I'm sure there have been discussions like this before, but they're nice to have once in a while. Tell me about your favorite lessons! ChinesePod has amassed a huge archive of lessons and it's not always easy to search it. I don't want to miss any gems, and neither should you!

I think my favorite at the moment is The Perfect Sandwich, at Intermediate level. It has a fun dialogue, useful vocab, some interesting cultural issues coming to light in the discussion and some of the best John-and-Jenny banter ever heard on the 'Pod. This episode is top notch in all regards. I would have expected my favorite to be one of the more crazy ones, like the Ninja 'sode or the Godzilla one (both Intermediate), but this baby took them all, despite a seemingly unimpressive subject.

Now, don't get me wrong, The Ninja and Godzilla are both pretty high up on my list. Episodes like that set CPod apart from the competitors and make learning Mandarin a real pleasure.

Now tell me about your favorites! Also, please note which level they are on, to make it easier for people to see if they're interested.

Okay, let's see if this works. Here's the idea:

1: Bookmark this discussion. This way you can be sure to be able to find it again. This is important for this to work.

2: When you see a discussion, either an old or a new one, on ChinesePod that you think illuminates some feature of Chinese or otherwise contains gems of wisdom on Chinese grammar, post a link to it here.

3: Please don't make any posts whatsoever in this discussion that do not contain links to great grammar discussions. Let's try to keep this list clean. It's not really supposed to be a discussion, but more of an archive.

The idea is that this will let people find the good grammar discussions easier by simply going to this topic and searchin on the page. And since we have it bookmarked, we can always find this page. Also, whenever we post to it, it will get bumped and thus show clearly on the discussions page.

Please write the name of the discussion and a short description of what's so great about it, and provide a link. Note that it doesn't have to be discussions solely about grammar. If there's something very interesting said about grammar in a lesson discussion, do post a link. But the interesting thing has to be in the discussion, not the lesson.

I'm not sure if this'll work, but it's worth a try.

Okay, let's try this thread in the Grammar Discussions group, instead.

1: Bookmark this discussion. This way you can be sure to be able to find it again. This is important for this to work.

2: When you see a discussion, either an old or a new one, on ChinesePod that you think illuminates some feature of Chinese or otherwise contains gems of wisdom on Chinese grammar, post a link to it here.

3: Please don't make any posts whatsoever in this discussion that do not contain links to great grammar discussions. Let's try to keep this list clean. It's not really supposed to be a discussion, but more of an archive.

The idea is that this will let people find the good grammar discussions easier by simply going to this topic and searchin on the page. And since we have it bookmarked, we can always find this page. Also, whenever we post to it, it will get bumped and thus show clearly on the discussions page.

Please write the name of the discussion and a short description of what's so great about it, and provide a link. Note that it doesn't have to be discussions solely about grammar. If there's something very interesting said about grammar in a lesson discussion, do post a link. But the interesting thing has to be in the discussion, not the lesson.

I'm not sure if this'll work, but it's worth a try.