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chris
Posted on: Who's Been Spending My Money?
March 22, 2015 at 3:06 AMCan someone help me with the Expansion sentence 那孩子跌倒了，摔得一脸泥巴。(The child fell over and muddied his face). I understand the first part of the sentence, but I'm struggling with the grammar in the second part. I get that "niba" is mud and "shuai" is to drop to the ground and "lian" in this case is literally referring to the kid's face, but i just don't understand the grammar structure.
Posted on: Who's Been Spending My Money?
March 21, 2015 at 1:47 PMIs Sunix still around? His mannerisms in the dialogues always made me laugh (and also helped the content stick)!
Posted on: Finding Some Money
March 19, 2015 at 3:03 PMI just listened to that old QW episode, a real blast from the past! As you say, quite a fun episode.
Posted on: This Haircut Please
March 18, 2015 at 3:06 PMI'm very lazy and have just had a grade 2 all over for as long as I can remember. I either ask for 平头 (píngtóu = crewcut) or a 两毫米 (liǎngháomǐ = Grade 2, literally 2 millimetre).
Posted on: Let Me Speak to a Human Being
March 18, 2015 at 10:45 AMQuality muzak!
Posted on: Rebooking a Dentist Appointment
March 14, 2015 at 7:06 AMVery strange - i completely missed the background drilling until I read the comments!
Posted on: Trade Expos
March 14, 2015 at 5:01 AMFor anyone interested, please feel free to help out with the Transcript here:
http://chinesepod.com/community/conversations/post/14536
I found this group really useful a few years ago when I was making the jump from Ele to Intermediate and am again finding it useful now that I've decided to have another crack at this language!
Posted on: Buying a Guard Dog
March 8, 2015 at 8:56 PMI just checked the glossary. Seems the way to do it is to just switch the sentence around a bit, eg 'ni de qian gou by gou?'. Will remember to check the glossary before posting queries in future! By the way the glossary sample sentences are very good. useful learning tool.
Posted on: Buying a Guard Dog
March 8, 2015 at 8:41 PMI picked up the point about 'gou' not being able to come before a noun and the example of 'gou qian' that you used. But did you then explain the correct way to say 'do you have enough money'? I have always said 'ni you gou qian ma?' But I'm worried this is incorrect now!!
Posted on: House Hunting
March 22, 2015 at 4:18 AMJust to help manage expectations of Newbies coming to Shanghai, the RMB3,500 mentioned in the lesson is more like a weekly rent rather than monthly if you want a decent 2-bed place in downtown Shanghai!! You'd need to get quite a bit out of the centre to find a 2-bed place for RMB3,500 a month.