蓝天！ 了不起。。。听懂电视剧 - 你就到了梦境里。 我还不会呢！ 了解的只是海绵宝宝， 因此是在德国已经看了好几次。 哎， 我太羡慕你。 请问, 你还在中文播客学到新的东西?

高级我还是觉得难，还有很多词汇我不认识。不过一般的对话还行。我还需要听中文博客因为有时候他们介绍一个我不认识的词,不管是高级还是newbie。如果我不听的话，肯定我的水平就不变。Hmm...hard to describe, not that my Chinese won't improve, it does daily, but it still needs some "new input" to help words "appear" when I listen and talk to people in real life.

That's great Lantian! Your Chinese is really good. I read better than I speak or listen.It's a challenge for me when I am listening to Mandarin. I am waiting for the fruition of a future wearable technology that will display Chinese text in front of the Mandarin-speaking person with whom I am talking so that I'll understand what he or she is saying to me.

Lantian, 看来你的中文进步得很快啊。恭喜你！ 我想，在你收获喜悦的同时也证明了功夫不负有心人。 大家一起加油吧！

蓝天， 我不太认识你们也不认识 “人鱼小姐”，但是我也恭喜你。太帮了！如果你写英文一定会 inspire 新的学生。 Especially the ones that don't know the word for "inspire". :(

Hi tvan and others, What I originally posted (watch out there ARE errors), was that I had just finished watching a tv program called "人鱼小姐." It's a Korean t.v. drama series, very sappy, and lots of romantic twists and turns. It plays here on Chinese t.v., dubbed and with Chinese sub-titles. A year ago or so, I first watched (and was addicted) to watching it. At the time, I really was mostly guessing what the actors and actresses were saying, and when I saw/heard a particular hanzi/word that came up often enough, I would look it up in my electronic dictionary. (The sub-titles allowed me to do that). At that time, I came here to Chinesepod, and wrote, commented about it. Connie was one of those kind people that laboured thru my scattered hanzi and Chinese and helped me out with various questions I had. Some good comments on the romantic twists and turns too! Well, the other night, just before this post, I was channel surfing and came across a re-broadcast of the show. I started watching, noting how dated their clothing looked, then all of a sudden I realized I wasn't really paying that much attention to the sub-titles, and I basically understood most of what they were saying. This made me pretty happy. (Happier than any HSK test could ever do) So I scurried over to my computer, and said so, in Chinese. :) 爬山一步一步走就快到了。