Yes, thanks for pointing this out. I have already corrected the transcript.

谢谢!
Serge

The line A hanzi has a mistake in it. It says:

这是你住的地方吗?

It should say:

这是你住的住宅吗?

很高兴你喜欢我的播客！（Hen3 gao1xing4 ni3 xi3huan1 wo3de bo1ke4!）

OK, good question. In short, in this kind of context, there are only TWO possible ways of saying: 房子不是很大(fang2zi bu2shi4 hen3 da4)　or 房子不大(fang2zi bu2 da4), so not 房子不很大(fang2zi bu4 hen3 da4)。

My explanation would be that Chinese language “likes” even number of syllables, let’s say 6,4,2 etc, in order to rhyme properly. In this case, we have fang zi bu shi hen da=6, fang zi bu da=4, but fang zi bu hen da=5. That’s my explanation. If you ask a Chinese person why it’s like that, they would probably just say: “because it sounds weird without a verb”

Hope this helps

Serge
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