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Méi is used to negate actions that happen in the past. So "Zénme méi dǎdiànhuà gěi wǒ" means "why didn't you call me?" Bù negates verbs in simple pres... Read more
The dictionary gives second and forth tone. But in daily conversations, you will commonly hear "tong" pronounced as neutral tone. Read more
Another use of 完了 - wánle is to indicate something is complete- ly finished or used up. Maybe the most common is 卖完了- màiwánle... Read more
The words for undergraduate and masters (degrees) Connie said about halfway into the dialogue. I didn't know them before: undergraduate - běnkē - 本科... Read more
I'd put my money on 种 e.g. 这种过敏挺常见的。 you're right, we don't say 我有(一个)过敏 as Jenny said towards the end of the podcast. Read more
It seems guomin is being used as a verb everywhere but the last line which refers generically to allergies. Maybe it still doesnt have a measure word... Read more
another reason I think this lesson is good is that it points out through the multiple sentence pattern examples that there isn't a measure word for al... Read more
In sample sentence #4 the Chinese & English pronouns are different. Also the English translation for #12 is not right. Read more
We don't use measure words for "allergies" in Chinese. If you want to be specific about the types of allergies, you can say "我对......过敏”，e.g. 我对花粉、猫、花... Read more