Lesson Comments
I definitely did as well! I remember thinking, "Wait, she couldn't have just said 离婚..." and then once David said 'married', I made the connection. Read more
CHINESEPOD: You kind of danced around the 貓屎咖啡 Māoshǐkāfēi citation (of different varieties) of coffee. Perhaps if you bring it up at the end of... Read more
Hello, If I had known about this lesson, my Mandarin adventure yesterday at the eyeglasses store in Cupertino, California would have been even... Read more
Good point baba, I guess I never think of 'sir', 'madam', 'miss', etc as sexist so was simply transplanting that view to the Chinese terms. I guess i... Read more
Also, I know "...but he's not my type" gets across the meaning of "...kěshì tā bù shì wǒ xǐhuān de lèixìng" b... Read more
I wasn't sure if it was the xiao [if that's being seen as condescending, belittling] in xiaojie or the xian in xiansheng [ I guess you could extrapola... Read more
Yes, I also appreciated Miss He's pronunciation. It's amazing the difference it makes to my listening comprehension when someone with a very clear, s... Read more
I'm also not sure where the sexism lies in any of those three terms of address. I'm personally much more concerned about the ageist implications - I... Read more
Does anyone think that 已婚 sounds a bit like 离婚? For a second, I thought she said the latter. Read more
Maybe one guy has to to put the tiles together for the other one. After all, if you spent an hour setting them up, you'd know where all the matching t... Read more