User Comments - Xiaomai001

Posted on: Describing Weird Textures

Haha very entertaining!  Great lesson guys! 

Posted on: Snake's New Necklace

Thanks so much Vera, that's really helpfull :)

Posted on: Buying a Coffee

Is there any difference between kāfēidiàn and kāfēiguǎn?

Posted on: Snake's New Necklace

Hi there, just after a bit more explanation of using (le)... I understand the basic uses but am having some trouble with the more complex sentence structures in the grammar extensions for this lesson.

When talking about basic uses is says to put the (verb) followed by (le), which makes sense. It then goes on to say...

"To negate that a has happened, use méi or méiyǒu, and not le"

I don't really get this sentence. Is that meant to say "to relay that something has not happened although it was meant to"? or something like that? For example Wǒ méiyǒu qù - I didn't go. ?

"méiyǒu followed by (verb)"

Also further down when explaining a sentence structure containing multiple verbs, the example is given:

Tā zhàn qǐlái dǎ kāimén zǒu le chūqù

which is translated as "he stood up, opened the door, and walked out"

I was just wondering why the (le) is after the (zou) and not after the (chuqu) because I thought that was also a verb meaning to 'go out', so because that has already happened, why isnt there a le after that?

If anyone can help me understand this, that would be awesome! :)

Posted on: Music Lovers

thanks guys, that makes sense. I guess it's kind of like saying 'are you able with musical instruments' lol.

Posted on: Music Lovers

If the word for 'play' is different depending on the instrument, how can you ask someone simply if they can play ANY musical instrument at all? As in "Can you play a musical instrument?" Could I say "Nǐ huì tán yīnyuè ma?"