Lesson Comments

'Why this change post-1949?' Something to do with the CCP rhetoric on sexual equality? I was quite surprised to hear this myself and haven't double... Read more

' am equally skeptical of dismissing them just on the basis of not having heard them.' This has raised a lot of interesting points, for me anyway.... Read more

Hi Bodawei, that's what I thought, that she would be Xu Taitai. I didn't know that women began keeping their own family names only post-1949. Why this... Read more

it would be nice if some other people listen to this dialogue and tell me if what you hear, tíng or qíng. I'm definitely hearing qíng Read more

it's not the end of the word, it's the beginning of the word (the intial sound). It definitely sounds like a "q" sound, rather than a "t" sound. I'm... Read more

谢谢jiaojie。有什么情况下说‘别+v+n+了’读起来正常，还是一般都是 ‘别+v+了+n’ 的结构？ 所以这里的状态‘想儿子了’是暂时的状态吗？有的时候想儿子，有的时候不想儿子， 想儿子了就来看看，是这个状态对吧？ 没有 了 也没有‘的时候’就说 ‘想儿子就来看... Read more

一个句子里有两个动词 了放在第二个动词后面时，这两个动词都已经完成了吗？ 可以举几个例子吗？ 我刚举了一个例子但觉得读起来比较奇怪 ‘我吃饭回家了’？ Read more

I can clarify that it is only post-1949 that women have kept their own family names after marriage. Prior to that they would take their husband's name... Read more

Ok Baba Real data. (We should all go and have a rest after this.) I checked two places nearest to where I live:- 1. Name: 巧思. Closest to wh... Read more

Tom and Jerry, Ren n Stimpy, you make me work hard Baba. I should learn not to open my big mouth. :) But (here I go again, can't help myself) I th... Read more