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Lesson Introduction
The days of our lives. Like sands through the hourglass. Today, on this most momentous of days, let us all listen to this podcast, rekindle, reminisce, kiss passionately, sing kumbaya, and vow eternal love to each other. If you don't know what day it is, do not admit it. Either way, join in the celebrations of this auspicious day for Chinese learners everywhere... and figure out what the heck is going on!
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kasamakid says
October 1, 2008
那，关于这个国庆节的课，我觉得你1984洛杉矶的奥运会音乐的选择很有意思：）
chanelle77 says
October 1, 2008
Conratulations with this special day and the thousands of lessons to come! This is nr. 1000 right?
pretzellogic says
October 1, 2008
Congrats, CPOD! A nice sign of health. Let us all know when you reach 1000 employees.
monica5 says
October 1, 2008
Congrats! !
qingdaossadventuresdotcom says
October 1, 2008
这个国庆节为我不是特别的日子，我还应该工作:( 我的朋友们在北京看现场摇滚演出，我在家里工作。热烈的祝贺！！加油!
chas33735 says
October 1, 2008
Congratulations! Here's to the next 1000 lessons!
darylk says
October 1, 2008
Gongxi, gongxi. Amazing cpod stamina, creativity, good humor, technical expertise, professionalism! I can't say enough in cpod's praise. Hope the next 1000 are as much fun!
pchenery says
October 1, 2008
Congrats to the CPOD Team and thanks for every single lesson.
By the way, why does it say 1,159 lessons on the intro webpage ?
pchenery says
October 1, 2008
OK, here's a special 1,000 anniversary grammar question:
记得和想起来有什么区别？
Can they both be used interchangeably ?
pretzellogic says
October 1, 2008
BTW, it's still October 1 here in the US, so Happy National Day!
macallus88 says
October 1, 2008
pchenery,
Newbie + Elementary + Intermediate + Upper Intermediate + Advanced + Media = 968
I assume 32 have been taken off
968 + Vocab Tour + Movie Madness + Dear Amber + News and Features + Qing Wen = 1159
joannah says
October 1, 2008
Yes, some of the very early ones were taken off to be redone to bring them up to the same standard as other ones. Including the removed ones, this is number 1000
pchenery says
October 1, 2008
OK, thanks macallus88
johns says
October 1, 2008
Congratulations. Learning Chinese would not be half as much fun without you guys. Best wishes for the next 1000 lessons!!!!
obitoddkenobi says
October 1, 2008
Congratulations ChinesePod! Thankyou for all your great lessons! Keep going strong for the next 1,000!
greggs says
October 1, 2008
congrats on your 1000 lessons. A real accomplishment. I appreciate all of your efforts and look forward to the next 1000 lessons.
you are all great and a pleasure to listen to. I just gave you a recommendation today at the office. I met with some who is doing work in China and mentioned to me that he was thinking of using Rosetta Stone to learn mandarin. I highly recommended your site.
Good luck. amazing team.
sfrrr says
October 1, 2008
In Yiddish, the traditional anniversary wish was: Biz a hundert un tsvanstik yor--for a hundred and twenty years. Now, some people say: Biz a tausent yor (a thousand years). For you guys, I guess we'd have to say: Zhu nimen dao yi wan ge podcasts.
Mazeltov.
frank says
October 1, 2008
Congratulations, folks, and thanks for introducing me to a love of learning I never thought possible. I've been away for a while and just returned today to find this most excellent lesson.
Best wishes to you all on your continued success!
bababardwan says
October 1, 2008
1000 de Gōngxǐ CPod !!!
I have been looking forward to this lesson since joining,and am so glad it's being celebrated .You guys are just the greatest.When you come across something like CPod in your life you realise it's a very rare treasure and it feels like you've struck gold.So I am so glad to hear that you're looking forward to the 10,000 th lesson;very reassuring.So many thanks Ken,Jenny,Amber,Connie,Jiaojie,Joy,David and the rest of the CPod crew for the enrichment you bring to our lives.I hope you all really enjoy your well deserved celebrations.Take care.
SiYao says
October 1, 2008
恭喜恭喜! Thanks to all staff at ChinesePod for enriching my learning experience. You are deserving of the highest accolades for internet based learning. I'm a long way to becoming proficient but I'm having fun along the way.
Si Yao
chistudent says
October 1, 2008
恭喜你们！
再接再厉！
rich says
October 1, 2008
Hey, want to say congratulations to ChinesePod, Jenny, John, Ken, Amber and the rest for 1000 lessons. Been waiting for this day to roll around, but then am a little late to get on and say something (as it has been usual these days). 恭喜恭喜!! Does this mean you can now 关门 and all go home? Ha ha... wishing you another 1000 more lessons to come (and does just 1000 lessons themselves seem a lot??!!)
misterjess says
October 1, 2008
恭喜你们，
I just think that what you are doing is amazing.
Keep up the good work .
谢谢大家
Jess
changye says
October 1, 2008
千变万化的讲课内容
没有千篇一律的话题
千娇百媚的女老师们
千言万语道不尽感谢
中文播客千岁千千岁
houban says
October 1, 2008
You don't look 1,000!! Keep up the great work.
kesirui says
October 1, 2008
加油 Cpod！1000!
Would that be an auspicous number in China?
I love getting to meet all the other Chinese pod workers!
tendzin says
October 1, 2008
I have studied Chinese for more twenty years, but I don't make much progress. Cpod includes some of the best learning tools that I have found anywhere. The Cpod staff helps make studying interesting and enjoyable. Thanks!
joelaessig says
October 1, 2008
Herzlichen Glückwunsch!!! (Ken, I know that you understand Déguó)
I really love to go to work since i have found CPod for my iPod.
感谢你对我的帮助
Joe
goulnik says
October 1, 2008
这课文号码是1000，近一千〇〇一，希望不像阿拉伯夜，从不结束!
This is lesson number 1000, approaching 1001, I hope it never ends, unlike the Arabian nights.
gra55hopper says
October 1, 2008
Congratulations and I hope you enjoyed the mooncakes.
Glenn
henning says
October 1, 2008
Congratulations to the lesson with the No. 1000. Part of my life since April 2006. :)
Looking forward to No 10,000. It would surprise me if Bazza, Goulnik, Changye, RJ, Calkins, Light and me would't be still around by then. :)
perle2 says
October 1, 2008
A huge milestone- 1000 lessons represents a lot of work by a very dedicated group of people. Your huge following of subscribers is the proof that what you do is greatly needed and enjoyed!
everett says
October 1, 2008
Congratulations CP. I agree with all the positive remarks so far :-)
I'd like to especially add how much I appreciate the excellent voice-actors and the sound engineer(s). The way the latter blend the sound effects with the dialogues is very effective. I've been noticing this over and over again recently: how they work in well-chosen little details to accentuate a certain moment. That, together with the great voice acting, lends the dialogues an ambience that makes learning them both easier and more fun.
And of course the lesson hosts themselves set a standard others strive to live up to.
Keep em coming!
mikeinewshot says
October 2, 2008
I would like to add my support and congratulations too. Keep innovating!
shanghaichanges says
October 2, 2008
my god 1000 lessons, I never realised it's so many now.
Congratulations Cpod!!!
shanghaichanges says
October 2, 2008
What year did Cpod first start?
and also what's the very first Cpod lesson? I'd like to hear that and see how far everything has advanced.
joannah says
October 2, 2008
The first lesson was Basic Greetings on 5th september 2005. You can see what the site looked like in its first week at http://web.archive.org/web/20050924204811/http://chinesepod.com/
rjberki says
October 2, 2008
Well what can I say that hasnt been said. All good and all true. It has been a real pleasure to watch the growth in professionalism at cpod. I cant imagine it getting better, but Im sure it will.
RJ
rjberki says
October 2, 2008
Oh and Henning - I will be here for 10,000 ... God willing. Advanced in age and advanced in level. We should all meet in SH for this occaision. At the current rate, what will be the 10,000 lesson date?
kencarroll says
October 2, 2008
Thank you all very much for the kind words. It keeps us wanting to get better and better. I have no doubt that we will be will be celebrating the 2,000th lesson in a few years and I hope that we can continue to grow, develop, and innovate the service together with you.
Let me emphasize that community activity - your activity - contributes very, very significantly to the learning. Learning is a social thing. The more interaction, the more learning follows, so keep talking to us and telling us what you need to make the leanrning more effective.
rjberki says
October 2, 2008
Ken,
You are right about the community activity. The community here is unique, and a large part of what I find wonderful about cpod. It is a great pleasure to meet and interact with such high caliber people from all over the world. As for lesson 2000 - I have a goal. Advanced level. We'll see what happens.
philip8 says
October 2, 2008
Your team work counts.
It counts for the students to whom I recommend CPod.
It counts for the older learners to whom I recommend CPod.
Heck, dudes, it counts for me.
In our troubled world, team energy and eagerness and joy SHOULD count for bundles.
Congrats and onward.
light487 says
October 2, 2008
Awesome awesome awesome.. Congratulations on a monumental effort of getting this far and still being so strong!
Where's JohnB? :) I was hoping to hear from him as well.. just because.. well.. I was hoping.. haha.. :) Might have to wait till I come over and see you all in person. :)
Great lesson with many different meanings of the word "no". I always found it difficult to know which "no" and which "yes" to use. This really helps a lot. Also great use of the different holidays.. it's all so great.. Haven't heard a Elementary lesson with this much great stuff I can sink my teeth into for a while.
I thought 好好儿 meant more "serious".. I can't find the reference where I saw this at the moment but I am fairly sure it was using this chunk to emphasise the need to make "serious" effort.
ancalagon says
October 2, 2008
祝你们生日快乐！！ Here's to a thousand more! 干杯！
pinkjeans says
October 2, 2008
恭喜你们！万岁万岁万万岁！Or rather, 千课千课千千课！
sebire says
October 2, 2008
Thanks to all the team! It's been fun!
jackfrombelgium says
October 2, 2008
Hi,
1000 thanks from me.
Jack
slgii says
October 2, 2008
Congratulations! Keep up the good work.
All the best, Sara
karmatortoise says
Gongxi gongxi CPod! May your next 1000 episodes herald just as much growth as the first 1000.October 2, 2008
chris says
October 2, 2008
chris says
October 2, 2008
Not sure what happened to the editing in my previous post. Anyway, to repeat the question:
"Jintian you yi ge hen tebie de ren yao lai"
"Today someone special will come".
Is the "you3" necessary? Is there a grammar rule here?
Thanks, Chris
calkins says
October 2, 2008
Congrats CPod!!! The amazing staff, these 1,000 lessons, and the thousands of Cpoddies have enriched my Chinese learning beyond words.
Much appreciation for everyone's hard work, dedication, and knowledge.
vann0000 says
October 2, 2008
1000 lessons! Outstanding!
azerdocmom says
October 2, 2008
A thousand congratulations to Chinesepod!!!!!
Thank you Ken, Jenny, John, Amber and Connie from the bottom of my heart, for re-connecting me with my roots, for reigniting a love for my first language, and for reinvigorating my enthusiasm for learning and taking on a new challenge. Thank you for nurturing an incredible community of highly motivated, intelligent, enthusiastic and, most of all, really fun fellow classmates!
I wish continued great success and blessings, both professional and personal, for all the staff at ChinesePod.
huasen says
October 2, 2008
Congratulations Jenny, John, Ken, Amber, Connie and everyone at ChinesePod.
As one of the disgruntled ones who complained two years ago or so about the gulf between Elementary and Intermediate, I'd just like to pay tribute to how superbly you as a team responded to the customer feedback. The way John and Jenny in particular structured lessons to help aspirant Ellies make the transition was truly superb. I now really value the Chinese banter at Upper Intermediate, most of which I can understand, and I've even found a couple of the Advanced lessons within my reach. A huuuge amount of credit is due to you for this. Looking back I can't believe the progress I've made with your help.
干杯！
华森
cassielin says
October 2, 2008
Dear Chinesepod,
Congratulations! Please accept my late wishes! 1000lessons! I am so proud of you! Thank you chinesepod, you let more and more foreign friends get to know my country and my language! Every time when I listen to chinesepod lesson and read those threads, posts and comments on the community, I feel like chinesepod is a gift that I happen to get! I feel grateful that I can have fun with you guys here and learn more about Chinese and English! Chinesepod is amazing! It changes my life! Again, thank you chinesepod, thank you Ken and your team! I wish chinesepod can be top 1 podcast one day! You have already won those loyal users like henning, bazza, changye and so on, you will won more loyal users in the future, just keep on the good work!
听着大家的声音，我可以感受到你们的激动和喜悦，这1000课所包含的不仅仅是你们为全世界学习中文的朋友们准备的有关于学习中文的知识，还包含了你们的艰辛和汗水！有付出才会有收获，祝福你们！
rich says
October 2, 2008
I would have thought, going by Chinese interest in numbers, that lesson 999 should actually be the one celebrated... as it is 久久久 forever, and ever and ever... ha ha. Let's hope so!
bolinlaide says
October 2, 2008
Herzlichen Glückwunsch!!!
Ein 特别 Text von 趙元任 für euch:
trevorb says
October 2, 2008
And I missed this one yesterday because it was my 生日！But just to be really clear i am NOT yet 1000 :-) although I may well be before I move on to intermediate ;-)
What an honour to share my birthday with Chinese National day and CPods 1000th lesson.....
maike28 says
October 2, 2008
Major congrats! That's an an amazing accomplishment. I've learned an incredible amount of Chinese from you guys. Keep up the great work and here's to next 1000!
jennyzhu says
Thank u to all poddies for making 1000 lessons a wish come true! I'm on the road travelling,so getting online is a bit hard at the moment. Otherwise,I'd post a mega comment full of gratitude. But most importantly is that we will continue to make cpod a phenomenal learning experience.October 2, 2008
urbandweller says
October 2, 2008
谢谢cpod! I am honored to be part of your community of learners. I'm so excited to see what you will accomplish in another 1000 lessons! You guys are amazing. I appeciate the service that you offer and i am truly addicted to it now. I have made many new friends because of cpod and have learned so much. Thanks again and keep up the excellent work!
-Adam (urbandweller)
garry says
October 2, 2008
太好了人人在ChinesePod.
I was reading all the previous posts and I didn't think that I needed to say anything more, but then I thought better and so here I am.
My life has changed considerably in the last year or so, (for the better I hope). ChinesePod.com has been a part of this change, and I am grateful to everyone there. I am making progress with my Chinese language, but the best part is getting to know everyone here.
I have enjoyed it all and will into the future.
Beyond 2000!
changye says
October 2, 2008
Hi bolinlaide,
Thanks a lot for showing us the extraordinary interesting text “施氏食獅史”. To my surprise, all the characters used in it have the sound “shi”. I read it very carefully and found that the text completely makes sense in Chinese. Just amazing! As far as I know, probably only Chinese language can do such a trick.
According to Wikipedia (Taiwan), 赵元任 (1892-1982) is a great Chinese linguist, who spent his life as a researcher mainly in the US. He wrote the “施氏食獅史” in 1930s in order to prove the stupidity of the Chinese romanization movement that was very active in China in the first half of the 20th century.
huatuo says
October 2, 2008
Congrats to all at CPOD. 1,000 thanks for your excellent work! I look forward to CPOD each day and am learning more and more. Can't wait for the next 1,000 lessons. Cheers!
tarcy says
October 3, 2008
祝贺你们!! 一千课，真不简单! 我佩服你们。
你们Chinesepod继续加油! 听众朋友们也继续加油!
cassielin says
October 3, 2008
在这特别的时刻，我想起了一首特别的歌！
To our chinesepod《特别的爱给特别的你》
I wish I could be the guy who sing this song on the video. I want to sing it out!^_^特别的爱给特别的你！！！
mattwhyndham says
October 3, 2008
Congratulations and 加油 from me too. I think I first met Cpod at lesson 5 or so, and have listened to 500+ lessons since. Consequently I've whizzed from upper Newbie to lower Upper Intermediate (while doing old-school evening classes too). There's some things I know that the classes would never have taught me. Not only that, I feel what Chinese I do know is more natural and easy as a result. Best wishes for the next 1000!
HannahIm says
Congratulations not only to you but to all us Poddies too!!! I bet I'm not the only one who has gone from speaking zero Chinese all the way up to Upper-Intermediate. Thanks so much CP! Can't wait for the next 1000!October 3, 2008
excuter says
October 3, 2008
恭喜恭喜！祝大家1000的课快乐^_^
fred_02071622 says
October 3, 2008
chris says
1 day ago
Not sure what happened to the editing in my previous post. Anyway, to repeat the question:
"Jintian you yi ge hen tebie de ren yao lai"
"Today someone special will come".
Is the "you3" necessary? Is there a grammar rule here?
Thanks, Chris
It's OK whether you use "you3" or not in this situation. There is not strict grammar rule in this case. But seems people would like to use it most of the time.
fred_02071622 says
October 3, 2008
pchenery says
2 days ago
OK, here's a special 1,000 anniversary grammar question:
记得和想起来有什么区别？
Can they both be used interchangeably ?
“记得” means somthing in your mind clearly, you memorized it well and could repeat it as soon as you need.
While "想起来" means you have to think, and then some blured memories become clear in your mind.
pchenery says
October 3, 2008
hi fred_02071622,
thanks for that explanation...
now i'm clear
bazza says
October 3, 2008
Congratulations on the big 1K. That must mean I've been studing Chinese for nearly 3 years.
artkho says
October 4, 2008
恭喜恭喜！I'll just fast-forward to the 10,000th lesson and wish Jenny and everyone 万岁万岁! Oops! I guess I should say 万客万客！ （客as in 播客） :D
chiongzibide says
October 4, 2008
It was great you could share this day with my birthday, as well as my son's 21st birthday - both 2/10 !!
architpol says
October 4, 2008
Thanks CPod. You're a great help in my efforts to learn. I look forward to all of your lessons. And thank you Poddies for all of the "extras" we get with the good questions, insight and the fun that comes with it. Keep it up. I'll be here.
恭喜恭喜。
谢谢你们
lotsofwordsandnospaces says
October 4, 2008
I am always late to the party! I want to share my gratitude to all the team! I really appreciate all the work that goes into the website, and the production of the show.
Thank you all so much.
tommyb says
October 4, 2008
1000 lessons, big deal......no just kidding, I am a big fan of Chinese Pod, keep up the good work 祝贺 !!!
chinastar12 says
October 6, 2008
GO CHINESE POD!
Keep it up!
chillosk says
October 6, 2008
Congrats you guys! It was really cool getting to know the people behind the scenes, it was like a curtain call of a great act! Good job!
You guys can't start to imagine how you've changed the lives of everyone! :) 加油！
jesslyn15 says
October 7, 2008
WOWOW! congrats to Cpod! i never knew how many lessons there were! awsome!
i give 1000 thanks 2 you guys
evahui says
October 7, 2008
Thank you, bolinlaide and changye, for bringing up 趙元任's Chinese tongue twister. How brilliant a linguist he is!! I have never seen this tongue twister before, which is entirely made up of the sound 'shi' in different tones. And it made sense. Just for fun I translated this piece here:
An Account of Mr. Shi’s Eating Lions
Mr. Shi, a poet, who lives in a stone chamber, is very fond of (eating) lions, vows to eat ten of them (some day). Mr. Shi goes to the market frequently to check on (the arrival of ) lions. At 10 o’clock, ten lions happen to arrive at the market. At that time, Mr. Shi happens to arrive at the market. Mr. watches the ten lions. With his arrow-shooting skills, he made the ten lions die. Mr. picks up the carcasses of the ten lions and returns to his stone chamber. The stone chamber is wet. Mr. asks his attendant to wipe dry the stone chamber. With the stone chamber wiped, Mr. tries to eat the ten lions. While eating, he realizes that the ten lions are actually the carcasses of ten stone lions. Try explain this matter.
Thanks to ChinesePod for such fun learning and sharing of lost gem.
dpay02 says
October 7, 2008
谢谢chinesepod. 支持!
baishen says
October 7, 2008
Congratulations team, love your work.
pretzellogic says
October 7, 2008
mattwhyndham, HannahIm,
just when I started wondering if anyone was making the transition from newbie to advanced or upper-inter, and how long it took, and you guys weighed in. That's really cool to know.
ndhamer says
October 7, 2008
Ken:
After 1,000 lessons what have you learned about teaching the Chinese language to those of us who are still struggling with a very difficult language? Would you take time at this point and state what your views are on learning a new language as difficult as Chinese.
daimingwei says
October 8, 2008
"High Five!" 高五
or should I be saying "High One Thousand" 高一千!
Wow, what a milestone...
Thanks to Ken & Jenny for lifting the fog and making Chinese so much easier to understand.
Also thanks to Amber, Connie, Clay & JP who pump fun and interest back into learning the language and culture.
Special thanks to the community who continue to enlighten...and to all the people behind the scenes that makes ChinesePod #1 for so many users!
Cheers! 欢呼!
moniqueinchina says
October 8, 2008
not many things to add, just 1000 thanks to the team ! and please, go on with the great job.
to ndhamer : no, Chinese is not a difficult language if you love it, it just needs lots of passion, and practice. But it's also full of common sense and a huge sense of poetry / imagination. If you have that all and DECIDE you have time to learn it, it's almost easy ... especially with such a great team as CPod !
jesslyn15 says
October 9, 2008
yep u always need time for chinese :) no matter if its the movie, the food, the lang. ur doing. practice practice practice is what it takes, and obv. this web shows that. :) thanks again!
Jesslyn B.
jesslyn15 says
October 9, 2008
yep u always need time for chinese :) no matter if its the movie, the food, the lang. ur doing. practice practice practice is what it takes, and obv. this web shows that. :) thanks again!
Jesslyn B.
servant says
October 11, 2008
Congragulations ! Great Lessons. Don't think u need to re-do the old ones, just get on with the new !
stanimal says
March 28, 2009
恭喜， 太厉害！！ 我真怕cpod不工作的日子。。
travelgirl21 says
April 30, 2009
Wow. I'm a little late on the congratulations but love this website! Thanks so much
dfhsjkahf says
June 10, 2009
Just a pointless bit of trivia perhaps, but actually there was at least one lesson Jenny was not in. I remember an old intermediate lesson with John and Aggie. It was about standing in a line I believe. I remember it because I really liked Aggie's voice. Too bad she didn't do many lessons. I absolutely adore Jenny, but a little more variety would be nice, or at least occasionally a male Chinese teacher.
rich says
June 10, 2009
Funny, I was just telling my male Chinese friend the other day how I seem sooo much more fluent in talking Chinese to female Chinese friends... there does seem to be a big difference, even in how I am able to use the language to make a joke, or understand tone of voice, etc. It seems when I talk to a guy in Chinese, if I do, that it is more of a novelty thing, where when I talk to a girl, seems to be more natural due to how pretty much all my teachers have been female.