Lesson Comments
@calicartel, "草纸" and "纸草" are the same here. I googled and found 纸草 is made from a kind of water plant. So, I doubt if the papyrus is green or... Read more
The MDBG gives " 纸草 zhi3 cao3 = papyrus" In the dialogue we have " 草纸 = paper". Are we actually talking about papyrus in both cases? It ma... Read more
hutudan said "But now that you mention it, why throw something like that into a lesson dialogue without providing any basis or evidence?"... Read more
Firstly, John said that the 's' is pronounced exactly the same as in English. Not so. In English the hiss of 's' is pronounced right in the front of... Read more
There are native English speakers who have trouble pronouncing the letter 'z'! :-) [It is of course pronounced 'zed' outside North America... Read more
fryewiththat, I concur with Bababardwan. "Tze tze" is a loanword in English, and there are native English speakers that have trouble pronouncing th... Read more
jheitz, Wow, you have quite a talent for distinguishing phonetic features! The short answer to your question is yes. We didn't get into the d... Read more
go_manly, True, perhaps "exactly" was a bit of an exaggeration. The important thing is that if you were to reproduce this "ts" sound exactly and us... Read more