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Hi Grace, I am working from home tomorrow which means I may get urgent calls during our lesson. It probably won't happen but I'm just warning you that we may have to wrap up early. Talk to you tomorrow!

Hi Chris, crash你也可以说“崩溃”（beng1kui4）.

你好 Grace, 怎么说 "baidu.com was hacked?" ^^

你好Chris，你可以说“百度bai3du4被bei4(黑客hei1ke4)黑hei1了。”黑客就是hacker。

Looking at the upcoming lessons I was wondering if we could focus on:

travelling (doing a lot of this at the moment)

computers (technical terms and the like...for my job)

anatomy/sports (I do various martial arts and rock climbing and am always forgetting terms for movement & body parts :)

thanks Grace!

Hi Chris,

Although our new lesson plan didn't cover the topics which you'd like to focus, we can talk more than the list I sent to you. Also, you can ask me questions here about any other topics. Anyway, I will try my best to cover the topics.

谢谢 Grace. I'm happy to continue with this month's lesson plan, 多是好. Perhaps in the coming months we could look at the other topics.

Hi Grace. Can you explain the various uses of 得? It can mean "must" as well, correct?

Hi Chris,

得can be"dei3;must", also can be "de"(a particle used after a verb).

Here are the examples:

你感冒了，得多喝水。Ni3 gan3mao4 le, dei3 duo1 he1shui3.(You have caught a cold, so you have to drink more water.)

我英语说得很好，但是汉语说得不太好。Wo3 ying1yu3 shuo1de hen3hao3, dan4shi4 han4yu3 shuo1de bu2tai4hao3.

Hope it's helpful.

most helpful thanks!

Hi Chris,

That's ok. Talk to you tomorrow.~~

你好Chris，

"Does the luggage allowance include a sports bag?" (or ski bag/snowboard bag)登机行李规定可以带运动包/滑雪板包吗？deng1ji1 xing2li3 gui1ding4 ke3yi3 dai4 yun4dong4bao1/hua2xue3ban3 bao1 ma?

"How much is the excess baggage fee?超重行李费多少？"chao1zhong4 xing2li3 fei4 duo1shao3?

"The mascot of Hokkaido is truly odd" 北海道的吉祥物真奇怪！bei3hai3dao4 de ji2xiang2wu4 zhen1 qi2guai4!

Xi1wang4 dui4 ni3 you3 bang1zhu4.

希望对你有帮助。Hope it helps.

 你好 Grace. 汉语怎么说：

太极拳forms/postures, 比如

wave hands like clouds

single whip

golden rooster stands on one leg

carry tiger back to mountain

monkey steals the peach

我也喜欢知道说

punch, block, smother, hook, pluck, jab, spear.

谢谢！

你好Chris，

你说的是太极拳的一些基本姿势forms/postures：

wave hands like clouds： 云手yun2shou3

single whip：单鞭dan1bian1

golden rooster stands on one leg：金鸡独立jin1ji1du2li4

carry tiger back to mountain：抱虎归山bao4hu3gui1shan1

monkey steals the peach：猿猴探果yuan2hou2tan4guo3

“我也喜欢知道说”应该说：我也希望xi1wang4知道怎么说

punch拳quan2, block挡dang3, smother抑yi4, hook钩gou1, pluck拔ba2, jab戳chuo1, spear叉cha.

Hi Grace. Can you explain the difference between 上线 and 网上?

Hi Chris,

上线is a verb，which means to connected to the Internet；while 网上can be kind of place，so you can say 在网上meaning on the Internet.

在线 means on-line.上网means to surf the Internet or access a network.

E.g.:A：你上线了吗？

     B：我马上就上。你在线吗？

     A: 我已经在网上了。

你喜欢在网上买东西吗？

我可以从网上下载音乐。

你家里可以上网吗？

我在公司不可以上网。

Hope it helps！

明白了！很好说法。

你好Chris，下面是那些短语的翻译：

server：服务器fu2wu4qi4；

reboot：重启chong2qi3；

crash：死机si3ji1；

programme：程序cheng2xu4；

system administrator：系统管理员xi4tong3guan3li3yuan2；

system engineer系统工程师xi4tong3gong1cheng2shi1；

backup：备份bei4fen4

希望对你有帮助。

Grace

Ah, so any kind of computer freeze or crash is 死机

Hi Grace. I don't have ability to enter Chinese text at work :(

How would I say:

"Does the luggage allowance include a sports bag?" (or ski bag/snowboard bag)

"How much is the excess baggage fee?"

"The mascot of Hokkaido is truly odd" (http://www.japannewbie.com/2006/11/30/morimakkori/)

I'll have some more soon ^^