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Hi bodawei That's only a tip of the iceberg. In China, the ability of a bureaucrat is measured by the amount of money he embezzled. This is not a jo... Read more

@dubyruby 我以为“这两天”不一定是 "two days", 而是广泛一点： "a few days", 比如，”这两天，我忙死了“ (I've been really busy these last few days/recently)... Read more

I remember every time we visit our relatives during the spring festival, for children or youngers, when the hardest time is the first five minutes. Yo... Read more

The breakdown of this character 亲 meaning relative is interesting.The top half has 立。。meaning to stand or set up,and the bottom half děng [can't seem... Read more

In China, auditors discovered that 234.7 billion yuan (A$38.5bn) disappeared from public funds in the first 11 months of this year, state media has re... Read more

ji_li, If someone's mother and father don't live together, you can ask: 你还是跟你 妈妈/爸爸 住在一起吗？ Read more

My computer lost everything of my 2009 because of some hardware problem.such a fresh new start! zai4jian4, wo3 de 2009! ni3hao3, wo3 de 2010! Read more

@Changye, actually Danish is a good idea: Dutch is too easy for me :-). @all I wrote a little update about the test in a seperate thread , it is a... Read more

Thank you dunderklumpen. So much to learn, not enough hours in a day. I think it would be helpful if somehow the patterns could be catalogued, and the... Read more

Chinese and English speakers think of time differently. In Chinese the past is 上 shang4 and the future is 下 xia3. It helps me to think of a calenda... Read more