Lesson Comments
Why is it that "你不在北京？" does not end with 吗？It could be mistaken as a statement as there are no other words in the sentence that imply a question. Read more
@tvan, If we can sexy up bikes to be the new status symbol, I reckon many Chinese would go back to 2 wheels. Paging Don Draper from Mad Men. Read more
@dennisbracy, Great to hear from the man himself. A few days ago, a report on CNN said that investing in clean energy research would be a lot cheap... Read more
@ptsmith, Yes, it's common for city names to end with 州, because 州 means 'state'. 广州/guang3 zhou1, 苏州/su1 zhou1, 杭州/hang2 zhou1 just to name a few... Read more
@joeborn, The use of 的 after adjectives is mainly related to the nature of the adjective rather than the length (how many words/syllables). The natu... Read more
I've been listening to the PWP in order and just got to this one. I was so sad to hear that you weren't making anymore of them! I loved yo... Read more
“短袜的傀儡”，闻所未闻。 Read more
I've noticed many city names end in -zhou 州 (such as Guanzhou or my favorite Suzhou). Is there a common meaning to this character? Read more
I'm curious to know what the origin of the "Canton" is. I don't think this is a Chinese word, or a Cantonese word or anything like that. Where is it f... Read more