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The word "drivel" has been overused and I'm rather bored of it. Please pick one of the following options: babble , balderdash, blather, bunk, dou... Read more

Thanks changye, I hadn't realised that the 是 could be left out, so I didn't recognise the shi...de  structure. It makes sense now that I do.... Read more

very good conversation Read more

Hi raygo and zhenlijiang Your comments are too "artistic" to me, hehe. Actually you don't have many opportunities to see the word "抽象" in everyday... Read more

Hi chris I don't think that 真很漂亮 and 真非常漂亮 are natural Chinese. I don't know why, but perhaps two consecutive (similar) adverbs, 真+很 (or 真+非常), make... Read more

Thanks Changye. However, this isn't quite my question. My question specifically is when we should use "zhen1" on its own and when we need to use it... Read more

Hi chris You can say 真的很漂亮 and 真的非常漂亮, for example. “真的” works as "really" in English, so 真的非常漂亮 means "really very beautiful". Read more

Let me wipe the drivel off my chin and say " Thank You Changye" for making that clearer. Read more

Grammar question - I am confused by section 5 of the Expansion. I always thought that "zhen1 de" needed to be followed by a word such as "hen3" or "f... Read more

One of my students told me that the easiest way to say the sound, is the /j/ sound in 'you', so 'ren' would sound more like 'yen'. Read more