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DavidXuzhou
Posted on: Ways to Say "Stubborn"
July 12, 2014 at 5:47 PMHi adam_p_lax,
Oops, you got me. Thanks for your suggestions. :) Your question about '中' is in our todo list.
Posted on: Ways to Say "Stubborn"
July 12, 2014 at 5:39 PMHi Juriaan,
About this 倔, I acctually struggled a lot while preparing this Qing Wen. There are two pronunciations on dictionary, second tone and fourth tone, both are adjective and have the meaning 'stubborn'. Like you said, I got no one around speaks the second tone. We should have mentioned this in the show.
Posted on: Using the Paper Shredder
July 6, 2014 at 3:29 AMNoted. Will fix that soon. Thanks for pointing it out.
Posted on: Which one is Which
July 5, 2014 at 7:21 AMGood question. I think maybe we should have explained our sample sentences with more context. You are right, the '单词' usually means foreign language word to most Chinese. It's a common sense. In this sentence '你说的是哪个单词?', I think it's more like 'Which English word are you saying?'. For Mandarin 'word', we usually use 词语，词组.
Posted on: Sorting Out the Situation
July 4, 2014 at 5:08 PM情形 is a synoym of 情况. They have same meanings and one can replace another for most sentences. But in 反映情况/fan3 ying4 qing2 kuang4, to report situations, you never use another one. It's more like a fixed term. Besides, I feel 情况 is more colloquial and commonly used than 情形.
Posted on: Math Class Woes
July 4, 2014 at 4:53 PMHmm...打板球...not oftenly seen in China, but worth a dialogue for it.
Posted on: Those Pesky Mosquitos!
July 4, 2014 at 4:47 PMHi si1teng2, well said. I got what you mean, but it's better to use 就/jiu4 instead of 只/zhi3 in your sentence. 蚊子就是蚊子！
Posted on: Those Pesky Mosquitos!
July 4, 2014 at 3:18 AMFixed. The right tone will show up later on today. Thanks.
Posted on: Red Wine
July 3, 2014 at 9:17 AMInspired by Mark's post. Following are some Chinese domestic brand of red wine.
1. 张裕 zhāngyù
2. 长城 chángchéng
3. 王朝 wángcháo
4. 华夏长城 huáxiàchángchéng
5. 威龙 wēilóng
6. 新天 xin1tian1
Posted on: The World Cup in Brazil
July 13, 2014 at 2:07 AMBoth works.