Lesson Comments
Okiedoke, finally all I have to say to you is: whatever! I am now thoroughly bored by this conversation and have no interest in jumping through hoop... Read more
mark, thanks for your response. I know very well how long you have been a user here, much longer than me, so I know what a gent you are, how straightf... Read more
老婆 and 老公 are very common to use even when you're just dating someone. I often saw my high school kids using 老公 and 老婆 while texting their boyfriend o... Read more
I hear middle aged women using the term a lot, especially in the Shanghai dialect. My cleaning 阿姨 always addresses me as 小姑娘 and my boyfriend's mom al... Read more
姑娘 is an older term, so its a little out of place, which is why one friend said using it was fun, and another told you not to use it ;) It is used... Read more
That's something done to make the modern sport/dance forms look pretty - historically swords were also intended for practical use, and they would not... Read more
It seems like there are lots of different opinions on this. In Shanghai, a friend called a woman in a bakery xiǎo gūniang 小姑娘. I &... Read more
how about 老婆 vs. 太太? When I was in Shengzhen, the waitress were being called xiaojie and when I was in Beijing, I mostly heard fuwuyuan. Read more
This is basically what I did for the year I lived there. It was a very old apartment and everyone except me shared the kitchen on the first floor, so... Read more
Jenny 说的最后一句，“到Chinese Pod diǎnkàng? 来问，” ”diǎnkàng“是什么意思？ Read more