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Posted on: The Meaning of Meaning
December 30, 2013 at 11:47 PM

Check out the Task I uploaded for this lesson! Download

Posted on: Chinese Food at Foreign Prices
December 23, 2013 at 11:12 PM

First task! Nervous even just speaking to a microphone : ) Download

Posted on: Chinese Food at Foreign Prices
December 13, 2013 at 9:05 PM

Check out the second to last item on the menu in the lesson graphic. The inadvertent hilarity of computerized translations.

Posted on: Sightseeing at Tiananmen
July 30, 2008 at 1:51 AM

Hi. Long time listener, first time caller : ) Two questions to the community at large:

1. Anybody else think it's a bit challenging to distinguish 早 (zao3 - see "good morning" lesson) from 走 (zou3)? Any advice (other than "keep listening!" ; ) ?

2. Why does the "ou" in 右 (you4) sound like "oh" (like "yo-yo") but the "ou" in 走 (zou3) sound like "ow" (like in "how")? At least that's how it sounds to me. Anybody else? Is it the tones? Is the initial affecting the final through some implicit rule (like two third tones become second-third)?

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