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Hey this is interesting...having a topic covered in a recent Advanced lesson followed shortly after by it being covered in an Ellie lesson. I don't se... Read more
This just comes down to how you interpret/use the word 'tired'. In the context of being ready for bed, tired and sleepy are interchangeable in my book... Read more
啊 and 嗯 are also very frequent in qq chats, Read more
In this expansion I wonder if the phrase 晚上 不 困 should be translated as 'not tired'. It seems a more accurate would be 'I am not sleepy at... Read more
Have to be careful about learning to use "en" -- a Chinese friend gets annoyed with me now when I use it but I didn't really understand everything she... Read more
damn, you weren't kidding about how ambiguous that word is. I hope Chinese language doesn't keep going into this direction of new and strange words .... Read more
Btw, 黑天 is also the chinese name of Krishna (the hinduist deity) which seems to symbolize something bad in Buddhism. Read more
It was said in the discussion of the dialog that 白天 bai2tian1 is used for daytime but 黑天 hei1tian1 is not used for night time, yet both are in my... Read more
Yeah, 黑天 is very seldom used to mean 'night'. The use of of 黑 with 天 is most common as a verb, i.e.: 天快黑了, 'it will be dark out soon'. Read more