In the spirit of the Olympics, we here at ChinesePod bring you a fully interactive site dedicated to the most spectacular athletic competition on Earth, happening right here on Chinese soil for the first time in its history: http://chinesepod.com/olympics/  You'll find:

Hi all, Another post after I keep being absent from Cpod weeks at a time... and so much miss all of you and the community... but been busy moving back to China. Maybe more time soon. Also been busy in my one week between my school where I'm getting a masters in Chinese and coming to China by visiting America and seeing my 2 year old nephew in Idaho. Now that he finally speaks short English sentences, I decided to see how well he could pick up Chinese... and it is so amazing how quickly and accurately he could repeat the words I taught him!! It goes to show that when you learn Chinese from an age where you don't give a damn about tones, but are a good immitator already, that you can learn Chinese fast. So, in my last day in the States before going to China (and before making a mad rush to get a flat within 12 hours of being here, and attending a wedding in less than 24 hours) I managed to come up with the idea of filming what Isaac (以撒，我的外甥）had learned. Thought you'd all like to see the video, and encourage you all to learn Chinese as early as possible!! :)

I may end up being the only member of this group but thought I'd give it a try anyway.

Dear all,

after trying all sorts of keyboard drivers on my windows laptop and discussing with IT nerds, Chinese and Laowei firends snd considering psychotherapy instead I still have found no way of displaying the 4 tones in the Pinyin writing.

I am not very fond of writing numbers behind every syllable.

Anybody has any ideas for a software / Keyboard driver?

How do you folks in CHinesepod do it?

大家好！ Just subscribed today! I'm really excited because I've been listening to these podcasts a lot lately, but never had the chance to subscribe. I'm glad I did!

Ok, so I just got back from living in Taiwan for two years (and just like Amber, I'm going to have to adjust my 說法 a little bit. Ok.. maybe more than just a little bit). But as you know in Taiwan, they only use traditional characters （繁體字。 《這個你們看得懂嗎？ 哈哈） I'm going to continue studying Chinese, but I know that studying simplified characters will be a lot more advantageous. I have a little over 2,000 characters memorized, and I'm trying to find out the tips and tricks of how to recognize simplified characters with a traditional character background. Does anyone have any similar experiences? Or is it just 'hey, just get used it to it!' type deal? Let me know!

hey..everyone.

I am new here and from china.I found this website by search of google.there are a lot interesting things here.even I find so much chinese lessones in this website.that's really helpful for the people who want to learn chinese.

About me,I have been learning English for one year by myself.I found this "difficulty" language is very sexy.now I am interesting in the western culture,especially movies,musics,sports..etc. in fact,I found a way to learn English here.hmm...I can listen to the simple chinese dialogs,and I found it means in English.so I can leaning chinese(actually,I am good at it) and english at the same time.even if I am still a beginner of English.but I think I can learn it better in the near future.as you learn chinese.

hey,my grammar still bad,let's go ahead..

Hello ,

    I am Golden Chen from China.

    I am looking for some English teachers to teach English in Chinese College, University and school.

    So if you have interesting to teach English in China.

    Please contact me. My email is : sinojob@foxmail.com

    My msn is e3588473747@hotmail.com

    My mobile is 0086-13588473747

    My tel is 0086-591-88989022

    Ofcause if you have any question in leaning Chinese ,you can contact me, I will to help you in my best:)

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）。

Here is a commonly asked question.This was recently discussed here

我爱这个歌！

Yeh.. I know it's on the Secret (不能说秘密) album again. I just didn't realise how good this song was till I heard it a week or so ago. I had completely ignored it because I was enjoying the classical music so much.

大家好！

For those of you looking for a good translation tool that pops up when you hover over the Chinese characters, the cheap (free) software is the great "Chinese Pera-kun" plugin for the Firefox web browser. However, what if you don't like Firefox? What about all the other applications that you use, which you have to read Chinese characters on? Like MSN Messenger, QQ, Emails and other applications? Since Chinese Pera-kun is a plugin for Firefox, it only works within the constraints of Firefox.

I'm not sure if there are other products out there like this "MDBG Chinese Reader".. in fact there probably are but the reason this one is so good, at least for me, is that it uses my favourite online dictionary as the source for all the translations. That online dictionary of course is MDBG.

The Chinese Reader program is sadly not free and the price tag for the full version is kind of expensive ($59USD) but the value I got out of the 15 day free trial made me easily decide that it was worth it. Even after the free trial runs out, you can continue to use it but no updates, technical support is forum based only and the performance is a lot slower.

The great thing about it is that I can select text and then step through the text on the translation panel. I can pin the translation panel on the screen so it doesn't move or let it follow my mouse around. It also has a quick look-up dictionary right on the task bar so I don't need to wait for the usual web page to load. Obviously another great feature is that it handles all applications with Chinese text, so now I can much more easily practise my Chinese with people on MSN Messenger without having to slowly translate what is being said in the chat.

In the past, when I got emails with Chinese characters, I would have to copy and paste the text into a translation tool like Google or for smaller sentences, paste into Firefox and use the Pera-kun plugin. However, now I just have the one interface for everything! It's so convenient.

I can even save "favourite words" into a personal list so I can practise new words I have learned later when I have time. Also, when you look at a translation in Pera-kun it only gives you one translation. So if the character has multiple meanings and pronunciations, MDBG gives them all to you at the same time. A great example of this is the character 说 in Pera-kun it always shows it as shuì which means "to persuade" but with MDBG it shows both shuì and shuō, which means "to speak" or "to say".

This second usage is the most common use of 说, so for a beginner Pera-kun can actually be quite misleading and unhelpful in many contexts. Also, when you highlight a series of characters by selecting them with the mouse, it displays them all in the dialogue at once in the same order as they are on the screen, with any English text included. If the two or more characters form a common phrase, they are joined together. As you move your mouse over each of them in the translation panel, the translation appears below the other text, making it much, much easier to read a whole sentence at the same time and not get lost within all the different characters.

Here's a sample picture:

You can click the image for a bigger picture to see it better.

OK, I'm a Chinese indeed......so actually I'm looking for some one who speak English so we could learn from each other : )Anyone interested?

                                                           Liuliwuyu

看这里！我本身就是中国人......所以事实上我是想要找一个说英语的伙伴这样我们就可以互相学习了: ) 有人感兴趣吗？

                                                           琉璃舞雩

Hi everyone,

I'm surfing around the web looking for Chinese language resources and I came across this one.

Looks great and I maybe looking forward to learning more Chinese on Chinese pod.

Is Chinese pod team from Shanghai? the 3 of you? where is the Shanghainese male teachers for Chinese?

I've always thought they were great as I had one in college, is China short on Chinese language male teachers?

i use the website www.ultimatechinese.com to learn standar mandarin, i think it is better.

大家好。我是中国大学生。我相信我可以帮助大家解决你们学汉语的问题的。而且我想通过和大家交流来提高我的英文水平的。所以有任何问题问我就行啦！我动用我所有的关系来认真回答。

With the rapid development of China,Chinese has gaind more and more popularity all over the world.How is the current status of it in your area and how is your opinin about this phenomena?

Welcome to join us and show your opinion.

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Da jia hao :

   I am a Chinese teacher teaching foreigners .I have been working for two years.Is there anybody who wants to study Chinese from me ? I can help you grammer or oral Chinese or HSK exam.If you are interested please contact me

wangxl-1986@163.com       Lucy

Why are you learning Chinese? Will it help you at work? Is Mandarin your ticket to a life of adventure? Are you just a mental masochist? Listen to today's lesson and learn how to tell others why you're learning this beautiful and challenging language.

A joke on a Chinese site lists 40 Chinesewords for "wife" and 27 for "husband."  Check it out:

http://www.zhangjiang.cn/bbs/2009-7/2/200972173013215100.html

I am a chinese working in shanghai!

I came across this site unexpectedly

So ,I hope to make friends unexpectedly,too!

黑夜给了我黑色的眼睛，我却用他来寻找光明！

i'm a chinese. and i'm good at mandarin.however,i was fed up by my terrible english.^^ so,we can help each other and make grate progress.i'm a good-tempered person and never let u down,so give me a hand!^^ by the way,i'm a boy in a college,China.

looking forward to your earlier reply.

my msn:medke-luka@hotmail.com

email:luka@medke.com

我是一名中国大学生，现在想学英语，如果你想学习中文，恰好你会英语，也许我们可以相互学习。我的MSN:qsdxyxygm@hotmail.com。

Hi,I'm Chinese,I'm so glad to find here and meet you all,I desire to make friends here.I'm learning English now . I'm a beginner and I apologize for my poor English,so don't laugh at me if I made mistakes,I hope that we can learn from each other.thanks

大家好，我是个中国人，我很高兴找到这个网站，当然我不是来学汉语的，而是希望在这里可以结交一些外国朋友，因为我正在学英语，当然我的英语很差劲，所以如果我上面这段英文有什么错误，各位老师千万别笑我啊，我很希望能帮助外国朋友学汉语的同时我也能向对方学习英语，我们互相学习，谢谢。

第一次使用chinese pod．要多多学习

  IM chinese ,do you want to practice your chinese and make great progress? you can contact me .but you should teach me english in return .thats win-win .you get what you want ,so and i.contact me !

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I am a Chinese student of 20. I am willing to help foreign friends with their Chinese! I try...

My MSN: la#nx#ti#an(at)msn.com(excluding the #'s)

你想学汉语，我也想练英语，直接对话是学习语言的最佳路子！

Chinese Learning &　Chinese 900 are now available on the App Store .

Chinese Learning is a good learning assistant which contains essential study elements of listening, reading and writing. You can use it to study Chinese comprehensively.
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=330615883&mt=8&s=143441

Chinese Learning
For Learning Chinese, includes listening, reading, speaking and writing
Containing 3500 Chinese characters
Providing human pronunciation for words, phrases and sentences
Viewing the corresponding translation of phrases & sentences between Chinese and English／Indonesia／Malaysia／Korean／Thailand／Japanes e
Showing demonstration of writing Chinese characters
Providing the function of Pronunciation Correction



Chinese 900 is a portable tool for helping conversation which provides several example sentences. It provides Chinese, English and Korean sentences to facilitate your communication.
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=330618461&mt=8&s=143441

Chinese 900
For learning conversation in Chinese
Providing Chinese example sentences with comparison of English and Korean
Set example sentences in 12 situations
Language shift in Chinese, English and Korean
Providing sentences Searching
Providing Human Pronunciation

Please provide us with your feedback after you have tried out the app.
Thanks very much!

Some free code:

Chinese Learning:

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Chinese 900

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i am a chinese student.i want to practice my english,so i want to find a person to help me ,i also can speak chinese with him.i have many times to talk with you. so if someone want to make friends with me , you can communicate with me!i am glad to do it.

my email is laogao14god@gmail.com

my QQ is 1265947230,plz contract me

Recently, my company will arrange a programme by travelling to China, i'm the organizer but I don't know any chinese right now. Actually, I have made some friends on the internet, but still I'm not quite confident to cummunicate with chinese people without any difficult. I'm always wondering which learning method is the most helpful, because if I begin to study when I go to China, it will be too late.

Hey everyone.

I'm Richard zhou, and I'm Chinese, I want to learn English, so I want to exchange English with someone. I seek someone who want learn Chinese, also, I can learn English from him/her.

If OK, pls contact me asap.  :)

Traditional Chinese Version:

When you are in China, somebody is asking you a question, how to answer him/her?

Use the following vocabularies:

我　　　　I

抱歉　　　sorry

中國人　　Chinese

英國人　　English

法國人　　French

美國人　　American

例子example1:

Q:你好，請問XXXXXXXX?

Q:Hello, may I ask you XXXXXXXX?

A:抱歉，我不是中國人。我是英國人。

A:I am sorry, I am not Chinese. I am English. 

例子example2:

Q:你好，請問XXXXXXXX?

Q:Hello, may I ask you XXXXXXXX?

A:對不起，我不是中國人。我是法國人。

A:I am sorry, I am not Chinese. I am French.

Note:

抱歉 and 對不起 have the same meaning. It's means "sorry". It is a common word in Chinese.

Chinese, in English, it can means people from China and a kind of language. But in Chinese, there are two different words. "中國人" means people from China. "中文"or"普通話"or"國語" are means the language.

Simplified Chinese Version:

When you are in China, somebody is asking you a question, how to answer him/her?

Use the following vocabularies:

我　　　　I

抱歉　　　sorry

中国人　　Chinese

英国人　　English

法国人　　French

美国人　　American

例子example1:

Q:你好，请问XXXXXXXX?

Q:Hello, may I ask you XXXXXXXX?

A:抱歉，我不是中国人。我是英国人。

A:I am sorry, I am not Chinese. I am English. 

例子example2:

Q:你好，请问XXXXXXXX?

Q:Hello, may I ask you XXXXXXXX?

A:对不起，我不是中国人。我是法国人。

A:I am sorry, I am not Chinese. I am French.

Note:

抱歉 and 对不起 have the same meaning. It's means "sorry". It is a common word in Chinese.

Chinese, in English, it can means people from China and a kind of language. But in Chinese, there are two different words. "中国人" means people from China. "中文"or"普通话"or"国语" are means the language.

我是一个中国女孩，真高兴这里有这么多学汉语的人。我对语言很感兴趣，希望能认识想学汉语的朋友，大家彼此学习，如果有需要帮助的地方，请给我留言~^_^

Hi，all chinese learners：

    So happy to see you all learning chinese in full play，and that remind me of ten years ago in china learning chinese .At the begin，It's really hard to understand the chinese characters，all written with  horizontals，verticals，left-falling strokes and right-falling strokes etc.But the one part of chinese atracts me a lot,it's chinese prounouciation,smooth and sweet.By the way I knew a chinese girl with sweetie  voice,and she look like an angle.Ok,forget it,some guys might think a lot than i said,ahah.

   Actually,china is a very modern,international country,people there with hospitality and great minds,when they say one words, in fact they have considered how to express right more than a thousand times.This is a fraction why chinese people have a history of five thousands years.It's amazing,guys.If you wanna know further about china and its culture and people there,plus the sweet girl and the gorgeous sceneries.Don't ever listen to the rumors about this beautiful place.You wanna test the "words" slandered china,just go there and see yourself.you gonna know it all.

   I love this country totally,even if I am a foreigner there.

Showing off my chinese foundation below:

    总说这是一个美丽的邂逅，但我觉得这是上天特意的撮合，其实从见到你第一面起，我就隐隐觉得我们前世有过联系，而且不是一般的关系。或许，今生，我们或许可以续前世因缘，一定可以的。因为我清楚记得在前世虔诚的说过爱你一万年。然后，你笑了。上天也笑了，才有了我们今生的重逢。

    People say that this  a beautiful encounter，but I confirm  we bring together by God。When I saw you first time，some indistinct feeling hit on me and I know we made a special relationship last lifetime。Maybe，we can continue the affection of previous life ，sure it do，because I clearly remember what I said prayerfully，“I love U a ten thousand years”。You smiled sheepishly。God saw that all ，so we can meet again in this life.

Still can not speak Chinese as locals? Come to us~ We have more than 20 years experience of Chinese language training for overseas friends.....

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2010 Spring Course:  Mar.4-Jul.9 2010

1. HSK intensive class: 8:30-14:55

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Still can not speak Chinese as locals? Come to us~ We have more than 20 years experience of Chinese language training for overseas friends.....

Beijing Institute of Economic Management

2010 Spring Course:  Mar.4-Jul.9 2010

1. HSK intensive class: 8:30-14:55

2. Morning systematic class: 8:30-11:55

3. Afternoon systematic class:  13:00-14:55

Welcome to us: +86-10-64721897, Stacey 

 Room 107, 5^th Block, No. 19 Huajiadi St. Chaoyang District, Beijing

For those of you that are in Minnesota, The Ming Chiao chapter of the National Sumi-e society meets every other month. There are classes in calligraphy and brush technique and other aspects of oriental culture, both Chinese and Japanese. Lilly, the founder, is Chinese.

Meetings are usually around Rochestor or the Twin Cities.  The March meeting is tentatively scheduled for Elk River on the 20th. I will post more detail later.

Hi there Poddies,

I recently wrote a short story (my first) in Chinese - I consider this quite a milestone and it was very fun to do.

I'd be interested to see stories from other cpod users. Anybody tried?

I wonder if cpod would be interested in putting a competition out there? A story comp would even more interesting than a twitter/photo-caption competition, I reckon.

hi guys.. im new to this page, im just curious about the expressions of professional chinese players when they score,. it sounds like "sa" or "cha"what is it exactly and its meaning?

I can offer help in your Chinese learning. Free of charge :)

QQ:248702827

Msn:passer_byjun@yahoo.com.cn

i'm a Nanchangnese,so if you live in Nanchang,i can also go out with you

I am a chinese,i want to learn english and help you learn chinese,you can call me. msn:ykzhao@live.com

I am a chinese,i want to learn english and help you learn chinese,you can call me. msn:ykzhao@live.com

I would love to learn Chinese. I am in the last form at school now.Is it very hard ? Could I speak to somebody who wants to study it or already knows it?