Lesson Comments

This is a puzzle, but on reflection, I think the problem we have here is that we are translating in our minds the English literal sense of "borrow" fo... Read more

Haha, that's a phrase resonating from my youth! Actually, I seem to remember it in a slightly different sense; one or two couples in a group with a si... Read more

I was not familiar with this either, but if I understand the phrase 被锁 to meant "to be locked (in or out)" in the passive sense, as 锁 is "to lock" in... Read more

how would we describe the german/english grammatical concept of "strong verbs" like ( write, writes, wrote, written, writing)? Read more

I agree that it's past tense here (borrowed) because of what you mentioned above. However, I'm not sure I understand what you're saying about 向. If yo... Read more

Haha; you show admirable restraint, referring to the maps as "funny", i.e. not making reference to those maps actually being "normal" i.e. with the A... Read more

I guess we'll never know :-) Read more

Dilu: I've just realized the reason for my ambivalence in putting my finger on exactly why I thought the usage was not quite right. It felt to me "cor... Read more

他今天又迟到了.The phrase "迟到了" here is past tense. The "了” at the end indicates that the action has already been completed. You're right that putting a "了"... Read more

Yes. Moreover, I think the omission of translation into Hanzi might have had an immediate practical point. Doesn't China have a filtering system on al... Read more