Lesson Comments

Although my non-Chinese girlfriend may not be forgiving of me exchanging her simply for language-learning reasons... Read more

Most of the time I've run into 其实， it is at the start of a sentence. So “其实这个主意很不错，但是做起来有点难” I think it falls under those words that are there t... Read more

The best is getting a Chinese boyfriend or girlfriend that is forgiving of your Chinese. Best if you're intermediate or so elementary, and you will se... Read more

Shrek was great in Chinese, pretty easy to understand and enjoyable as always. I'd say if you're intermediate and above you'll understand like 80% of... Read more

The point about reading what you are interested in is a good one. I bought 哈利波特 (Harry Potter) in Chinese because I thought it would be simpler t... Read more

For a minute, I thought you'd been trying to learn Chinese for 10 months, but because you were learning without characters, you'd inadvertently learne... Read more

Against most people's advice. i'm trying to learn without chinese characters. I seem to be doing well at the moment after 10 months, and i've already... Read more

Thanks, I was having a hard time with it, and your example just glued to my mind hahaha. Read more

whoa.... are the cool kids still saying bomb diggity? (I wouldn't know, as my insight into cutting edge coolness will not be around until 2015 or so). Read more

Thanks Xiao_Liang, I guess with the Newbie lessons being worked through again this will give me plenty of opportunity to comment on more up to date th... Read more