Lesson Comments

We've been in Shanghai for about two weeks and we see on average an accident ever other day.  Mostly motorcycles and fenderbenders, not people.&n... Read more

I really like Ghirardelli chocolate. I have never tried their dark varieties but will when I have a chance. Their standard bars are delicious. The gia... Read more

I was looking at the expansion and found a small mistake in the translation: 他 已经 两 天 没有 睡觉 了 。 ( She hasn't slept in two days. ) She sho... Read more

Hi jinkeli I think you might be saying that the 大刀 is not as substantial as a meat cleaver in the US - doesn't surprise me, a lot of tools in China... Read more

I maintain that a cleaver is a distintly different tool than the 'chinese knife' 菜刀' and though we westerners might use a caidao like a cleaver, that... Read more

Hello. I am happy to write to you as i saw your profile today at chinesepod.com and like it, however am Esther by name, i hope you are fine, i will li... Read more

One of my favorite China stories is riding with a friend in his Jeep up the side of a mountain near 长白山. The road kept twisting, and every time we wou... Read more

Ubiquitous in the US perhaps - I hadn't heard it before I went there, I think. Read more

"never heard the word 'crosswalk' before" - now thats tough to imagine. Ive heard them called zebra crossings as well - a reference to the painted whi... Read more

Thanks the.niceplace I was confused about this but having heard the qingwen lesson, it has now fallen in place. Read more