if you could give an extra list of the most basic adjectives would be really great !  Thanks

These words, which are translations of European concepts, were created first by Japanese people, and later introduced to China mainly by Chinese intelligentsia who studied in Japan at that time.

The three major East Asian languages, Chinese, Korean and Japanese, were greatly influenced by European languages during modernization in the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.

Below are some examples I found on the net.

词尾“化”：多元化、大众化、公式化、电气 化、革命化……

词尾“式”：西洋式、方程式、简易式、问答式、流动式……

词尾“炎”：气管炎、关节炎、胃炎、肠炎……

词尾“力”：生产力、消费力、想象力、劳动力、记忆力……

词尾“性”：可能性、偶然性、放射性、原则性、创造性……

词尾“的”：大众的、自然的、必然的、偶然的、秘密的……

词尾“型”：新型、流线型、标准型……

词尾“论”：方法论、唯物论、认识论、结论、推论……

词尾“观”：主观、乐观、悲观、世界观、宇宙观……

词尾“法”：辩证法、分析法、归纳法……

词尾“感”：美感、好感、情感、敏感、读后感、优越感

BTW: Thanks, Changye, valuable background as ever.

性 means 'nature','feature',characteristic,性质. 可能性possibility、偶然性occasionality、放射性radioactivity、原则性principle、创造性creativity

Personally speaking, 型 and 式 are quite close to each other...it also means style,type.mode.I am not sure whether either of them can be substituted by the other.

西洋式、方程式、简易式、问答式、流动式

occidentalism, equation. simple type, question and answer mode

BTW,Have you been online for the whole day?I saw your comments were everywhere!@@

The meaning of 型 is Type.

 性 has are many meaning,But in there,性 is added after noun,verb or adj to be a abstract Nouns or attributive words.expressing the character of the adorned word

The meaning of 型 is Type.

性 has are many meaning,But in there,性 is added after noun,verb or adj to be a abstract Nouns or attributive words.expressing the character of the adorned word

Have you studied Japanese and Korean too? I think you commented before on one of my comments a while back.

If you speak Korean, I wonder if you know of a good source for cognates. For example "可能性" and "가능성" I know there are thousands of examples out there, and I keep noticing them as I'm studying Chinese, but it'd be great to have a website or book that lays them out for you.

I'm afraid I only have a source written in Japanese (PDF file), which is the paper titled "Influence of Japanese language on modern Chinese and Korean" written by a Korean-Chinese researcher.

You can find some lists of Japan-made Chinese words starting at page 3, and lists of Japan-made Korean words starting at page 11. I think they are worth glancing at even if you can't read Japanese.

http://www.nsu.ac.jp/nsu_j/kikan/lab/e-asia/17-5.pdf

As you know, modern Korean contain tons of words and phrases which were borrowed not only from ancient Chinese but also from modern Japanese, mainly because Korea was under Japanese rule in the first half of the 20th century.

Actually, Korean people can't communicate anymore without using those Japan-made words, and similarly, we Japanese also can't communicate without using words borrowed from Chinese and some European languages, mainly English and German.

PS 可能性(가능성) is also one of those words borrowed from Japanese.

I am sure you know them~

As for a word that describes making something gender nuetral, how about: uni-sexify, as in driving big pickup trucks is being uni-sexified by cowgirls with big Fords.

I posted this several times, but no response :-)

Could you please tell me how I can get the QingWen, News & Feautures and Shanghainese lessons in my dashboard? They are not added automatically and I am subscribed to all channels. Why do I get the Newbie to Media lessons but not the rest? 

Anyone else have the same problem?

If you are subscribed you get them downloaded to i-Tunes anyway; you don't need Dashboard do you? I find the Lessons tab more useful. There is also an email notice but this seems to come a few days after the lesson is available.

If we try to remember how it was before, we don't need Dashboard for anything. Some people find the Latest and Replies to Me tab useful.

I also just got an email announcement for a new 'media' level lesson, even though I'm not subscribed to that level (only in my dreams!)

Sorry we forgot to name you in the podcast :)

Also, all new lessons and shows are added at the bottom of your dashboard lesson list, not the top.

I'll have someone on the tech. team look into this again. Not having problems on this end but clearly something's off if the lessons aren't showing up in your dashboard feed.

Why are new lessons added to the bottom? You make it sound like a feature; I thought it was a bug that would soon be fixed. It would look better if they were added to the top. It would be easier to see, easier to get to, and would give it some importance., And it would be consistent with the Latest and Replies to Me tabs. It's got to be a bug, right? Don't tell us that it is always going to look like this. :)