<![CDATA[Comments on: Guests, Interns and the 4th of July]]> 2010-07-03 18:00:00 <![CDATA[By: mjvito]]> Three cheers for recognizing that music/humanities majors are perfectly capable of having successful careers!  Good luck, Dan.

]]> Three cheers for recognizing that music/humanities majors are perfectly capable of having successful careers!  Good luck, Dan.

]]> <![CDATA[By: barto]]> Dear Chinesepod,

Now that the Shanghai language episodes are finished, I assume you will be moving onto other special features. Although, as an aside, I think it would be interesting if Chinesepod took the chance to continue providing Shanghai language education, something that's incredibly difficult to find in such a well organized and produced format as these last few episdoes. In any case, I hope there will be more dialect lessons, and I especially hope for more things that are Beijing related. I love anything Beijinghua related and hope to see this kind of content at some point!

Thanks!

]]> Dear Chinesepod,

Now that the Shanghai language episodes are finished, I assume you will be moving onto other special features. Although, as an aside, I think it would be interesting if Chinesepod took the chance to continue providing Shanghai language education, something that's incredibly difficult to find in such a well organized and produced format as these last few episdoes. In any case, I hope there will be more dialect lessons, and I especially hope for more things that are Beijing related. I love anything Beijinghua related and hope to see this kind of content at some point!

Thanks!

]]> <![CDATA[By: jennyzhu]]> barto,

Glad that enjoyed the Shanghainese lessons. I believe we do have Beijinghua planned. It is really great to see the interest for Chinese dialects and accents.

]]> barto,

Glad that enjoyed the Shanghainese lessons. I believe we do have Beijinghua planned. It is really great to see the interest for Chinese dialects and accents.

]]> <![CDATA[By: jgwilson]]> how about Taiwanese?

]]> how about Taiwanese?

]]> <![CDATA[By: euphonies]]> 哦，一节课根有机食物有关觉得特别有意思！（ 在上海有一个很好的服务叫www.helekang.com 可以上网点食物然后他们很快得送过来。）

]]> 哦，一节课根有机食物有关觉得特别有意思！（ 在上海有一个很好的服务叫www.helekang.com 可以上网点食物然后他们很快得送过来。）

]]> <![CDATA[By: doodlemonster]]> and perhaps Cantonese too? :)

]]> and perhaps Cantonese too? :)

]]> <![CDATA[By: robert2335644]]> Yes, I would love some beginner Taiwanese classes someday, if that would be possible!

]]> Yes, I would love some beginner Taiwanese classes someday, if that would be possible!

]]> <![CDATA[By: hamshank]]> Yeah, I have a BA in Music Technology and started in IT support followed by 3 years in software testing and am now working for a TV company in Taiwan.

I think the key is still being prepared to work up from the bottom and not assuming you deserve a great job from just having a degree. With a good education, you will find it easy to shine at the bottom and you will always have the required background to move up.

]]> Yeah, I have a BA in Music Technology and started in IT support followed by 3 years in software testing and am now working for a TV company in Taiwan.

I think the key is still being prepared to work up from the bottom and not assuming you deserve a great job from just having a degree. With a good education, you will find it easy to shine at the bottom and you will always have the required background to move up.

]]> <![CDATA[By: yunayi2009]]> Dear euphonies:

you have a mistake in this sentence,

一节课根有机食物有关觉得特别有意思！ you must use this word "跟".

]]> Dear euphonies:

you have a mistake in this sentence,

一节课根有机食物有关觉得特别有意思！ you must use this word "跟".

]]> <![CDATA[By: euphonies]]> You're right yunayi2009. Thanks! I wasn't careful enough with the pinyin auto-complete.

]]> You're right yunayi2009. Thanks! I wasn't careful enough with the pinyin auto-complete.

]]> <![CDATA[By: barto]]> Taiwanese is cool, but it'd need it's own pod (I think)

I live here (in Taipei), and it's like...what Taiwanese do you mean? Fujian, Taizhong, Gaoxiong style? It's all a little different, and the tone sandhi...there are eight tones and they all change in relation to each other constantly, it's like a cycle, it's much, much more difficult than Cantonese. The worst part is, even the best native speakers have no idea how to write it down or how to explain the tone changes, there's some professional teachers working in the government on it but their efforts have yet to bear fruit. I would be really impressed if Chinesepod could pull it off though!

On the plus side...Taiwanese can be a totally manly, gangster language :)

]]> Taiwanese is cool, but it'd need it's own pod (I think)

I live here (in Taipei), and it's like...what Taiwanese do you mean? Fujian, Taizhong, Gaoxiong style? It's all a little different, and the tone sandhi...there are eight tones and they all change in relation to each other constantly, it's like a cycle, it's much, much more difficult than Cantonese. The worst part is, even the best native speakers have no idea how to write it down or how to explain the tone changes, there's some professional teachers working in the government on it but their efforts have yet to bear fruit. I would be really impressed if Chinesepod could pull it off though!

On the plus side...Taiwanese can be a totally manly, gangster language :)

]]> <![CDATA[By: danchao]]> Thanks, mjvito! Will need that luck.

]]> Thanks, mjvito! Will need that luck.

]]> <![CDATA[By: mjvito]]> Dan, where are you going to school? I did my BM in clarinet at Oberlin. Still playing, but my day job is in sustainability consulting. Wish I had had the forethought to do the double degree!

]]> Dan, where are you going to school? I did my BM in clarinet at Oberlin. Still playing, but my day job is in sustainability consulting. Wish I had had the forethought to do the double degree!

]]> <![CDATA[By: xiao_liang]]> You know, Dan has one of those manly deep voices that I wish I had :-) *jealous*

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Not that I'm coming on to Dan.

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This post got weird reaaal quick. Note to self: drinking less in the evening is a good idea. Let's pretend this never happened. Ok. Good.

]]> You know, Dan has one of those manly deep voices that I wish I had :-) *jealous*

...

Not that I'm coming on to Dan.

...

This post got weird reaaal quick. Note to self: drinking less in the evening is a good idea. Let's pretend this never happened. Ok. Good.

]]> <![CDATA[By: danchao]]> Getting a BM in guitar from Cornerstone. I actually considered Oberlin, but I didn't want to study jazz or classical guitar. Haha, at least you didn't need a degree to do sustainability consulting. That actually sounds like a pretty well off job.

What kind of stuff do you play nowadays? Do you play in a symphony?

]]> Getting a BM in guitar from Cornerstone. I actually considered Oberlin, but I didn't want to study jazz or classical guitar. Haha, at least you didn't need a degree to do sustainability consulting. That actually sounds like a pretty well off job.

What kind of stuff do you play nowadays? Do you play in a symphony?

]]> <![CDATA[By: danchao]]> You should see the ladies swoon when they hear my voice.

Just kidding, they don't do that. I HAVE been offered to get paid to read people bedtime stories though.

]]> You should see the ladies swoon when they hear my voice.

Just kidding, they don't do that. I HAVE been offered to get paid to read people bedtime stories though.

]]> <![CDATA[By: xiao_liang]]> Time for a new chinesepod lesson set. "Chinese bedtime stories with Dan" !

]]> Time for a new chinesepod lesson set. "Chinese bedtime stories with Dan" !

]]> <![CDATA[By: wangaimei]]> I would love love love some beginner Taiwanese lessons. I get that it's ridiculously difficult, but just to get a taste of it would be awesome. I could seriously impress some people with a little bit of Taiwanese in a way that tons of Mandarin just won't do. lol

]]> I would love love love some beginner Taiwanese lessons. I get that it's ridiculously difficult, but just to get a taste of it would be awesome. I could seriously impress some people with a little bit of Taiwanese in a way that tons of Mandarin just won't do. lol

]]> <![CDATA[By: wangaimei]]> I could get into that :)

]]> I could get into that :)

]]> <![CDATA[By: mjvito]]> Used to sub in orchestras, back before I went to business school. I did nonprofit management for a youth orchestra, so it was pretty easy to freelance on the side. These days, the "real" job has crowded out all but a few one-off gigs. That, and CPod gets a dedicated 2 hour slot each day, but I'm not holding that against you :)

]]> Used to sub in orchestras, back before I went to business school. I did nonprofit management for a youth orchestra, so it was pretty easy to freelance on the side. These days, the "real" job has crowded out all but a few one-off gigs. That, and CPod gets a dedicated 2 hour slot each day, but I'm not holding that against you :)

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