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哪里？“哪里”？Nălĭ?"Nălĭ"?
shàng gè lǐ bài tiān wǒ de zhōng guó péng yǒu bān jiā ，yāo qǐng wǒ qù cān guān tā men de xīn fáng zǐ 。tā men de xīn jiā bù zhì dé zhēn piāo liàng 。
上个 礼拜天我的中国朋友搬家，邀请我去参观他们的新房子。他们的新家布置得真漂亮。
kě dāng wǒ chēng zàn de shí hòu ，wǒ de péng yǒu què wèn ：“nǎ lǐ nǎ lǐ ？”wǒ shuō ：“kè tīng...
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I wrote to my student the other day:
下周的课改在一点上怎么样？
He replied:
好吧，没问题。
I was pretty sure he wanted to say "Ok, no problem." However, the "好吧" made me feel a little confusing: was that hard for him to accept the new schedule?
For all beginners, we know '好的' means OK as response....
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We have two kinds of 'ma' sound in the end of some sentences, they sound similar, but one is used in question sentences, and the sentence is always read in rising tone; the other is used in falling tone, and seldom used in questions. Let's see how different they are.
吗ma, is probably one of...
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Remember the example sentence from part 1?
我们晚上吃了饭去看电影吧？
“了” means "finish", so you can also say 我们晚上吃完饭去看电影吧？
In these 2 sentences 吃了饭、吃完饭 have same meaning of "finish dinner".
If you ever learned 补语 (bǔ yǔ, complement) , the words follow and complete 谓语 (wèi yǔ ，predicate), some of the most...
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“了”，is one of the most trickiest word in Chinese language, and it seems like you never know when you should say than when shouldn't.
If you've been told “了” is used in past tense only, everything will be simpler.
But we do NOT say “了” all the time when we are telling you something happened in the...
