Lesson Comments
Becker and Fagen weren't called Starkweather and Manson because they killed people. Ok, i'll stop. Read more
yikes. I suppose i'm just supposed to know that when people say, "chūmén shì jì de guān kōng tiáo (when leaving the room, remember to turn off the ai... Read more
"Female masseuse" has 18.200 results on Google. "Male masseuse" has 10.600 results on Google. ;o) Read more
is 自扶梯 a regional word ? Because I mentioned it to a couple of my Taiwanese friends and they said they've never heard this word before. Are there... Read more
do you mean that Hong Kongers call escalators 電梯， or elevators/lifts 電梯？ Or did you mean Hong Kongers call both elevators and escalators 電梯 ？ Read more
Curiously, this mistake is allover the podcast (audio and text). "Female masseuse" doesn't make any sense. A masseuse is a woman who performs ma... Read more
对不起，你好像听错了。记得吧，汉语是他们的母语，对于他们来讲“公交”和“公江”之差异非常大，不会随意搞错。像我要说bus的时候无疑地说blart一样罕见。:) Read more
I think we (Americans) call the purely horizontal ones "moving walkways" as well. Though I think we say "moving sidewalk," too. When I was in Hong... Read more
Ahh interesting :) Thanks Connie! :) Read more
I have been taught that escalator is 电扶梯 -- diànfútī, by a teacher who's from Taiwan. One day (in Chinese, of course) I had to describe my whole... Read more