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Posted on: Actually
On January 26 at 2:14 AM by lujiaojie

For example, 我其实不是这样想的。or 其实我不是这样想的。都可以。 Read more

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On January 26 at 2:04 AM by catherinem

This is quite difficult, but I would think of it more as a transition from upper intermediate to advanced. We have been trying to do "high" intermedia... Read more

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On January 26 at 1:51 AM by connie

I said, 英文太搞了。Yīngwén tài gǎo le. "搞" has the meaning of too complicated. It's very colloquial. Read more

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Posted on: Tai Chi
On January 26 at 1:46 AM by connie

"非...不可"的意思是"一定要...",语气很强烈。 "我非报仇不可。"意思相当于:我一定要报仇。 Read more

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Posted on: Marco Polo in China
On January 26 at 1:30 AM by svik

There is the saying that anything processed by human memory is fiction. :) The book by Wood was very interesting. I have also read, in recent years... Read more

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Posted on: Marco Polo in China
On January 26 at 12:11 AM by bababardwan

"huge number omissions" ..that's covered under his deathbed quote: "I do not tell half of what I saw because no one would have believed me." Read more

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Posted on: Marco Polo in China
On January 25 at 11:34 PM by egret

Yes. There was also a book a decade or so ago by Frances Wood who was head Chinese Reader at the British Library called Did Marco Polo go to China? -... Read more

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Posted on: Marco Polo in China
On January 25 at 11:19 PM by egret

There is quite a famous poem by Samuel Coleridge - Kubla Khan : In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree :Where Alph, the sacred... Read more

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Posted on: I Changed My Mind
On January 25 at 11:08 PM by coldwriter

I enjoy 随便。 在北京的时候我和朋友们都常用。 Read more

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On January 25 at 9:58 PM by modernnomad

Hope this helps! 爷爷yéye: paternal grandfather 奶奶nǎinai: paternal grandmother 外公wàigōng: maternal grandfather 外婆wàipó:... Read more