And with regards to your question on putonghua being more prevalent in Chengdu, I never noticed that, almost all people under 70 can understand putonghua and almost all peopleI under 40 can speak it. This is the same in both cities. I actually find the Chongqing dialect slightly easier to understand.
These are only my opinions and hopefully someone can give you a balanced argument on the contrary so you have lots of information at hand.
Hi Zak, for some reason I can’t IM you. I’ve lived in Chengdu for over 2 years and 1 year in Chongqing. The main reasons I prefer chongqing are the set-up of the city. Its set out like New York with different areas all of which feel slightly different and have individual centres to each. Whereas Chengdu just feels like a small Beijing with no skyline and one city centre.
Another tangible benefit of Chongqing is the ridiculously low rent in the city. For a nice 1 bedroom in a desired area of chengdu you will pay 2500-3000 per month. My newly built apartment in Nanping in Chongqing was 1500 a month for a one bedroom. Taxis are cheap too compared to Chengdu, and the subway system at present is more convenient than Chengdu.
There’s the fourth question you should be asking is should I move to Chongqing instead? If I had a clean slate and no ties in chengdu it would be a very very easy question to answer.
