Lesson Comments
@Xiaophil Chinese makes a lot of use of grammatical aspect : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_aspect This means that a lot of things... Read more
看起来在中国年轻男人们真乖的， 毕业十年后，他们在酒吧还要完儿来数青蛙。西方世界的男人去酒吧经常打算只泡妞好。 Read more
siteng, I did think of looking up jinx at the time,but didn't in the end. mdbg has 蛊祝 for to place a jinx. But the full expression in English... Read more
@Connie and Changye 多谢！ @light487, I'll give it a try and maybe Changye or Connie can correct me... 今年二月我到中国去旅行了。我先在上海登陆了。从上海我到Wuhan, Cheng... Read more
janmusi-- 哈哈！ I also name characters... 常 is d'Artagnan, 显 is Froggy Read more
I'm uncomfortable with" 构成 " in the following sentence: 血液 是 在 心脏 和 血管 构成 的 管道 中 流动 的, translated as "The heart and the blood vessels... Read more
Maybe it could be used when describing a bunch of places that you went to, like when I went around China on my trip. Like: I started in Shanghai, t... Read more
Painkillers and epidural clearly prove that Confucius was wrong in the analects. ;o) 小不忍则乱大谋 (lack of forbearance in small matters upsets great p... Read more
Nor is it common in the US (<10% of births is what I've heard), but I wonder if it's even less so in China. Thanks for the clarification, ptpete... Read more
I have to go and see 侯孝贤's Flowers of Shanghai 《海上花》 again, because when I did I was really tired and could only get a lousy seat in the t... Read more