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in chinese, do they have a different term for a headhunting company and a recruitment firm? Read more

re: "putting people off or making them angry when I try to communicate in my substandard Chinese" Examples, please! I think I have done the same by... Read more

Hi mark, I agree. For me, "sleeping in" is 8 AM. I always feel the day is lost if I sleep longer than that. But the rest of my family is different.... Read more

No, kimiik, luckily I wasn't! The people in the ballet class were somewhere between 25 and 60 of age, some of them more or less beginners with ballet... Read more

Ba Jin wrote in his novel 秋 (1940) about a situation in which the servant of fifth brother was blamed for an offense to the family that... Read more

hello,everybody...i'm new here,i like chinesepod... Read more

After some serious research, it turns out foreign parents have many less options than I realized. This 8 year old article is still pretty accurate, a... Read more

There are quite a few situations where "的" is not required even though the standard rule would suggest that it is; this is one of those situations. :... Read more

so can you use 向 to say things like "please say hello to your family for me"? can you also say things like "say happy birthday to Dad for me" 向爸爸说生日快... Read more

I disagreed with this guy's sentiment, but if his comment was trolling I guess I really don't understand the term. Read more