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billzorn

Posted on: Chinese New Year Plans
February 09, 2008, 11:09 PM

i'd like to see a lesson that explored the way in which native mandarin speakers use 'nage' and 'shenme'; not the literal translation but the idiomatic usage. my friends sprinkle their conversations with these and other words that according to them have little or no meaning (much to my literally minded consternation).

Posted on: Discussing Work
July 09, 2007, 09:33 PM

Why doesn't anyone respond to my questions? Wo bu shi huairen.

Posted on: Returning an Item
July 09, 2007, 09:30 PM

Why do we use 'guo' in the first sentence and 'le' in the second? 前天他来过。 (He came the day before yesterday.) 他前天去北京了,后天回来。 (He went to Beijing the day before yesterday. He'll come back the day after tomorrow.)

Posted on: Discussing Work
July 07, 2007, 12:25 AM

and why do we use xuexi for 'to learn' in one sentence in the expansions (学习普通话不容易。 (Learning Mandarin is not easy.) but in the next sentence use only xue? both are defined as 'learn'

Posted on: Discussing Work
June 23, 2007, 01:51 PM

(How long has he been eating? An hour.) why do we use the construction ta chifan chi le.... in this sentence? when do you use this duplication of the verb?