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Posted on: Where is the Supermarket?

When you want to ask a question in Chinese, just change the object into the word you want to ask, like 谁（who，whom），哪里（where），什么（what）.It is a little different from English. When you want to ask a question in English, you put the word you care at the beginning of the sentence. When you hear 'Who is...' ,you know that the asker is going to ask a question about a person.But If you hear a question in Chinese ,you don't understand what the asker want to ask at first.

eg:

导演（film director）

导演是什么？and 导演是谁？are different ,the first question means'What is a film director in Chinese'or'What does the word 导演 mean?',and the second question means "Who is the film director (of this film)?".When you hear 导演是...you can't identify it.

eg.

A:机场在哪儿？（Where is the airport?)

B:机场在那儿。（It' there.)

Posted on: Where is the Supermarket?

It seems that there aren't any differences between 边 and 面。

If you really care it, we usually use 边 when you wanna give a position, when you are in the street or other outdoor places.

And we use 面 when we are talking about a object.

Because 边 and 面 sound similar，we don't care them when we are talking.

e.g.

A:机场在哪里？

B:在东边。

A:中国大饭店在哪里？

B:在机场的后面。

Posted on: Welcome to ChinesePod

Mm...晃悠is a slang ,it means stay, or come and have a look.