Lesson Comments
Hi svik and rjberki You are correct-- as it is currently used in the mainland, a 斤 is a half kilogram, 500 g. But the exact value of the jin... Read more
Hi bodawei and bababardwan The 儿 in the word "这儿" (zhe r 4) and that in 女儿 (nv3 er2 ) are two different things. The former one is merely a 儿话音,... Read more
bodawei, If that's the case,then you'll see what I mean about inconsistency.If it was following the pattern above it would be zhe4r . Read more
burly-girly, hahaha. But yes, it is all about context, tone and your delivery isn't it. And so much of learning to speak a language is mimicry, so if... Read more
@barbs your example 女儿 is a good one - 儿 is definitely a clear second tone in this case (emphasised by the ' stop) so it would be written nu3'er2.&... Read more
mateo ： ' 俺' 是中国方言，在中国的很多地方都有使用。 Read more
Raygo and bodawei, I think I'm just confused.Yeah,I always enter "er" to get the character 儿。I was referring to the proper way to represent this in... Read more
@zhenlijiang 天啊！ This does open a can of worms! All I can say that there are a lot of burly men in the city I lived in for a year who u... Read more
Isn't 灵璧 one of the "seven famous places" where collectable stones come from: in this case lingbi stones? A few months ago, I saw a documentary or som... Read more
Words from the discussion: 移动 yí dòng to move / movement / migration / mobile / portable 打开 dǎ kāi to open / to... Read more