Lesson Comments
Thanks for your insightful explanations! It helps me to win the everlasting fight with the Chinese sentence structures and omissions ... I will al... Read more
However, very romantic ... Read more
Always a boy next to a girl? I thought that in Chinese classrooms boys and girls are more separated, e.g. boys on the left, girls on the right side... Read more
Ok, I have a suggestion for a song to go over, 《芙蓉姐夫》. I'm not sure how popular 王蓉 is but she is a bit more of a rocker than most Chinese singer... Read more
Would the newest CPod user (paulsoong) please consider changing their avatar. I couldn't bear the thought of having two monkey's on CPod. Read more
No, it is not a discrepancy between dictionaries and real speech. Rather it is one of the cases where tones change in context. Two third tones are h... Read more
No matter how many times I listen to 马甲, I hear ma3jia2, even though the vocab entry gives it two 3rd tone marks. Is this one of those cases where the... Read more
well the way some chinese pronounce the "ng" sound at the end (especially people from Shanghai it seems) you can't really here the "g" at the end of t... Read more
You are probably wise to say "a" correct pronunciation, rather than "the" correct pronunciation. My Mandarin Popup dictionary says that "ling1" is th... Read more
As you say, ma2jia3 is what I would expect to hear according to tone sandhi, but not what I'm hearing. I'm hearing ma3jia2. Read more