User Comments - light487

Posted on: Introduce Your Name Like a Native

Actually I just realised that the 地 was a part of 田地.. feel a bit silly now :)

Posted on: Introduce Your Name Like a Native

我叫潘光明。 Not much confusion there for me.. (however, is there some fixed expression for 光明 perhaps?) but I do use the 地的 expression a lot when I am trying to explain myself and I might not be getting the tone of a character correct. I will repeat the character and then use another more obvious word to describe the character using 地的..maybe like.. 光明的明 or 朋友的友.. is it ok to drop the 地？I think I don't normally use the 地 that often..

Coincidentally, I have a Taiwanese friend who's name is Hsin-Tien (Xin Tian).. very similar to yours Fiona :)

Posted on: The Many Meanings of 免:未免,以免,难免,免不了[Video]

Is there some way to find all video style lessons?

Posted on: Haggle For A Good Deal

Have fun with it if you can.. it's a great learning experience to practise your Chinese. They start at 100 for a t-shirt usually.. feign offence and offer 5. Wait for the reaction of disbelief then smile or laugh.. now prompt them to offer a more reasonable price and keep staying below 20.. the real price of most t-shirts is around 20 to 25.. have fun.. find the real price.. and if necessary, move to a new store with the same products and buy at the now known price.

你给我, 便宜一点儿吧。
Ni gei wo, pianyi yidian'r ba.
Come on, you can give me a better price.

Posted on: How to Add Emphasis

Thanks! I need to do a 3 month refresh before my next trip to China in September and October.

Posted on: How to Add Emphasis

Great first lesson for my return to CPod after 2 years :) Now.. on to the rest of the 3,500+ lessons :)

Posted on: You Smell Terrible!

Why "tiantian" and not "meitian"? or other words for "always" for that matter?

Posted on: A Disgusting Woman

In the sentence: 她还放了一个又响又臭的屁 there's a lot of characters (adjectives, qualifiers etc) between 放 and 屁.. how do you get your head around connecting them? Is there some pattern in there that is standard?

Posted on: Copy and Paste

Thanks for the lesson.. it's not just the keywords that are useful but the conversation as well.

Posted on: Plane Ticket Name Mix-Up

In the dialog you have 半小时 rather than 半个小时.. which is the most common usage? I have always used 半个小时. Is this usage (in the dialog) done because it is part of a complex sentence?