Lesson Comments
I really love the teacher's voice (number D)... 沈老师 I can't remember hearing her before... please put her on again. Read more
This was helpful, but I thought I would finally learn Chinese rank structure. It's not clear to me that the ways that a Chinese person would refer to... Read more
LuXun's thoughts on traveling throughout East Asia aren't related to this discussion. Nothing can be done about the past (in terms of foreign word... Read more
"I guess English is an extremely poor language by your standards. It really is a bastard language." I agree with you : ) Read more
right, this is true. In addition to the languages that you mentioned, there are also many other languages from which English has imported words.... Read more
hey mate, I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one. We have different views on the subject, and neither of our views on this matte... Read more
Borrowing from other languages has over a thousand years of precedent in Chinese Language. For one thing, most of the Buddhist terminology is borrowe... Read more
I was told by a linguist, many years ago, that the English language is (roughly) evenly mixed between German derived words and French derived words wi... Read more
The problem is that languages aren't static. They change over time, and some of those changes occur as a result of contact with other languages. I str... Read more
So in Canada do we have a 总理 or a 首相? And for each provinces? Someone in Canada can tell me... And how do you call the Queen Elizabeth / prince Will... Read more