Lesson Comments
”都“ also has the meaning of "已经“， e.g. "都7点钟了” "it's already 7 o'clock". Just one of those contextual things! Read more
嗯, you've chosen some excellent examples and made me think about this. I guess when I said 'human involvement' I was really just considering the sente... Read more
Check out the Task I uploaded for this lesson! To Vera Zhang, 先生要买比萨。 Pizza is what he was buying. I got that word off Google Translate for Pizza.... Read more
Ok, I've looked at a large number of examples from Intermediate lessons, and it seems that indeed most examples were conveying negative situations. An... Read more
Ah, I get it! Thanks. ;-) Read more
Hi Tal - You just need a VPN with a UK IP address. Then you can fool the BBC iplayer that you are really in the UK and watch anything within 7 days of... Read more
My 2 fen: (1) The passive construction is much more common in English than "被 sentences" are in Chinese. (2) The 被 construction tends to be us... Read more
被 (bèi) indicates human involvement, a person's action. 厨房打扫了吗？(Chúfáng dǎsǎo le ma?) = Has the kitchen been cleaned? 厨房被(人)打扫了吗？(Chúfáng bèi (r... Read more
Great poem and great podcast! I would love to have more Chinese poem podcasts in the future. Read more