Hi Benny,
In this lesson you write : “Zuó tiān wǒ qù Shànghǎi”
Whereas in the previous one, you say we have to add “le” at “zuotian ni qu le…”
Weishenme ? :)

Whao ! You answer for real !
What you do is really great !
Thanks ^^

hi benny I am glad that the page its taking form and I am waiting for exams
I want to ask you how can I say?
next week
next year

and if you form this words the same way that tomorow, today and yestarday.
xie xie, zaijian
pd: What does it means Weishenme?

I liked the last part with history/mistery and present! Sounded like a bit of Chinese wisdom :)

very great lesson! and your last words.. how true :)!

haha, Benny, you’re awesome.
Great way to end the lesson.

TO: Anna
八月我去中國. I’m going to China in August.

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lao shi benny, ni hao ^^ wo yao shuo, ni hen hao laoshi. is that right? hehe.

i’m interested in the position of the “le”, it could be located as the last word?

Hi Mars,

“Le” is a past tense word which is normally put after a verb. For example:

wǒ chī le wǔ fàn = I ate lunch

Benny

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hrm so you don’t say the word “le” ? it’s just qù ?

You’re confused on “1”?

Why? I think it’s easy.

竹内

i think that the sentences that don’t require a “le” are those that already have a past tense in them. ( in this case, yesterday. and Benny, great ending reminded me of Kung Fu Panda.

Ni Hao 吴珊琳

‘了’ is used for ‘past perfect tense’ in Chinese, in this case, the English sentence (I went to Shanghai yesterday) is ‘simple past sense’, if we translate ‘I went to Shanghai yesterday’ into Chinese one word by one word, seems we don’t need ‘了’,
but Chinese used to use ‘past perfect tense’ to talk about some actions, when they just want to tell others what happened,

for example,
A: What did you do yesterday?
B: I went to ShangHai. // simple past tense
A: 你昨天做什么了？(zuó tiān nǐ zuò shén mè lē?)
B: 我昨天去上海了. (wǒ zuó tiān qù shànghǎi lē) // past perfect tense,

Joey

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今天我去台北。