User Comments - ketangli
ketangli
Posted on: Seeking Without Finding -- 寻隐者不遇
April 28, 2009 at 3:52 PMHiya, Just wanted to say I really like the poetry casts. Keep it up! You got fans.
Posted on: Badminton
August 5, 2008 at 8:14 PMoooh i am terrible at badminton, but when i studied in taiwan, i found a racket in my dorm closet and had to give it a try. if anyone is ever in the rochester ny area and wants to practice badminton AND chinese, let me know!! great lesson!
Posted on: Saved by the Gong: Math class
April 9, 2008 at 8:30 PMThanks to everyone who added supplemental vocab here! I'm dating a mathematician. :P
Posted on: Pedestrian Peril
January 21, 2008 at 6:47 PMi agree with the comment that understanding phonemes just happened overnight with chinese for me, for some reason. the other difficulty in understanding spoken chinese is that chinese has a TON of homophones and near-homophones! so reading disambiguates more quickly than speech in a lot of cases.
Posted on: The Final Jizhou Pieces
January 10, 2008 at 7:57 PMThanks for having a series. I definitely was more vigilant about doing lessons because I had some plot info to look forward to. Helped with my motivation, because there were familiar characters and places to find out more about! I hope there's another one soon!
Posted on: Chinese Identity
May 31, 2007 at 9:32 PMthis one is really great. i felt like the target level throughout was really consistent between dialogue and discussion, which i value. also, i like the way it took some words i already knew but discussed the subtleties of those words and their synonyms. that's kind of what i was hoping to get out of the upper intermediate lessons in addition to learning NEW vocab of course!
Posted on: Lili and Zhang Liang 15: Uncomfortable Encounter in a Bar
May 29, 2007 at 6:02 PMmikeinewshot, i'm always happy to see more vocab. this lesson was okay, but it seemed like there was a big mismatch in the difficulty level of the dialogue (which seemed really hard to follow/understand) and the level of the john/jenny thing (which seemed too easy). maybe it was having 4 speakers that were hard to distinguish?
Posted on: Paying Child Support
May 23, 2007 at 4:57 PMhowdy. i studied a lot of Chinese in college and even studied abroad in Taipei...but a few years into my grad program, I've really let a lot of stuff slip away. Now I just paid for a basic membership, so I'm going to try to reallllly listen to one lesson a day. I study psycholinguistics, and one of my new research projects is on Chinese classifiers (aka measure words), so hopefully that will give me a work-related excuse to practice! Just wanted to say hi.
Posted on: Getting Old Isn't Easy
May 2, 2009 at 4:19 AMREALLY enjoyed this lesson. Some useful vocab and a cute dialogue. I wouldn't mind seeing some geriatric drama series pop up on this site.