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As someone born and raised in America, I find it extremely annoying that we do not use metric, or that the rest of the world does... I don't care whic... Read more

Hey granville, 你结婚的时候有几年了? nǐ jiéhūn deshíhou, yǒu jǐ nián le? Means something like "when you were married, how many years has it been". So, in... Read more

You can say, 他们在网上卖手机. The 在 here indicates where the selling is happening. Although 在 before a verb is similar to "-ing" in English, in this in... Read more

Here it is: 吹毛求疵 chuī máo qiú cī to blow apart the hairs on fur to discover a defect i.e. to nitpick Read more

I like this lesson how you have managed to have a comparison with china, so you were able to keep things and words relevent to china as well in the di... Read more

Yeah, that's right. You could also simply say, 意思差不多. Read more

Thank you, bababardwan. The email system is very important to us, so I really appreciate you taking the time to help. Read more

In Careffour I saw the cashiers all wearing red Chinese garments. 我在家樂福看過收銀員都穿著紅色的服裝。 Read more

just done it...took about a minute..maybe less Read more

@stevemisch The word for colleague is 同事 tóngshì. This is different from the word for comrade, 同志 tóngzhì. They do sound similar, but there's that sh... Read more