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Hi Bodawei, you've preempted much of the comment I was just finishing up, brought up interesting, and welcome I would say, ideas to answer your own qu... Read more

China was supposed to change and become more liberal when it became a more active participant in the world economy. Funny thing though, the world arou... Read more

What kind of accent did Jia Yan have? Read more

The taxi case: so I was talking about the same event as zhong_bide (I was a foreign passenger in a taxi driven by a Chinese person, and the other car... Read more

Here's another example of implied/understood words. Just like in English, if I'm holding up some things, I wouldn't necessarily say "Are all of t... Read more

Often times, we shouldn't translate sentences word-for-word. Also, 你們 nǐmen is like the "understood you" in English. For example: "Open your book... Read more

You're imagining it. ;-) Read more

>>>I'm really enjoying these intermediate lectures. The dialogues aren't very hard, but I get a lot out of Jenny's speaking almost entirely i... Read more

Hi bertson, thought I'd help you out with your questions, hope my answers will help. In the sentence above, you could translate it as "must", but 要... Read more

The comparison structure is fine, but you don't say 知道 in reference to language ability in Chinese. You could replace it with 好 for a simple correcti... Read more