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Posted on: Commuting Options
September 8, 2012 at 4:52 AM

Translation typo in first Expansion sentence:

我怎么联系他？打电话还是发邮件？
 
wǒ zěnme liánxì tā？ dǎ diànhuà háishi fā yóujiàn？

How should I contact you? By phone or email?

"you" instead of "he".

Posted on: Repaying a Debt
August 27, 2012 at 4:41 AM

知道了。谢谢你。

Posted on: Repaying a Debt
August 27, 2012 at 12:15 AM

Grammar section sentence: 

没问题。你先洗头吧。
(No problem. Go ahead and wash my hair first.)

Is this the usual way to say "wash hair"?  Could you also say "洗头发" or
洗发"?

Posted on: Lesson Brainstorming
August 19, 2012 at 5:02 AM

Where do you want suggestions sent?  Someplace more central and lasting that the discussion forum of this particular lesson.

Posted on: A Private Money Changer
August 15, 2012 at 4:52 AM

Sorry, didn't paste in the English:

小马，你不是昨天刚去过银行吗？怎么又去了？

Xiao Ma, didn't you just got to the bank yesterday? Why did you go again?

Posted on: A Private Money Changer
August 15, 2012 at 4:52 AM

Tiny typo in the English of this dialog sentence: "got" instead of "go":

 小马，你不是昨天刚去过银行吗？怎么又去了？
        

Posted on: A Chinese-Style Contradiction
August 11, 2012 at 4:11 AM

In this expansion sentence:

 她的指甲又尖又长。

(Her nails are both pointy and long.)

Why is it zhī instead of zhǐ?

Posted on: Your Mandarin Is Really Good!
July 31, 2012 at 2:49 PM

I've noticed a subtle audio problem and wonder if anyone else can confirm it.  On the expansion sentences at least, sometimes the very initial sound is fractionally cut off.   For example,  in 

从这里到你家要多久？

(How long does it take to get to your hous

The very beginning of the 1st 'c' is missing -- not the whole sound, just the tiny fraction of a second at the beginning.  This is the case on a lot of the sentences but easiest to notice when the first sound is an unvoiced stop.  y theory is that the audio engineers are using some software to automatically discover the beginning of the sentence and it misses just enough to be noticeable.

Posted on: Ferocious Tiger Idioms
July 22, 2012 at 2:20 AM

When I play the .mp3 on my Android, it cuts off at 7 minutes 50 seconds, right after the words "two body parts'.  Has anyone else experienced this>

Posted on: Taking Transportation
July 22, 2012 at 1:50 AM

Error in the transcription: 

骑驴 
       (Camel.)

Should be "ride a donkey", right?