Most interesting places you've listened to Jenny & Co. teach Chinese
rich
May 28, 2008, 11:08 PM posted in General DiscussionHey all...I'm back... been travelling and so haven't seen ChinesePod in a while... and somehow I knew when I came back today I would be facing the new website that we saw SpanishPod change to a few weeks back, and lo-and-behold, it had. I haven't even begun to get a feel for it, and sadly I wasn't around to see all the posts about the switch over nor have I begain to read them. I still remember the switch to CPod V3. We calling this one V4 now? Fill me in.
Well, I thought I would put a more interesting Title on this post than "I'm back" because who really cares anyhoo? Ha ha. But I was thinking after traveling to Paris, then London, then Around the coast and islands of Scotland how many places the lessons that Jenny & Co teach managed to get listened to by me. While I'm listening to them on the go usually, I have to note that there have been a few places where I never thought I would be studying Chinese but found myself purposing listening to ChinesePod because it was just something I had to do:
1. The Louve 卢浮宫: When wandering around the Louve in Paris I had to listen to Chinese at the same time (and oddly, just a tad too late right after my trip to Paris巴黎, two lessons came out with "Louve" 卢浮宫 in the vocabulary)
2. Eiffel Tower 艾菲尔铁塔： I actually had so much time on my hand and spend a whole day in the Eiffel Tower. But being surrounded by metal in such a high place, you can only study Chinese before watching to be back on the ground.
3。British Museam 大英博物馆 WHILE in the Chinese exibit: Can you say nerd?? Okay, must admit, that is just a little too much Chinese, but I don't care for being in silence in museams
4. Under and around Big Ben 大笨钟：I actually did take the "London" lesson with me on that trip, and played the couple's disagreement for a few Chinese friends in London when at Big Ben...they laughed.
5. On a boat cruise of Loch Ness 尼斯湖：Just did this last week... wondered if the Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, knows any Chinese...
6. Sitting on the Isle of Iona: An island off the Isle of Mull that is famous for an Irish Christian missionary (Columba) bringing Christianity to those parts in the 6th century, and the island still keeps to that spiritual message of good news. No Chinese people there though. :(
Well, those are all I can think of. Last year I even took ChinesePod to the Great Wall, but that is too close to Cpod's home to almost not count as an exotic place. You guys listen to ChinesePod in any unusual locations?
excuter
September 08, 2008, 02:03 PMyea, keep on trying! Once your into the daily return mode again you won´t be able to move away any more huahahahahaha...well who would want to anyway... ^_^
RJ
June 03, 2008, 09:25 AMRich,
well lets see. I guess I felt the strangest listening to my cpod ipod lessons in Mexico, surrounded by the Mexican culture and the spanish language. Made me think of our friend JP. Then there was Mattoon Illinois. The Mayberry of Illinois. Not a drop of Chinese for miles around. Not a drop of anything for miles around. Also strange. Interestingly enough, there is a Thai restaurant in Mattoon. Pretty good too. Go figure. I have never been to Paris. Its on my "bucket list."
RJ
kait
June 25, 2008, 08:45 PMi suppose it doesn't really count as listening, but my class got a taste of it while i was in the middle of teaching a swing dancing lesson a couple weeks ago! my partner was putting on a practice song from my laptop and hit the wrong track... too bad it wasn't movie madness, their theme music would've worked.
joannah
July 18, 2008, 04:25 AMOn my trip around the world i listened to the London lesson in london, the Paris lesson in France on the way to paris, the New York lesson in New York, the Hungry traveller: Hong Kong lesson in Hong Kong, and the Seoul lesson while flying over korea (i listened to lots of lessons inflight)
kencarroll
July 18, 2008, 10:40 AMI was listening to them in Dublin last week - at a nearby beach.
chillosk
July 18, 2008, 11:03 AMOn a train in Switzerland.
mandarinboy
August 27, 2008, 01:48 PMI am currently working In Japan and listen to Cpod most of the time while walking around in Tokyo. Most of the Japanese seems almost offended that I am not learning Japanese when in Japan.
Besides that I have one place that might be categorized as strange and that is while parachuting. I usually listen to Cpod on my Ipod touch when I pack my parachute and the plane is going up to the drop altitude. One time I where so in to the discussion (a dear Amber lesson) that I did not notice that we where up so I still had the lesson on when I had to jump. Even though I did not hear much during the freefall it where sort of uplifting to listen to it when hanging in the parachute.
joannah
June 03, 2008, 07:15 AMI'm going on holidays soon so i'll try and find some interesting places to do the lessons
sebire
August 27, 2008, 02:07 PMOn a bus coming down the Himalayan foothills in India. On a completely different note, the only McDonalds I saw in India was on that bus journey too, in the middle of nowhere, halfway down a mountain.
excuter
August 27, 2008, 06:30 PMwhile driving pretty fast in my car, looking at my sony ericson handy ... at least I didn´t crash into some thing/one... internet on the go is indeed fascinating and some times dangerous x_x
excuter
August 27, 2008, 06:32 PMBTW rich, nice having you back :-)
you´ve come around quite a bit it seems...
luhmann
August 29, 2008, 03:36 PMhahah... I only listen at boring places
jennyzhu
September 05, 2008, 03:18 AMMy life is painfully boring compared to all the wonderlust adventures of you guys.
lordstanley,
Are you on the crew of Man vs. Wild? Quite extreme conditions those are.
rich
September 08, 2008, 09:58 AMBut see Jenny, at least your voice gets around!! :)
rich
September 08, 2008, 10:01 AMand, excuter, as you can see, still haven't been around much, but trying to...really trying to.
lordstanley
August 27, 2008, 01:51 PMIce skating in South Africa a few weeks ago.
mandomikey
May 29, 2008, 02:12 AMHow about along nearly every road (paved and unpaved) in the Navajo Nation...