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Hi timslsm Chinese authorities have been making an effort to standardize Mandarin since the early 20th century, and there were a lot of characters... Read more

jjinfrance & zhenlijiang. Thanks for the help. Read more

Haha, don't worry, they know. ;) If I tried to simplify 重蹈覆辙 into 重蹈复辙 they'd notice, and mark it down. Which is probably why I notice these things... Read more

We're nerds in the best sense of the word! What can be cooler than language learning mixed with technology? It's like a really fun form of sociable ge... Read more

Thank you Jenny, Catherine and Sarah for the show :))) Yeah, this is very difficult for Chinese people, especially, children to explore something ne... Read more

To be clear, 绝症 means both incurable disease and terminal illness. (现代汉语词典's definition is as follows: "指现在无法治好的疾病". The Contemporary Standard's i... Read more

Thanks, that makes perfect sense. Since jù also means 'phrase', and huà can be translated as 'words', I guess we could interpret it as 'this group of... Read more

Here's how I see it: 句 is the measure word, and 话 is the noun. 话 means "language, words, speech", that sort of thing. The stuff of communication. 句, t... Read more

Great show- interesting and fun. I think the exam thing in China is very difficult for people in the Europe to understand. It is a real cultural diffe... Read more

Hi go_manly "话" doesn't mean "sentence", but "这句话" can indicate "a sentence". Read more