Lesson Comments
Oops, I forgot to put in the quotes. The ratio is still in favour of 中文 over 普通话, but by nowhere near as much. The numbers are 88700 to 17400. That's... Read more
If you Google 你会说中文吗 (Nǐ huì shuō Zhōngwén ma) you get 28.2 million hits. If instead you Google 你会普通话文吗 (Nǐ huì shuō Pǔtōnghuà ma) you only get 333... Read more
alexlexilu, here is a nice tutorial on -起来 , for starters. Much of the discussion takes place in Chinese, but Jiaojie's outline is worth a look in an... Read more
Very interesting, I did not think of that. Perhaps you are right. It would make sense if in the later lessons they taught what is more commonly said.... Read more
Isn't what you're suggesting the same as teaching a foreigner to say 'Hi' without teaching them 'Hello' ? Or 'Morning' without 'Good Morning'. Or 'By... Read more
Yeah, I'm just surprised that they would teach a phrase that is seldomly used anymore. It wouldn't make sense to learn greetings/phrases only to be co... Read more
This was probably answered before, but I have been corrected several times that saying: "Wo hui shuo zhongwen" or using zhongwen like that is incorrec... Read more
lujiaojie thank you so much for the advice on 鸣 and 响 - I appreciate that. I try to be concious of the limitations of dictionaries but we learners... Read more