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Personally, I like to use 哪里哪里 for deflecting compliments but, knowing that it often, as you say, marks you as a complete newbie fresh off the boat/je... Read more
@question: 输 vs 偷.... this has got me thinking. The first means "to lose" and the second means "to steal". The right-hand side of th... Read more
Actually, I heard the same thing around 那里，那里 also just 3 days ago. This was from a Nepalese guy studying at at Chinese university. Only foreigner... Read more
I think I have come across a lot of things through Chinese Pod that foreigners seem to learn from textbooks as being "common Chinese phrases" from whe... Read more
收 is as you said, receiving something concrete like a gift, an email or letter. 受 is more abstract like praise, appreciation, influence, suffering, il... Read more
There is also the black market of motobike taxis. Read more
"I always thought it was "pearler", as in a play on the word pearl" yeah, I knew you could spell it either way, but it is precisely for the reason... Read more
“果然, Australian slang. Marvellous stuff. Keep up the evolutionary work down there chaps. Sounds like your doing a splendid job.” lol :) " I kno... Read more
呸。看起来并不像一个卫生的地方存放餐具. Read more
Sorry to raise again, but any chance we can go back to the old-style PDFs - it's been quite a while since the technical problems that caused the chang... Read more