User Comments - Aileen12

Posted on: Describing Travels

Jenny pronounced “朋友” （peng 2 you 3） as “pen 2 you 3”.

But some content is casual talk which isn’t related to the content much.

Posted on: Finding an Apartment

你要看吗？better use 你要参观一下吗？

Posted on: Useful Phrases 2

Thanks for your audio.

Posted on: How to use 要...了

In 2:41, the pinyin for “时候” (shi 2 hou 5) isn’t “shi 2 hou 4”.

Posted on: Do you drink hot water? 你今天喝热开水了吗？

This topic is quite nice, because many foreigners don’t understand this “Hot-water” culture.

Actually, foreigners don’t drink “凉白开’, they drink unboiled water. “凉白开” refers to cold boiling water. But they don’t boil the water first, so you cant say they drink “凉白开”.

凉开水=cold boiling water, 温开水=warm boiling water, all of them use boiling water. Thanks for your nice video. This is a very good one.

Posted on: Explaining Your Occupation

In the dialogue, when Jenny asked Ken if he likes his job (你喜欢你的工作吗？), he answers “是的，我很喜欢’. He doesn’t need to answer “是的”, just “我很喜欢” is fine.

Posted on: Discussing Eating

 thanks for your audio. Do you have any lesson teaching specifically how to use chopsticks ?

Posted on: New Year

what is the difference between 旅游 and 旅行？ Thanks.

Posted on: Useful Phrases #1

我不了解isnt equal to 我不明白. 我不了解is used when someone ask you “do you know something about this topic?” and you can say, “I don’t know =我不了解”. But “我不明白” is used when someone ask you “do you understand what I am talking about? ”.  So these expressions are different. 我不清楚 is also different from both of them. It is used when someone asks you “do you know the way to the nearest toilet? ” and then you can answer “我不清楚” or “我不知道”. So you cant use these three expressions interchangeably.

Posted on: Christmas

In the dialogue, it would be better if you use 我亲戚会送（better than 给）我……

And I think maybe because the hosts try to make the lesson easier for newbies, the dialogue doesn’t sound this native. Thanks for you lesson.