你们好

我叫保罗，我是意大利人。我米兰大学毕业过日语和汉语已经三年了不过我愿意提高汉语力度。

因为我为了中国市场有兴趣的意大利的公司我在提供一些职业的服务所以我需要说汉语说的好。用这个ChinesePod不但我很想提高中文而且我要找到好的朋友！

请你们送给你很多的回信

hey all you.. peoples, dogs, w/evers-

some people think that chinese is one of the hardest lang. out there.. are they right? you answer...

yea chinese is mostly about the culture, wealth, and they use there lang. as symbols to deff. the word they are saying. i can hardly speak a sentence, but let me say-

i liked this one guy from china, and we talked... and talked... and talked for like 2 monthes THEN he stopped. just out of the clear blue sky BOOM! lol haha well i'm over it- thats what i get, we have never met and met over the internet (stupid) (kind of), but the thing is is that some people think that chinese people don't have that much emotions than Americans- is that true???

you can answer....

i have never been to china, ive had one friend he was nice, and SEEN a couple of chinese people. but never been there, i eat chinese food. :) and i watch alot of chinese movies..:) but YEA.

seeing the lang. looks hard, some say that if ya know spanish it helps out alot with diff. languages... WRONG! chinese has no comparrasion wat so ever (my understanding) to spanish HOLA NIHAO!.. no.

-Jlynn B.

 P.S- if i spelled hello in chinese wrong, you can deff. tell how much i suck at it, but whats the fun in being sucky... thats why i'm learning it. :)

Hello  

My name is Smiley Jiang , I'm a chinese student in a city of China.

You don't know how exited I was when I found the site --ChinesePod , It's serched by Y!.com of US by the tags"chinese language english".

Because of a student ,I deeply desire to be a Proper English Speaker . So , I always go to the Y!.com ,Amazon.com ,Times.com which published in English.

This morning, When I watched news in Y!.com , a idea comes up to my mind ,  Why don't I serch a website about the language Chinese and English so that I can make lots of friends in US who want to learn Chinese , and Chinese people who live in US.

My friends ,  if you want to make a friend who live in China and use the mother tongue -- Chinese . Contact me

smiley520520@163.com (MSN and the E-mail)

364183196@qq.com (QQ is the most popular chat system in China)

My hobby is quite a lot such as all types of Hollywood movies or our country's excellent movies,Vedio or PC Games , Advertising Art, chat or surf online ,language study (English Japanese), Programme,etc.

So, thanks to our  缘分(don't know how to translate it , It's a Greaaaaaaaaaat Chinese word ) ,We will become the dear friend throughout the distance,  So I titled "Distance longing cross long distance"(the title imitated from a English article) .

大家好

我的名字叫Smiley Jiang ，我是一个来自中国某个城市的学生。

当我找到ChinesePod这个网站时，你不知道我有多么高兴，ChinesePod 是我用Y!.com通过关键词"chinese language english"搜索到的。

因为作为一个学生，我迫切想成为一个说一口地道英语的人，所以，我经常逛雅虎，亚马逊，时代这些用英文发布的美国网站。

今天早晨，当我在yahoo上看新闻的时候，我的灵光一闪：为什么不去找一个关于英文和中文的交流网站呢？？ 这样， 我就可以交到许许多多的想学中文的美国朋友，和一些住在美国的中国人。

我的朋友们，如果你也想交一个住在中国的，用他自己国家的母语中文说话的中国朋友的话，联系我吧。

smiley520520@163.com (MSN和电子邮件)

364183196@qq.com (QQ是在中国非常流行的聊天软件)

我的兴趣还挺广泛的，像是各种各样的好莱坞电影，还有我们国家本土的优秀电影,电视或电脑游戏什么的，广告艺术，上网，学习外语，编程等等。

真感谢我们之间的缘分啊（不知道该怎么翻译“缘分”，它真是个伟大的中文词语），我们会越过大洋成为亲密的朋友，所以，我将标题定为“我的渴望，穿越大洋”（这个好题目是在一篇英语文章上看到的）。

Understanding and Appreciative Friends (高山流水 gao shan liu shui)

Understanding and Appreciative Friends

During the Spring and Autumn Period(770-476B.C.).there was a man whose name was Yu Boya.  Yu boya famous music master at that time, having a good command of the temperament and superb skills in playing the musical instrument.  He was bright and eager to learn when he was young.  He had formally acknowledged several experts as his teachers,and his skills in playing the musical instrument had already reached a fairly high level.  But he still felt that he could not superbly express the various things which had deeply impressed him.  Knowing what was in his mind, his teacher took him to the penglai Island, a fabled abode of immortals, on the East China Sea by boat.  On the island,his teacher let him enjoy the natural scenarios and listen to the roaring of the great waves.  looking into the distance, Boya saw that the waves were turbulent and that the white breakers leapt skywards.  Sea birds were circling in the air, and their crying was very pleasant to the ear.  Trees were green and intriguing feeling welled up in his mind, as if he had heard the harmonious and charming music of nature.  He couldn't help taking his musical instrument and playing it .  He followed his inclinations while he was playing,and incorporated the beautiful nature with his music,thus reaching a realm of thought he had never experienced before.  Seeing this,the teacher said to him,''You have mastered the art of playing."

Once,on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, he was boating for sight-seeing.  The moon was bright and a cool breeze was blowing gently.  With myriads of thoughts welling up in his mind, he began to play the musical instrument.  The melodious music became more and more beautiful when a man on the bank shouted "bravo!"  Hearing the shouting,  Boya came out of the boat,and saw a woodcutter standing on the bank.  He knew that this man was keenly appreciative of his talents, because he understood his music.  He immediately invited the woodcutter to his boat and , full of zest, he played the musical instrument for him.  When Boya played a piece of music eulogizing the high mountains,the woodcutter said,"wonderful!The melody is as magnificent and dignified as Mount Tai which reaches to the sky!"  When he played a piece of music depicting the turbulent waves,the woodcutter said,"Wonderful!The melody is as vast and mighty as the great rivers!"Boya was excited,and said,"Bosom friend! You are really my bosom friend!"  That woodcutter was Zhong Ziqi.  Since then,they had been very good friends.

This story appears in The Works of Lie Zi.From this story,people have derived the set phrase "high mountain and running water" to refer to understanding and appreciative friends.  This set phrase is also used to refer to melodious music.

gao1     shan1     liu2     shui3
高     山     流     水

春秋时代,有个叫俞伯牙的人,精通音律,琴艺高超,是当时著名的琴师.俞伯牙年轻的时候聪颖好学,曾拜高人为师,琴技达到水平,但他总觉得自己还不能出神入化地表现对各种事物的感受.伯牙的老师知道他的想法后,就带他乘船到东海的蓬莱岛上,让他欣赏大自然的景色,倾听大海的波涛声.伯牙举目眺望,只见波浪汹涌,浪花激溅;海鸟翻飞,鸣声入耳;山林树木,郁郁葱葱,如入仙境一般.一种奇妙的感觉油然而生,耳边仿佛咯起了大自然那和谐动听的音乐.他情不自禁地取琴弹奏,音随意转,把大自然的美妙融进了琴声,伯牙体验到一种前所未有的境界.老师告诉他:"你已经学了."

一夜伯牙乘船游览.面对清风明月,他思绪万千,于是又弹起琴来,琴声悠扬,渐入佳境.忽听岸上有人叫绝.伯牙闻声走出船来,只见一个樵夫站在岸边,他知道此人是知音当即请樵夫上船,兴致勃勃地为他演奏.伯牙弹起赞美高山的曲调,樵夫说道:"真好!雄伟而庄重,好像高耸入云的泰山一样!"当他弹奏表现奔腾澎湃的波涛时,樵夫又说:"真好!宽广浩荡,好像看见滚滚的流水,无边的大海一般!"伯牙兴奋色了,激动地说:"知音!你真是我的知音."这个樵夫就是钟子期.从此二人成了非常要好的朋友.

故事出自《列子·汤问》.成语"高山流水",比喻知己或知音,也比喻音乐优美.

Hey, I am a Chinese native speaker. I am here to meet some new friends, share interests, talk about Chinese of course:) I am in Delaware now

Hi Poddies,

There has recently been discussion within the ChinesePod community about the small number of users who come here primarily to learn English, and post language exchange messages on the boards. However, ChinesePod is not the best place for such messages, which are actually considered as spam.
We welcome ALL users who want to participate in the ChinesePod community, to enjoy the bilingual exchange and help improve their own (and others'!) language skills. Indeed, we are very grateful to the local Chinese users who contribute so much to the community in this way.
However, out of respect to our users who pay to learn Chinese here and may have been irritated by such postings, the authors of the spam messages will be advised to participate constructively in the community and pointed in the direction of EnglishPod.com. Spam will be removed from the site.

Thanks for your understanding and we look forward to your participation here at ChinesePod or over at EnglishPod.com!

this is a chinese girl inviting u to a new world/

would u like to have a seat here?

hope to make friends here,

Hi everyone,my english name is Ariel and i am 19 .this summer i will go to a university  and major in foreign.So i want to make foreign friends to practice foreign languages.I am interested in Korean,Japanese,Englishi,French,Italian and so on.Of course i am glad to heip you learn Chinese and give you a hand as possible as i can!I will appreciate a response from you at your earst convenience!

Hi ,want to find a native CH speaker to talk or just make friend with in SHANGHAI? At least, I can be a guide to you. Just feel free to contact me if you have any interest: benhzu@hotmail.com, 13918701123

It's absolutely 'No Charge', coz I just want to find someone who can speak English with me.

我期望交外国朋友（澳大利亚的最好，其他国家的朋友也欢迎：），我可以免费帮助他（她）学习普通话，当然我也希望能从He or She 哪里了解到他们国家的风土人情，谢谢，我会简单的英语。我来自重庆，我的手机号15025404658