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anonymous239594
Posted on: All About Measure Words
November 6, 2008 at 8:19 AMI am completely fascinated by 量词! It is one of the grrreatest features of Chinese grammar!
About dogs our 语法老师 told us that “一只狗”表示很可爱的小狗, while “一条狗”表示不喜欢的坏人。
Posted on: Stopped at the Gate
November 5, 2008 at 2:56 PMI expected for some reason that Ken would comment on 嘛 in the last line (“为了大家的安全嘛。”).
Anyway, I finally looked it up myself, and it seems like 嘛 is used here because the speaker wants to emphasize that he says an obvious thing.
Posted on: Google vs. Baidu
November 2, 2008 at 8:01 AMI've studied this one after studying the Communications in the Office lesson, and found some vocabulary repeating (沟通，效率, 行不通) which means you guys really care about efficient teaching! Thank you once more!
Posted on: Death by Ninja
October 29, 2008 at 6:36 AMYeah, I've heard that VERY bad word too.
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Beijing
October 29, 2008 at 5:33 AMbillm,
My 口语老师 told us we can address female service workers using 大婶 dàshěn. I don't know whether it is common usage though.
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Beijing
October 28, 2008 at 12:53 PMWonderful lesson!
And thanks everyone for posting illustrations here.
Posted on: A Month as a Monk and Chinese Business Meetings
October 22, 2008 at 7:45 AMThank you, Pete!
That was the most interesting I've ever heard on Dear Amber!
Posted on: The Boy That Cried Wolf
October 18, 2008 at 11:31 AM小男孩儿被狼…吃掉了！
Oh, Jenny, you are marvelous!
Posted on: Rome
October 18, 2008 at 10:00 AMIt's great that this lesson features 怪不得, detailed in one of the recent Qing Wens (No Wonder!).
Posted on: Language Power Struggle
November 8, 2008 at 4:07 AMI seem to have no problems about people complementing my Chinese after me saying “你好”. In fact, though it is obvious to me, that many young people in China study English rather intensely these days, when I see someone saying more than “Hello!”, and without a heavy 湖北 accent, I feel so happy, that I almost feel obliged to reply “Your English is very good!” And if I find a young Chinese studying Russian, guess what I find most natural to tell him? Yeah, that’s indeed “I believe Russian is very difficult for you!” (meaning of course, it is even more difficult for a Chinese to master, than English).
So I don’t see any problem there… Maybe we 老外 just should take that easier?