Lesson Comments

Thank you for the pinyin. It does help to get the point across for those of us (me) who are severely character challenged. Read more

I see what you are saying. No pun intended. Yes. I am sometimes a parrot and can say the word but don't have a concrete or "picture" of the word in... Read more

AMC... Thanks for the tip. I will venture a little further into now that I have a path. Appreciate the sharing. Just an aside: I am a former... Read more

Here is a transcript of this lesson (courtesy of Richy): Word Version PDF Version This is one of the easier Intermediates, and would be a go... Read more

I think this is a very important point. In the expansion section the diction, pace and rhythm of the sentence must be monitored. After all, if you h... Read more

I think you're on the right track, but I'm pretty sure 刊 itself is totally phonetic. The 说文解字 entry for it is: 剟也从刀干声, which is saying that it means 剟... Read more

Some of Jenny's vocabulary from the podcast: chūhàn (出汗) to sweat / to perspire cíyŭ (词语) word dàchéngshì (... Read more

go_manly, I answer with a little trepidation as you 总 ask good questions and I've been known to stuff it up on more than one occasion, but I guess... Read more

Christine，多谢。。很好的故事。。这个孩子看法很典型。。我很喜欢孩子们的看法 Read more

刊。。caught my eye because it's a pretty simple character and I could see that 干 must be the phonetic [and it's less common to have it on the left I thi... Read more