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Posted on: The Seven Year Itch 3: Extramarital Involvement

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Posted on: The Seven Year Itch 3: Extramarital Involvement

Thanks!

Posted on: The Seven Year Itch 3: Extramarital Involvement

I can open the dialogue, vocabulary, expansion, and grammar sections for this lesson without a problem, but when I open exercises, I get a blank page. Is this problem on my end?

Posted on: The Seven Year Itch 3: Extramarital Involvement

You guys explained so many cool phrases so clearly, and while being entertaining! You really found ways to help us understand the sense of the language in the dialogue. An awesome lesson!

Posted on: Taking the Train to Beijing

Thank you for sharing your site with us! It is really awesome!

Posted on: Thanksgiving Turkey

On the Chinese version of Voice of America, each article I read translated the phrase "Black Friday" consistently the same way lujiaojie did. Maybe your students are not familiar with Black Friday, but are familiar with Friday the 13th (highly likely), and so simply assume the latter must be what you are talking about.

Posted on: Shopping for the Husband

"Respect those who respect pistachios, as my old mother used to say to me."

:)

I have a T-shirt with this graphic that says, "(my husband's Chinese name) 是我的开心果“ and my husband has one that says "(my Chinese name)是我的开心果”. My husband designed the shirts - they were my Valentine's Day gift the year we married.

Luckily for me, he can also cook.

Posted on: Shopping for the Husband

I'm afraid many of us women from "the big city" - be it New York or Shanghai, would end up vindicating your statement! I may not be beautiful, graceful, or sexy, but I can verify for you that I also, in addition, can't cook! :)

Posted on: Shopping for the Husband

Mmm, I see your point now. I've always felt I needed to ask two or three people how much would be appropriate to give...I describe my relationship to the gift recipient to each of the three advisers in detail, then I try to kind of average what the three of them say, or take the highest number, and go with it.

I used to just give as much as I wanted, but I found I gave too much once, and caused real embarrassment and sense of obligation in the recipient.

Also, one must notice what economic level the gift recipient is at compared to the advice givers, meanwhile also taking into account the perception others have of your own economic level. You are right, it's so complex.

Well, I suppose it's not complex to those who have grown up in the system, it's just complex to those of us looking at it from the outside and trying to fit in!

Posted on: 徐志摩《再别康桥》

Jiaojie, 你把这首诗朗诵得太精彩了，你启发了我去更了解这首诗（也启发了我去查词典找＂ｉｎｓｐｉｒｅ＂的翻译！）太可怜的我，我会需要再听你们的解释，可能再来两三次，才会清楚！

我的一个爱好就是诗意。谢谢你们的介绍。

哦，我说我自己太可怜的，当然我的意思不是我因为需要再听你们所以就算可怜的，我会乐意的去再听你们，我的意思就是，我因为学习一门外语原来是很辛苦的，所以我很辛苦的！我会天天向上！