“你问我答”：搭配辨析：more… than… 和 rather… than…

形容词 “tough” 可以形容事物是 “困难的，坚固的”。不过在本期节目中，主持人 Phil 和菲菲分享的短语 “tough it out” 不但可以用于描述 “忍受肉体上的痛苦，坚持下去”，也可以描述 “在艰难的处境中坚持下去”。听节目，学习这个短语的用法。 

在英语中，我们可以用 “hardly any”、“barely any” 和 “scarcely any” 这三个搭配来表示 “几乎没有”。比如，“I think there is hardly any issue with your report.” 的意思就是 “我认为你的报告几乎没有任何问题” 。不过，你知道为什么在这个句子中通常不用 “barely any” 或 “scarcely any” 吗？听节目，辨析这三个搭配的用法。 

如果你在分享自己的烦恼时，朋友对你说 “that's really a you problem”，那朋友的意思就是 “这件事只有你在乎”。“A you problem” 是一个地道的俗语表达，它的意思是 “属于你的问题，与别人无关” 或者 “这件事情只有你自己在意” 。在本期节目中，主持人 Phil 和菲菲将教你如何使用 “a you problem”。 

In this podcast, Andy will teach you how to use ‘the correlative comparative’. You don’t need to know the name. Think of it as ‘the more, the more’. This is a common sentence structure that helps us connect ideas in a fun way using comparative adjectives; it will help you give ad ... Show More

Learn how to use these very useful pronouns with 'some' and 'any'. 

When we bump into someone we haven’t met for a while, we’ll commonly ask them what they’ve been up to. That’s the topic of this lesson. We'll work with a variety of useful expressions including: 'Ça fait…?', 'pas mal de' and 'Ça a mis…'. We'll also see how to make use of the verb ... Show More

Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Have and Has? In this lesson, you will learn how to use theses two words, their proper pronunciation, when they are used, and listen to various examples of how to use them in sentences.  Would you like to improve your English? ... Show More

A listener asked about ‘tu’ and ‘vous’. In English, we simply use the pronoun ‘you’ but, in French, things are more complicated. In this conversation, we talk about when to use ‘tu’ and ‘vous’… and how to ‘make the switch’ between the two when our relationships have evolved over ... Show More