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Well, my comment didn't seem to appear so I'll write it again :) @tal_ I find that, if you are inbetween skill levels yourself, it's best to do two... Read more
Hi ncmuck It seems to be a little too late, but let me say " 祝你生日快乐 " (zhu4ni2 sheng1ri4 kuai4le4, Happy Birthday to You). I also had "a happy birt... Read more
How would one say, "I am a pre-school (nursery school) student." Though honestly, my three year old would have difficulty saying that in English or Sp... Read more
Got a question or two The pdf mentions that 半夜 (ban4ye4) means both 'midnight' and 'the middle of the night'. I see you answered above that t... Read more
@renli3d, "也” is here because there is a context that 中川's father and "斯琴"'s brother have been turned into robots, so "also" is used here. Read more
Orkelm , welcome to the wonderful world of trying to understand spoken Chinese when they talk fast, have a touch of a dialect, or there's lots of back... Read more
About 喂 wei 2/4. Last time I was in China I heard a guy who always answered his phone using the 4th tone. I've heard that the 2nd tone sounds more fri... Read more
A question abou the expansion: 邮件 you2 jian4 is listed as meaning e-mail. Doesn't it mean normal (snail) mail? Or has the sense broadened to e-mail as... Read more
Wish we had this lesson 9 days earlier, it was my birthday! As a non-native English speaker, I too had difficulties with 'day' and 'date'. It is co... Read more
Just learn "xia4" as "next" (not as under or below, etc). This makes its use in time expressions very easy to remember. "Shang4" is then,... Read more