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The expansion and audio are fixed! Read more
Are you talking about the second sentence in the dialogue? 你叫什么名字？ (Nǐ jiào shénme míngzi?) There's no "ma" because it's not a yes/no question.... Read more
Yes, you are correct about 老头. Surname+同志 means "comrade X". Read more
靓女(liàngnǚ) means 美女 in Cantonese. 靓 means pretty. Read more
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We say similarly repetitive things in English, like "due to natural causes." You can't just say "由於天氣." As for exactly why, I'll let the native sp... Read more
Steve, Glad you find it useful! I point it out precisely because I myself have found this kind of help useful in my own studies. Read more
Could one say "xiǎng zěnme dōu..." for "however 'one' thinks" as an example of the pattern "verb - question word - dōu..." John talks about in th... Read more
B's 3rd discourse in the dialogue has an error in the next-to-last pop-up box where it should be 'hái' rather than 'huái'. Read more
Hi! Good questions. For 加班 (jiābān), the "have to" was added in to make the translation smoother. In English, we usually say "have to work overti... Read more