User Comments - risingdamp

Posted on: Buying Bread and Butter

shenyajin

It wasn't an inconvenience for me at all. Just letting you know so that it can be fixed.

Posted on: Bumming a Smoke

amesburygeorge

Your first line is correct.

In your second line, in think you are trying to say:

Yŏu, yàobuyào huŏ?

Posted on: Big Bed

Thanks again changye. Your responses are so useful, you should be working for Cpod.

Posted on: Big Bed

changye,

So, do I assume that in the sample sentence, we know a room is being spoken about only due to the measure word 间.

Could we have used a different measure word to make 房 mean 'house' ?

Posted on: A Family of Teachers

"I learnt this as a beginner in China"

Doesn't this mean you are not a beginner now, and should be looking beyond the Newbie lessons to Elementary or Intermediate?

And how can you "waste" a download. There is no restriction on the number of downloads.

Posted on: Big Bed

Thanks for that Pete. However, I thought 房 by itself meant 'house', so I'm a little confused.

Posted on: Blow out Your Candles

Thanks changye,

I hadn't realised that the 是 could be left out, so I didn't recognise the shi...de  structure. It makes sense now that I do.

My problem now is that the shi and de nicely enclose the clause to be emphasised. If the shi is omitted, how do you know where that clause begins in a longer, more complicated sentence?

Posted on: Blow out Your Candles

In the expansion sentence,

你怎么认识他的？Nĭ zĕnme rènshi ta de? How did you meet him?

why is the de 的  needed?

Posted on: Big Bed

In the 7th Expansion sentence, shouldn't

你住哪间房？  Which room are you staying in?

instead read  你住在哪个房间？

Or am I missing something?

Posted on: Basic Shapes

Cpod, a minor error:

In the 4th expansion sentence, you refer to 'she', but the character is 'he'.