Lesson Comments
John, I did send a message to CPod asking them to translate such messages as Pinyin & English so that people like me can read them. My Chinese charact... Read more
I'll just clarify #9 - about the 'bitter' vegetable; then they refer to it as 'qing cai'. (This '18 oddities' seems to have been written by a foreign... Read more
My thoughts: Embarrassing? A bit Hollywood? A touristy gambit? Evidence that much of the rest of China (the main audience) thinks Yunnan is a (back... Read more
Great lesson. It would be nice, as indicated above, to see this idea evolve into a storyline for the likes of NGOs and even more peripheral orga... Read more
This maybe refers to the popularity of karaoke. ;-) Maybe this is not peculiar to Yunnan - Chinese people I know are much more prone to sin... Read more
When you use the wrong character there's a term for it: 白字. I always loved this term. My misuse of 再 for 在 is a good example. Same tone, same pronounc... Read more
So, what is the official translation of the phrase (in the movies): "I have a bad feeling about this" ? Read more