Lesson Comments

gina:   She's gone.  #!%&# ! "I took my buttocks and laughed till they dropped off." - I just love literal translations  :-... Read more

(Just went through the transcript in light of my newly-solid understanding; none of the 非常地～'s needed correcting after all.) Read more

Jenny,      Of course, grammar generally has less value for native speakers than for others, since the native speaker has heard... Read more

bodawei,     Diagram means to parse in a graphic way; there were conventional ways of writing the words on intersecting lines to s... Read more

    When I first listened to the dialog, I thought that the teacher meant "We're going to like it" when he said, "我們要喜歡它."  I... Read more

@chiongzibide Thanks for telling on me - I completed about four years of school in Queensland, including the last three, and I chose not to formall... Read more

Here are a few MDBG lookups on top of what Mike and others provided above. I prefer to use numerical pinyin, otherwise some of the diacritics disappea... Read more

I won't jump to conclusions but I wonder why the Google results are so different 2 weeks after I mention them on this page : "the trio is" Google re... Read more

matt, 铂金 （白金）好像不是人造的，你Google一下就知道 ：-）   Read more

Mikenotinjubei, I have a similar background. I could still diagram a sentence if I had to, but it is a skill that doesn't seem to be called for very... Read more