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bertson144
Posted on: Plants Need Watering
June 29, 2011 at 9:36 PMSo shouldn't it be "It's already 9" or "It's already 9 o'clock"?
Posted on: Happiness Candy
June 29, 2011 at 6:31 PMExpansion sentence no. 12 needs to put in an agreement between "...qǐng wǒ..." and "...treat us..." in the translation. I suppose 'qǐng wǒmen' was intended in the Mandarin, or else it's 'treat me' in the English, but I can't be sure which it is.
Posted on: What's your (animal) sign?
June 29, 2011 at 6:15 PMRegarding the 13th expansion sentence, a more grammatical translation would be "You are much prettier than she". Not that important as far as getting the meaning across, but just thought I'd point it out.
Posted on: Country Standings
June 24, 2011 at 7:33 PMSpeaking about chāoguò, what about the exercise where it is translated as "When will my Chinese level pass his?"? And is kěyǐ able to mean
will as well as can and may? I thought it was just used for expressions as we use may and can for the asking of permission in English? But here it seems to be used for questions of ability in the sense of the speaker's hopes to exceed somebody's else Chinese capability?
Posted on: Tomb Sweeping Day
June 24, 2011 at 4:56 PMWǒ yě tóngyì!
Posted on: Man or Woman?
June 24, 2011 at 3:09 PMSo what you're saying is that shuō is always functioning as a líhécí whether huà is said in the statement or not? And if huà is dropped out of the statement, then something will always replace it as an object in the statement, in this case màn yīdiǎn? Finally, if all I've stated here is true, then is it also true of how all líhécí work? In other words, something always has to replace the object part of the 'verb + object' if the usual object like huà is not said. Sorry to be so picky here but I've just heard about líhécí in your Qing Wen lesson on them and I want to be as clear about this as possible. Please correct me if I have any points wrong. Thank you very much.
Posted on: Yang Jie's Fury
June 23, 2011 at 7:39 PMI agree. I think it would be better to change the English to 'you' not 'we'?
After more than 3 years it ought to be addressed.
Posted on: Valentine's Day
June 23, 2011 at 6:57 PMZài shàng ge kuòzhāng de wèntí lǐ shì tǎoyàn líhécí ma
Posted on: Shanghai Expo: Haibao
June 23, 2011 at 6:15 PMWhat does Jenny say at the very end of the lesson with John? It's "dàjiā.?..?.xiàcì zàijiàn". What is between dàjiā & xiàcì? Xièxie.
Posted on: Blow out Your Candles
June 29, 2011 at 11:51 PMA nice, happy-spirited lesson. Zhù dàjiā yuèláiyuè niánqīng! One question: Historically has it been common to make a measure word out of a regular word in certain circumstances? I ask this because I wonder if this is the explanation for yī kǒu qì?