Counter attack

Counter attack=反fan3击ji1

虎hu3 Just because this shape looks like the mouth of a tiger which will eat everything throwing in.

Squeeze

挤ji3 I haven't found a english term like this.

I think squeeze

Nose Attachment

鼻bi2顶din3(nose attachment)

And from last night's game:

气合=kiai qi4 he2 ??

不得不杀 I have no choice but to kill
不 得不 bu4 de2 bu4 have no choice but to
杀 sha1 to kill

不得不战 I have no choice but to fight
不得不 bu4 de2 bu4
战 zhan4 fight

不得不死 Have no choice but to die!

Can you tell what style of game we were playing? Yes, a fighting game ^^ He started it though, I was trying to peacefully take my 3/4 of the board, but he complicated.

Today I will go to go club

Great, you can speak some sentences. Guess it something like my english but easy to understand. '今天我要去围棋会' sounds better. It's right to use '将' describle something happens in the future, but we always skip it when have used a definite date.

今天 jin1 tian1 Today
我 wo3 I
要 yao4 will be going to
去 qu4 to go
围棋 wei2 qi2 go
会 hui4 club

Nobi

Nobi:

长 is a polyphonic character and has different meanings. Though '长zhang3' means 'grow/to develop' when it's a verb, but it's spelled 长chang2 when it's used as a Go term. In fact 长chang2 means 'length' when it's a noun and also means 'long' when it is a adj.. It reall make no sense but i don't know why.

There have many polyphonic characters in chinese and on the other hand they can be combined to words. So 3000 characters is enough for chinese while american have to remember 12000 english one.

I finally got back to listening to chinese lesson podcasts last night. All this go / chinese studying is motivating me to work harder at things :)

I visited Chinese Lessons with Serge Melnyk , a site I hadn't seen before. Looks like a good resource for beginners.

Long time no see

好久不见

hao3 jiu3 bu5 jian4

Long time no see.

the chinese nation

LOL, we chinese call it '国骂 ma4' means the abuse word of nation. We call something traditional which is really good such as Calligraphy, Peiking opera and Go etc. as '国粹 cui4', and it means the best old thing of the nation.