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In 讨要工钱 and 讨债 it seems that 讨 means "ask for" or "request", rather than the usual meaning of "discuss".

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给你长点儿脸 = "make you proud" There are various ways to say "proud", but I have not yet seen this one. Perhaps we could say it's the opposite of : 让你丢脸 = "embarrass you" , "disgrace you"

妈妈走在前面，女儿跟在后面 For most verbs, the 在-expression precedes the verb. It's interesting that, for 走 and 跟, the 在-expression follows.

你先别着急 I think that this kind of 先 doesn't really mean "first". Maybe the meaning is closer to "now", so the sentence means : "Don't worry now" or we would just say "Stop worrying". … Especially in 我先走了 which is often used when there is no "first" (or "later"). So the meaning should be : "I'll be on my way now".

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Hi.. am Naveen Shastri from Ind.. i just started learning Chinese.. Teach me more please.. Xi xi

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男孩欢畅极了，已经 “半路朝阳”。

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The pinyin for 一 ("one") is sometimes shown as "yì" and sometimes as "yí". I know that this follows certain tone-change guidelines. But on some other teaching videos, I've noticed that they show pinyin exactly as it appears in the dictionary. I think this is probably better for learners, because the original tones are what we need to learn. We can deal with tone changes later, as we acquire experience with the language. 还是谢谢老师辛苦，视频真精美。

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代替 “别成剩女” 也许也可以说 “别成嫁不出去的女性”。

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当电灯泡 I have seen this expression before. I think it means "be a light bulb" only when actually talking about light bulbs. When talking about people, we could say "be a fifth wheel" (even though there are only three people, and not five). More commonly, we would say: "two is company, three is a crowd". So 你想让我当电灯泡 could be: "that would make me a fifth wheel" or "that would make it 'two is company, three is a crowd' "

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他一眼都没看。 This is such a great way to say: "he didn't even look at it". I used to use: 他连看都没看。 Learning how to say "something didn't even happen" can be quite challenging for learners. Using 甚至 would be simpler, but 他甚至没有看 seems unnatural to me.

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I think that 我太难了 is short for 对我来说太难了 which means "It's too hard for me". Some people wonder how 对我来说 can mean "for me". But this has nothing to do with giving or owning. It means "the way it affects me". … I love 爱疯 for "iPhone". It's more fun than 苹果手机. 🙂

哈哈，很有趣。太太怕，每当穿上别的衣服时，就老十岁。 …… “不带怎么玩的” 的意思我不太清楚。可能是方言吧？

他们最近分手了。 Although 分手 looks like a verb-object pair ("separable verb"), I have never seen the structure 分了手. I think that some verb-object pairs are actually never separated. Two other ones are 回家 ("go home") and 潜水 ("dive (under water)"). For 结婚 ("get married") I have sometimes seen 结了婚 but usually it's 结婚了. Similarly for 离婚 ("get divorced").

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她已经好几年没有回家了 This is an unusual grammatical structure which takes getting used to. When an action has not occurred for a certain period of time, the time-duration appears before the verb. And a sentence-final 了 is indeed used, even though the action is negated. … 她已经回家好几年了 Normally, the time-duration appears after the verb. The sentence-final 了 indicates that the action will continue. … 她没有回家 Normally, if the action is negated, a sentence-final 了 is not used.

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I wonder if 皮鞋 necessarily means "leather shoes". These days, most shoes are made of a synthetic material. Very few are made of leather. Maybe 皮鞋 means "dress shoes". Different from casual shoes. I think I have also seen the term 布鞋 ("cloth shoes"). Maybe this is for casual shoes, especially if they're made of cloth, such as running shoes or sneakers. For "jogging shoes" maybe 运动鞋 is used.

房间打扫干净了 = 房间被打扫干净了 There is an interesting rule in Chinese grammar which says: « If the subject of the verb is not capable of performing the action of the verb, then the passive voice is implied, and 被 is not required. »

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Haha, the math problem is good !! 🙂 I have also figured out the linguistic problem related to 问道. When 道 is used after a verb related to verbal expression, such as 说道, 喊道, etc., then it means that we are dealing with a direct quotation (exact wording). In print, this kind of quotation is always shown in quote marks. I have not seen this usage of 道 explained in any dictionary or grammar text, but I have found that it is commonly used this way.

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在同一家银行工作。 在超市买东西。 In these statements, the 在-expression comes before the verb (工作 or 买). But with some other verbs (such as 坐 or 站), the 在-expression follows the verb: 坐在椅子上。 站在地毯上。 I'm not sure why that is so.

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In English, we say: "a pair of pants for hiking", but a direct translation as: 一条裤子来爬山 wouldn't really make sense, because our meaning is: "a pair of pants for when I'm hiking". So 一条爬山时穿的裤子 makes a lot more sense. Good to learn this sentence construction !!

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