User Comments - dariath

Posted on: Lesson Preview, New Team Member

I've taken a semester of Japanese, and I'm currently taking my first semester of Chinese. I've found I rarely confuse the two, although I sometimes perfer using a Japanese phrase instead of Chinese (Aiya verses yare yare). But, as for confusing the two? Not so much. I do find Japanese easier to pronounce, since there's no tones and I know I'm not screwing it up possibly. Heh.

Posted on: New Lessons, Video, and Groups

The thing you have to understand is this is a website to help learn Chinese, yes. But, it's also a website designed for english speakers to learn Chinese. Everything about it says so, all the lesson descriptions that arn't in Chinese are in English. The people who do the lessons speak English and Chinese. It's for english speakers.

Not to say it doesn't help others out, but English is a very important language in this world. It's widely used in other country's. Malaysia, Singapore, China, etc. So, if you don't speak English well... I hate to be blunt, but you're in trouble.

As for 1 lesson a week. Yes, people would like more. But it takes take to make the lesson plan, record the lesson, record the dialog, record the vocab and supliments, record the expansion sentences, and input all of this into the website. The video's itself are a bonus that if you enjoy it, great. If you don't, then.. don't click them. Pretty simple.

Just my 2 cents.