Lesson Comments
So it's 说生活的话，应该说“中”, is it, rather than “里”? It does seem to me like the "life" in 在我生活中，吃过很多苦。 is different from the 日常生活 phil2010 asks about, b... Read more
Hi alexlexilu, Ciboule and Echalotte are totally different plants. The Ciboule is sometimes called Cive or even Ciboulette (it's a mistake).... Read more
Hi barto Here are statistics, which I've just found on the Net, about words number/coverage ratio for some languages. Please be noted that I don't... Read more
yes it is! I think that's one of the reasons it's much easier than your beautiful language! I love Japanese, but it's a lot harder, just because of vo... Read more
啊！很有用的！I probably just made up a weird sentence. Sometimes I forget the KISS method of communication. Keep It Simple, Stupid! Actually, this often app... Read more
How do you read (pronounce) this character? I was taught is 这个字怎么念？ zhè ge zì zěnme niàn? Read more
> vocabulary poor language. That's a piece of good news for us foreign learners of Mandarin! Read more
Yeah, 反切 is really a great invention! If it were not for 反切, Chinese phonologists would have had more difficulty reconstructing ancient readings of Ch... Read more
Chinese as a spoken language is a sound, and hence, vocabulary poor language. Not to mention the fact that Putonghua is a very, very young language wi... Read more
Like a lot of research I think this tells only part of the story - but I would like to know what 'coverage' is, and how it is measured? Somewhere els... Read more