ChinesePod Olympic Site

Is the site live? I went there and just displaying the title and feed link as well as the Praxis logo of the little person. If not live yet, when will be live? (Gawd.. look my Chingrish.. getting bad now.. haha..)

After one week, the mistakes with Bangladesh and Cyprus are still there. Is it deliberate to leave false informations on this educational pages ?

WOW WOW WOW and another WOW, there are all the lessons for the olympics, grouped aswell, then all the sports and the group words in each sport.

now I can 屈体　和　下法　yeah!!

ooh ohh I can 刺和犯規!!!

Nice site folks.  It looks like a lot of effort went into this.  I particularly like all the key words for each of the sports.  Now I need to find a way to work the "clean and jerk (挺举)" into a conversation!  The section on countries is useful irregardless of the Olympics.  Hopefully this sub-site is a sign of things to come with regards to other sub-genres of interest to the CPod community.

Are any of the CPod staff making official visits to  the Olympics?  Perhaps a Dear Amber live from Beijing.

This is the skeleton of something really impressive but it takes 3-8 seconds between clicking on a sound link and the sound actually playing, which makes it feel like there is something wrong with the site. The lava lamp effect in the banner is kind of annoying too. The keywords are displaying funny for me; anyone else?

Just one question from me about the old world division.

Why is Cyprus (塞浦路斯) still in the large group of the Eastern countries ? I don't really mind about Turkey but actually Cyprus is in Europe.

Btw, thanks for all the vocabulary. That will be useful.

The Cyprus comment made me hunt around a little... er, I believe the name of another country should be Bangladesh, not Bengal. (Half of what was once Bengal now being in India - where it's still called West Bengal.)

Those old-style-calligraphy symbols for the different sports are really cool. Very impressive design, far better than the Fuwa or whatever the mascots are called.

The Flash player set up is a little annoying. I'm so used to opening things up in new tabs now, but of course that won't work.

So "Natatorium" is the English name for a building containing a swimming pool? And all these years I thought it was just "Indoor Swimming Pool." I'd like to paste the characters in here, but I can't seem to paste them... just the pinyin, you2yong3guan3. I guess it's a sign of progress that if, two hours ago, someone had shown me the Chinese word I'd have understood it, but I'd have had no idea what the English word meant.

Very cool. Doesn't seem to work properly in Firefox though.

I am very impressed.  You all have been very busy.  Now all I need is a Chinese language feed during the olympics.

have to click on the chinesepod olympics bit and then wow!!!!!!!

Lost in Asia,

we definately are not placing any political meanings behind any country name errors if there are some. Ｉｌｌ　ｇｏ　ａｎｄ　ｈａｖｅ　ａ　ｌｏｏｋ　ａｔ　ｉｔ　ｔｏｄａｙ　ａｎｄ　ｓｅｅ　ｉｆ　ｉ　ｃａｎ　ｓｐｏｔ　ａｎｙ　ｍｏｒｅ．

ｆｏｒ　ｔｈｏｓｅ　ｗｉｔｈ　ｐｒｏｂｌｅｍｓ，　ｌｅｔ　ｍｅ　ｋｎｏｗ　ｓｐｅｃｉｆｉｃａｌｌｙ　ｗｈａｔ　ｙｏｕ　ａｒｅ　ｅｘｐｅｒｉａｎｃｉｎｇ　（ｏｕｔｓｉｄｅ　ｏｆ　ｓｌｏｗ　ｐｌａｙｅｒｓ）　ａｎｄ　ｉｌｌ　ｒｅｐｏｒｔ　ｉｔ　ｔｏ　ｔｈｅ　ｔｅｃｈ　ｄｕｄｅｓ．

i initially had some viewing problems with the site until i upgraded to the newest flash version. click on the following to get there.

Newest Flash Player

Wow. Cool ressource. You should definately put a link on the home page.

bazza,

What problems are you talking about? As far as I can tell, it works fine in Firefox for me (v. 2.0).

I'm using v2.0.0.14 and I've tried both the English and Chinese versions with the same results comparing to IE.

1. The page doesn't load the first time, I have to click the banner and refresh the page for the index to come up.

2. The lesson scrollbar is missing.

3. If I click on any country on the map it just show one and a half flags with no other information.

4. If I click on an event it shows the Chinese, pinyin and audio at the top, but only 3 keywords underneath in English only with no chinese, pinyin or audio.

5. The links on the Beijing map seems to work ok but the popup boxes are blank.

I'll give it a try on my computer at work and see if I get the same results.

It works ok at work. So I guess there's something wrong with my browser at home.

I'm still having the same problems, even after upgrading to Firefox 3.

I'm on a Mac running Firefox 2.0.0.1.4  and have never had a problem viewing this site.  Looks great!

For the countries list I would add a thin line between the columns.  I pressed what I thought was the play symbol for a country, and it played the one in the other column.  I was first very surprised, then I realized I had picked the wrong one.