User Comments - xiao_liang

xiao_liang

Posted on: 把 Humbug

November 30, 2010 at 9:01 AM

Ok, I have a question on this older qing wen. They talk a lot at the beginning about how this structure:

subject 把 object verb 成 finish sentence

is used to portray mistaking something, or mistakenly doing something. For example:

我把6写成9了

Mistakenly writing 6 as 9. They even give an example about how to explicitly say it was done intentionally. But then this example is given:

巫婆把王子变成了青蛙。

The witch turned the prince into a frog. Same structure, yet clearly intentional. Is the difference just from context?

Posted on: Blind Massage

November 29, 2010 at 1:58 PM

As for your other suggestions, there's a lesson topic suggestion thread here:

http://chinesepod.com/community/conversations/post/5240

Posted on: Surfing the Web Chinese Style

November 29, 2010 at 12:09 PM

I don't think there'd be much difference between what's displayed on the "dialogue" tab at the top and a vocab list, to be honest...

Posted on: Fighting over the Bill

November 24, 2010 at 11:47 AM

I was just about to suggest this lesson, then I searched, and realised that the lesson already existed! This would have been so useful in China! I'll listen to it tonight.

The phrase I heard most often was just 我来我来我来！ (usually said by at least 2 people at the same time)...

I see from the similar newbie lesson that's short for 我来付 lai3fu4 - to pay

Posted on: What does she look like?

November 23, 2010 at 12:29 PM

Expansion sentence:

我刚刚在路上碰到我的前女友。她跟一个男的在一起。

The translation of the 2nd sentence has it as "she was with another man", and I notice that rather than 男人 it's 男的. Is this a normal pattern for "another", or is there another reason for having the 的 here?