Lesson Comments
腰 refers to the lower back, or the 'small of the back', which is basically what the waist is. Read more
Hi Dominic, I think you heard correctly: 那块小铁皮 (that small sheet/plate of metal). Read more
我问问一下。男人求婚会说 你愿意嫁给我吗. 如果是女孩求婚，她会说什么？ 当然实际上，有很少这个情况，但是如果有，她说？？ Read more
Just because I feel the need to nitpick a 4-year-old lesson, it's a bit odd that 耐烦 is listed in the Vocab list as meaning patient, when the lesson em... Read more
对话在7:16左右: John: 四五万?! David: 对，就是那块 ... 。 David说了什么？听起来我不太清楚，我只是听得 “xiao tie pi” 或者 "xiao qie pi"。 谢谢！ Read more
Expansion sentence 2b uses the word 腰 (yao1) which the hover-over pop-up translates as waist. However, the sentence translation itself uses back... Read more
Is the speed of the Expansion sentences for this lesson intentionally slower? I'm not complaining since it was nice to understand them all first... Read more
我有一个问题。关于这个“上牌照”和“上牌”。。。让我想起来一个情况。。当聊天跟中国人有的时候他们的讲话太快所以我可以说“请慢慢说”，可是有的时候这样的简称【比如“上牌”】给我一个问题因为很多的同音，所以没有简称的说法多容易理解，多清楚。。怎么要求请不用简称的说法？ Read more
You said in the podcast that the use of 名 as a measure word for 军人 elevates the status of 军人 over 兵. I wonder, can you use 名 for other p... Read more
当寻找其他的信息碰到 这个 二十五前常用性和名。 Ran into this while looking for something else. The 25 most commonly used surnames and given names in China, by year, ove... Read more