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  • Ba or Ma, 好吧？好吗？
    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....
    ba, Beginning, Chinese General, grammar, ma

  • ma? 吗 or ma! 嘛
    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...
    Beginning, Chinese General, grammar, ma, question