Did you miss any Newbie vocab?

"for general usefulness in everyday living the Newbies are the best"

yeah, well one reason I decided it was high time I listened to all the newbie dialogues...see what I'd missed out on, try and shore up any holes, and for the first proper time, do some revision...try and get newbie level tucked away, haha.

"And I can't be 100% sure of the meaning of ANY of the above"

hehe, yeah, thanks for your honesty...makes me feel better.

"a couple I think I might guess"

...yeah me too...often I know the individual characters but haven't struck the combo

"If they are recent lessons"

..no, I've worked chronologically from the start and have just reached the point where I joined in Aug 2008....but for the year or two before that there was nothing new...it's starting to seem like the older lessons had more higher level type stuff thrown in the supplementary vocab. There almost seems to be a definite line where things changed around that time not only in the supp vocab but also the quality of the dialogues.

"I've got plenty. Holes that is"

hehe, yeah, me too :)

btw, regarding "a couple I think I might guess", be careful with the second one mate, hehe

'be careful with the second one mate,'

I still don't know Baba (see my post below). I guess I am not very imaginative. Expressed mother's milk?? Just a guess.

So as to avoid a spoiler for anyone who may want to try and work it out here, I'll just give you the lesson it was taken from:

http://chinesepod.com/lessons/how-do-you-take-your-coffee#vocabulary-tab

good grief . . . I thought I was an intermediate, but now I realize I should have started with Newbie! (and maybe should still be there) Curses, you've ruined my day. My Chinese is built on a foundation of Swiss cheese. I guess if I plug any of those into the search box for glossary I can find out what lesson they are in. I presume they are part of "supplementary vocabulary."

"good grief"

haha, I love that expression, but it always reminds me of Charlie Brown...perhaps that increases it's appeal

"Curses, you've ruined my day"

hehe, sorry mate. Actually, I think CPod became more and more structured in their approach with time, and developed a stronger sense of what vocab was appropriate for each level, but still, sometimes I've seen very simple newbie like vocab listed under vocab tab of Intermediate, even Uppers I think, and in the cases I've listed above I wouldn't be surprised to find them also as being vocab for higher level lessons. The newbie dialogues themselves are all very simple and have stuck to the level, but I think it was in the end actually exclusively in the supplementary vocab [yes you're right] where these words were found. I guess they may not have been necessarily thinking here's some high frequency newbie words for you, but rather, here's some topic related vocab for you in case you are wondering/ want to expand.

A great little test Baba. I recognised 1, 4, 6 and 8, but more because I think these have recently cycled around on my Anki SRS flashcards! I certainly don't remember them from Newbie lessons and, like you, I have worked through all of them chronologically from 2005 to today. Some of them admittedly seem quite tough for a newbie lesson.

"I guess if I plug any of those into the search box for glossary I can find out what lesson they are in"

...actually I just tried this with 奶精 above so as to give bodawei a link and came up with zippo [so had to go search for it amongst the many newbie beverage lessons]. If nothing else, at least that tends to suggest maybe it isn't such a high frequency word after all. In retrospect, I guess I should have provided a link to each lesson from the start [or should I....the lesson link gives a hint to the subject, and if it was to be a true test, you'd have no such clues]