User Comments - bapkate

Posted on: Useful Usages

Could you use 利用 like this: "我利用这张照片画了一幅画"? Meaning, I painted a painting using (based off of) this photograph?

Posted on: Misfortune from our mouths 祸从口入──管住嘴巴

I found this lesson slightly more difficult than most of the intermediate lessons I've gone through so far. I had to listen to it a couple of times at slow speed to get everything and I'm still not sure I caught everything 😂 Also the dialogue isn't repeated at the end, which is a change from earlier intermediate lessons.

Here are a few of the words used during the lesson that I would find useful to define, either because they were used a fair number of times during the discussion or were important to understanding the content of the discussion, or both!:

孕妇 - yùnfù - pregnant woman

敏感 - mǐngǎn - sensitive, susceptible

神经过敏 - shénjīngguòmǐn - jumpy, nervous, oversensitive

冲动 - chōngdòng - impetus, impulse, emotional impulse, impulsive

主语 - zhǔyǔ - subject (grammar)

宾语 - bīnyǔ object (grammar)

Posted on: Using a Dictionary

I also thought this lesson felt more like an upper-intermediate lesson than intermediate. There was very little in the way of English explanations and both hosts spoke very quickly, using words I haven't seen introduced in Intermediate and lower courses.

Posted on: 南海爭端 South China Sea Dispute

I... think it might be appropriate to add to the summary of this lesson that the opinions expressed here only represent one viewpoint on this topic 😬😬

Posted on: A Special Gift

The background music throughout this lesson is too loud. It's distracting when listening to both the English and the Chinese.

Posted on: Funerals and Consolation

This was a very helpful lesson! Thank you. Unrelated to the lesson: John's voice sounds really familiar 😹. Does he also do work for HelloChinese?

Posted on: "Without you I'm so lonely" 没有你陪伴真的好孤单

These C-pop/ Mandopop lessons are great! I'm really enjoying the line-by-line break down of song lyrics. I wish it was easier to find all of them together so I don't miss any 😊

Posted on: Letting it All Out

I find the music playing in the background to be very distracting