Lesson Comments

This one strikes me as odd.  Is there a 不 where there shouldn't be? 他 那 个 人 性格 很 极端 ， 他 得不到 的 东西 ， 别人 也 休想 得到 Read more

Having spent quite a bit of time in Hong Kong over the years, I'd say Kongers are the fondest of using imported/mongrel vocabulary, with the habit spi... Read more

Grambers and Chris It is intriguing where these words come from, how they travel, and who uses them. There is a related category - newly created wo... Read more

The written form is always the same, just as you wrote it. The standard pronunciation, or at least the pronunciation you'll find in a dictionary is nǎ... Read more

You've asked one Fujianese, I've asked two Cantonese. I think we can say with some assurance that southerns are probably less likely to be fond of thi... Read more

Good point on the adjectives vs verbs, my example was rather missing the point, I just remember somebody making an observation to me that English does... Read more

OK, but I think it stands to reason that it's more likely you are going to have a greater variety of adjectives to describe attributes (which would se... Read more

I was studying an expansion sentence over the recent holidays and I'm sure I remember it having all three of those terms for shopping in the same sent... Read more

Tragically 'hip', I'd say:) Read more

Yeah, it does seem that there are enough words, but they are subtly different; 逛街 for example specifically means *not* shopping ... :), 购物 is formal,... Read more