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Typo in the pinyin, Expansion sentence " This picture is just too disgusting. I really can't look at it anymore." The pinyin has "really" in it:... Read more
Why can't people just... get along? This lesson is very on target and you guys have brought up some really good points about how 华侨, ABC's, BBC's, etc... Read more
Hi, I've noticed that I'm able to scroll to a characters+translation "dialogue description" when I listen to this lesson my iPod. I've also noti... Read more
Think of 小姐 as "Miss or Ms." Makes it much easier. But I was told in certain regions it can also refer to women who accompany men in the evening... Read more
We'd address young women, e.g. under 35 years old as 小姐/xiǎojiě. Often even if a relatively young woman is married, you can still call them xiǎojiě. Y... Read more
xiao3jie3 means "young unmarried lady" ? But can't it also mean a 50 year old married lady ? Read more
We called them "sleepy seeds" where I grew up. Also in Urban Dictionary, with 44 reviews (compared with 6 for "sleepy bugs" -- the idea of which gives... Read more
I also heard that Australian immigrants were the first to come to the Americas. They were killed off by the people we currently call "Native Americans... Read more
I was amazed how much different Nanjing was compared to Shanghai. Much more "Chinese". I will always remember walking up the steps to the Mausoleum, a... Read more
I can't learn chinese.... feel so bad... :( Read more