Lesson Comments

Thanks for this lesson; the vocabulary is very useful and timely. Often I have to write a few paragraphs on what is happening in my life for class.... Read more

打飞机 means masturbate， 不厚道的笑着飘走了。 Read more

this is still funny. Read more

bodawei -- I agree with you, even as a learner I greatly prefer "real Chinese" to transliterations. I also want to be clear that I'm not suggesting th... Read more

yep and they insist Taipei is just a temporary capital, until the Republic of China (中華民國）gets the Mainland back and reestablish Nanjing as the capita... Read more

I have two classmates from Taiwan in the same class. One, if you even want to talk to him about the weather in China, he'll say, "I'm not Chinese, I'... Read more

I think 西班牙 isn't too bad a transliteration for Espana. (Sorry, no swishy mark.) But maybe that is because I don't speak Spanish. But it sounds closer... Read more

I said 金山 to a Chinese person here in China once, (didn't know about the 旧 at the time) and it took the person a second to get it. I assumed it was my... Read more

brendaninaus, Yes, you're right. Sometime in the 70's Taiwan did not compete in the Olympic games because the other countries decided to only recogni... Read more

'a fairly accurate transliteration of the "official" local name of the city.' I think that transliterations of city names are kinda fun for native... Read more