@murrayjames, not quite dead on with a few pronunciation errors but like you said impressive. he doesn't seem to have any hesitation thinking in french. he learned by living /speaking everyday with native speakers the most efficient way if one can do it. i'm back taking to my computer!
@David,Echo (pefferie)all in good spirit . although i have never been to China and 'zhiji xuexi' with few opportunities to converse in chinese/english. i had a good chunkle. i can relate with my city Ottawa heavy accented french/english dialogues (patois) . perhaps David can remember similar situation here. anyway, i understand Echo's imitation and David/Echo banter quite well .tks for the fun lesson and will remember not to say 'wan'
@Echo, can you explain to me when to use 'zai + verb' or 'zhe after the verb' to turn into verb'ing' . i don't know when to use one or the other.some examples would help.also if i want to say ' just joking with you' is 'shuo zhe wanr' correct or not?
@Echo, is using 'lai2zhe' also considered as emotional in a statement as 'zen3me you' ?as i understand 'lai2zhe' is position at the end of a question sentence most of the time.e.g.i saw her this afternoon again - xiaban shang wo jian ta lai2zheshe ask what again? ta jiao shenme laizhe ? could i say ta jiao zenme you shenme?i should not get laizhe/zenmeyou mixed up right?@David or others,where could i put a text edit doc. (full of sentence structures like 'zenme you') on my iPhone from my MacMini without having to buy iWorks on both device.