Lesson Comments
Hi Chris, yeah I was also talking from experience. Our flat is 6 years old and the neighbour just spent 6 months re-building it, including removing ev... Read more
Great info. Thanks! Read more
I like John's twilight zone comments - it does raise interesting cultural things. Out here in Bizarro China (RJ's words, not mine) your neighbours are... Read more
It's funny, looking at the title of this lesson has made me realise that I generally barely notice anymore the spelling differences between US and Bri... Read more
I can attest to that Bodawei. Sadly they do this complete gutting (whats wrong with a simple lick of paint?!) with no concern or thought for those po... Read more
I think it means, if this were a typical cultural situation, then this would be the cookie-cutter (or cake shaper) polite lexical formula that you wou... Read more
On the 1st matter (and sorry I haven't listened yet) this is a 是 。。。的 sentence and is probably delivered with a rising intonation. If intonation doe... Read more
请问, "打扰" 跟 "麻烦" 有什么区别 ? 比如在 expansion 的这个 句子: 不好意思，打扰一下，你们知道邮局在哪儿吗？ 可不可以使用麻烦代替打扰 ? Maybe it's just in this context. 还有一个问题: 如果邻居是对面的 (the door in fro... Read more
The average apartment building seems to last 20 - 25 years at most in Chinese cities; I wish I had data to support this but I am very observant. :)... Read more
Hi Mark, I agree with wotingyu, but also my take was that the cake giving never happens (who would do that here? They borrowed from the West for fun)... Read more