Lesson Comments

The topic tags are inefficient, eg "announcement" doesn't throw up any other lesson, although I remember at least one about subway announcements and o... Read more

Yes! 存钱 (cúnqián) is perfect (informal) Chinese. 商家服务 (shāngjiā fúwù) sounds right to me, but I've never worked in a bank. :P Read more

哇，很奇怪！我刚查了文林，“坐”有这样一个定义：“put (a pan, pot, kettle, etc.) on a fire” Read more

前不久我就遇到过一个南北差异上的问题。我的室友是个北方人。有一天，她对我说：“帮我zuò一壶水。”我愣了好半天，也不知道她说的是什么。我心想，我会做饭，做菜，但我不会做水啊。水本来就有的，不用我去创造啊。不过我猜她可能是让我帮她烧一壶水吧。 后来我们讨论了这个问... Read more

Great lesson. So if 取款 qǔkuǎn is the more formal written way of saying 取钱 qǔqián, would it be acceptable in spoken Chinese to say 存钱 c&u... Read more

Since this is 请问, how do I say to be about? For example: What is the book about? It's about a man, who goes off on an adventure. 谢谢大家！ Read more

The first time I tried to withdraw money in China it failed for some reason. The ATM said something like "Could not complete the transaction. Would yo... Read more

Okay, we can see it is legit in a dictionary sense. Thanks John and everyone else. But I wonder if any normal native English speakers use 'advice'.... Read more

Hey, The sentence is correct--there actually are supposed to be that many 了‘s in that sentence. It's not necessary to use so many 了's, but it's sti... Read more

Cheers mate. Occasionally when I tell this one to Chinese friends, I will say: 草原上又来了一群狼。猜一种水果 (Cǎoyuán shàng yòu láile yī qún láng. Cāi yīzhǒng sh... Read more