User Comments - Right-Wingnut

Posted on: Outdoor Survivors (Part 1)

I haven't listened to the podcast, so perhaps I am missing something.

But it seems you are using 驴友 to mean traveller instead of 旅游.

Posted on: Pregnancy Series 6: Shopping for the Newborn

Thanks.

Posted on: Where's the bathroom?

You have to decide that for yourself. The expansion vocabulary will come up in a lesson eventually. Personally, I don't try to memorize anything. After you see it often enough it will stick.

Posted on: Lili and Zhang Liang 1: A Fated Meeting

I just kept listening to one lesson after another - no attempt to learn the material, just pick up meaning from John's explanations and a little bit of context. In fact this is all I did for 6 months or more, and I did gradually understand more of the podcasts. Jenny that is, not the dialog itself. Then I went back and studied the lessons properly.

Posted on: Pregnancy Series 8: About to Give Birth

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Posted on: Pregnancy Series 6: Shopping for the Newborn

Expansion Sentences 4, 8, 12 and 16 have no Chinese - only English translations.

Posted on: Pregnancy Series 8: About to Give Birth

The fifth, ninth and twelfth expansion sentences only have English translations - no Chinese.

Posted on: Mainland & Taiwan Lingo: Transportation

Also:

Take-out / Take-away

Period / Full-stop

Gas / Petrol

Faucet / Tap

Outage / blackout

Attorney / Lawyer

In the hospital / In hospital

Loan / lend money

Chalkboard / Blackboard

Rush hour / Peak hour

Diaper / Nappy

Flashlight / Torch

Fall / Autumn

9/11 - 11/9

Crisps / Chips

Apartment / Flat

Pacifier / Dummy

Drapes / Curtains

Drugstore / Chemist

Napkin / Serviette

Realtor / Estate Agent

Posted on: The Glory of Labor

Thank you. There are quite a few more of these. I hope you don't mind if I point out the rest.

Posted on: Mainland & Taiwan Lingo: Transportation

Some more:

hood/bonnet

grade a test / mark a test

baseball: the pitcher faces the batter / cricket: the batter faces the bowler

zebra crossing / (forgotten)