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Keth

Posted on: Cake Advice
April 21, 2014, 05:48 AM

Vera and Gregg I think your format for the lesson is great.I found it really helpful, clear,informative and I genuinely enjoyed listening to it.

Posted on: Chinese Opera
February 02, 2014, 07:07 AM

Really interesting topic. I wonder whether you can could us what are the top 5 most popular Beijing Operas, to give us some idea of which opera to start listening to.  Also whether there are any contemporary composers creating new Beijing Operas. If so who are they and what are the Operas called?

Posted on: One Visit After Another
October 02, 2013, 04:03 AM

谢谢

Posted on: One Visit After Another
September 28, 2013, 05:36 AM

How does using "jian" fit into seeing somebody? For instance can I say

(jīn)(tiān)(wǒ)(yào)(qù)(jiàn)(yī)(shēng)

Today Iam going to see the Doctor.

Posted on: Learning Your Lessons
September 14, 2013, 06:46 AM

I am not sure when to use the measure word  or use 节。So can you say 今天我有八门课。Jīn tiān wǒ yǒu bā mèn kè4  Or this  今天我有一门数学课。Jīn tiān wǒ yǒu yī mèn shùxúe kè .

Posted on: The Time Has Come
June 15, 2013, 05:41 AM

I often see 。。。。的时候  例子“当我在生病的时候,我没有去办公室了”。I ‘ve no idea why I use it like this to express “when”.

Posted on: Ballet Lessons
June 11, 2013, 06:55 AM

Check out the Task I uploaded for this lesson! Download

Posted on: Excited about Exclamations (Part 4)
June 02, 2013, 05:44 AM

Thanks.That's an interesting and useful observation.

Posted on: Excited about Exclamations (Part 4)
June 01, 2013, 06:11 AM

I can see that using a 4th Tone makes sense to express anger , but my dictionary gives a first tone, and I just wonder whether there are everyday situation when you would use 哼with a first tone?

Posted on: Excited about Exclamations (Part 3)
May 28, 2013, 10:16 AM

Tingyun,First can I say thanks for taking so much trouble .What you have to say is really interesting to me and I am fascinated by it. I cant seem to download the PDF but I have been trying to read the HTML version. It is really complicated for me to read and understand , so it will take me some time!

“trying to search for a 'need' for their use is making the mistake of treating English as a universal standard”. My intention was more to try and understand why Modal Particles play such a big part in everyday speech and writings. If you watch any Chinese ad or TV show it is full of Modal Particles, and yet they are often not explained thoroughly in text books ,and at the same time disparaged by most learners as being somehow “a waste of time” This just seems a contradiction to me, so the phonetic explanation seemed to me the most logical way to put them in context. It is true that you can hear a difference sometimes in spoken dialogue when they don’t use Modal Particles. So may be their purpose is mainly to do with written Chinese?