trevelyan on May 15, 2012 (0) | reply
The subordinate relationship indicated by 的 runs the other way. In the simpler phrase 我的车, the car is subordinate to me. The general category comes first, then the subordinate particle 的 and finally the specific object which falls into that category. Which car? My car. The car which is "of me".

It is exactly the same in this sentence -- the guano is defined as falling into the category of things which are described as 属于你的. So this is not just any guano we are talking about, but "the portion which belongs to you" or "the amount which is your due". If we wanted to translate it really literally, we might say that the guano is "of that which belongs to you".

Note -- you can get away with dropping 属于 completely and still have a correct sentence, but in that case it would just be "your portion" and we'd lose some of the emotional nuance.

trevelyan on May 14, 2012 (0) | reply
Hi 华金,

Thanks for the support! First things first, you can change your spaced repetition settings on the following page:

http://popupchinese.com/account/review

That said, if you just want to practice reviewing from your vocabulary list, go to your vocabulary list (http://popupchinese.com/vocabulary), select the words you want to review and then click on the "review" button in the left-hand sidebar. You can also change your default page length to make it easier to select *everything* if you want.

Alternately, if you are viewing a set of labelled vocabulary and click the review button, it will prompt you to review the entries in that set without the need for manually specifying which words you want to review.

华金 on May 14, 2012 (0) | reply
Excellent, I sorted it out. Thanks!
trevelyan on May 13, 2012 (0) | reply
@dhlsguard-1,

It's the same section of code that produces both files. What has probably changed are your personal settings which are customizing the pdf based on your preferences. Specifically, what vocabulary options are included in the PDF are determined by your "Vocabulary Options":

http://popupchinese.com/account/customize

If you change these settings, they take effect immediately. So deleting the downloaded file and redownloading it through iTunes should get you the most up-to-date version.

Update: it was a problem affecting downloads when logged-out. Have just implemented a fix.

Best,

--david

trevelyan on May 12, 2012 (0) | reply
@seamus5,

The good news is that once you know the basics of stroke order you can pretty much write any character that you want. For learning them, you might want to check out either our lesson series on how to write Chinese characters, our Writing Pad for practicing on random characters or our Chinese Writer iPad/iPhone app, which is free, includes a brief tutorial on getting started and supports about 1000 characters.

One of the things we're working on is a way to upgrade this to much higher resolution graphics, support a much larger number of characters, and to make the process of teaching radicals more intuitive along with characters. In the meantime, though, hopefully it will give a start.
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