User Comments - toianw

Posted on: Getting Warm

晒小太阳...

Posted on: Fight on a Plane

Hi chenwenling,

I think there's some problems with the dashboard & itunes feed at the moment. In the meantime, you can find the latest lessons here. Enjoy... :)

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

Hi juanmarin,

Our friend Zhenlijiang made a transcript of this lesson some time back. If you're interested, clik here to take a look.

Posted on: Time for a Holiday

As Vera said, most Chinese won't know anything about All Saints' Day so assosciate 万圣节 exclusively with Halloween (ghosts, pumpkin lanterns etc.). The exception would be Catholics, who refer to All Saints' Day as 诸圣日.

Posted on: Sales: Understanding a Customer's Needs

"In fact, thinking more about this, isn't the "ba" here actually a perfect example of the structure I mention above, i.e. we are "taking my product and selling 'out' (simply a directional complement)"

Yeah, that's my understanding. (把我的产品销售出去)

Posted on: Sales: Understanding a Customer's Needs

Hi Chirs, I think the basic sentence ending is simply 哪些人是我的对象。

I agree with podster (below) about the 才是。It's difficult to translate because we normally just put extra stress on the "which" to express this in English. The 把 bit is just modifying (adding extra information about) 对象.

Posted on: Negotiating a Deadline

haha - a mere mortal after all :)

Review is a pain, eh? At least if you keep on studying new stuff, the most useful words and patterns will crop up again and again, so you'll automatically get some review.

If you don't already, I can totally recommend downloading the dialogue only files once you've studied a lesson and just listening again and again whenever you have the chance. This should also help your listening skills. I'd say my listening is far ahead of the other skills - probably down to listening to hours and hours of Chinesepod dialogues when I'm on the bus/subway.

Posted on: For the Love of Pale Skin

I suspect "sandstorm" may be a better (or at least a more general) translation.

Posted on: Where's My Takeout?

Hi cowood, I agree. Your sentence sounds better with the 要。On the original question, I think 多久 and 多长时间 are essentialy the same (though the first is probably more common). You could also use 多久 in this sentence and the meaning would be the same.

Posted on: Negotiating a Deadline

哇！Way to go to make us all feel bad Chris! hehe. Keep upthe good work mate!