Blathering opportunities in the smoke?
mattwhyndham
September 07, 2008, 11:38 AM posted in General Discussionnot sure how this works. Cpod interface is a bit wonky sometimes.
Anyone here from London or work there?
jazz
September 23, 2008, 01:07 PMI work at Imperial College in London (South Kensington), and there are Mandarin evening classes available once a week which are open to the public. I can't vouch for them personally, but registration for the year is happening soon if anyone's interested:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/humanities/eveningclasses/coursesavailable
mikeinewshot
September 08, 2008, 07:12 PMI live near Farnham, Surrey, an hour or more from London
Yes surely there are more of us in the UK
mattwhyndham
September 08, 2008, 09:26 PMJust for more info, Central London or South West Surrey are all in reasonable reach, in case anyone fancies a natter. In Chinese even!
pinkjeans
September 09, 2008, 02:26 PMI'm in Woking, Surrey...25 mins by train to London Waterloo.
billglover
September 12, 2008, 12:42 PMI'm living in North West London and working down in Crawley (Three Bridges).
valleygirl
September 19, 2008, 05:09 PMHi, I live in Beaconsfield and work in NW London. There's a new Chinese course starting in Brunel Uni in 2 weeks but it's full :( Everyone wants to learn Chinese! Anyone know of another course in West London. I love CPOD but need to chat to a real person and they are thin on the ground by me... I think we should all meet up for a drink it'll be fun.
sebire
September 19, 2008, 06:27 PMWow, Greater London/Home Counties 6 - Rest of the Country, nil. Except for Bazza who lives up north somewhere.
Valleygirl, have you tried a tutor? There are loads of Chinese people in Harrow. I even went to Chinese school in Pinner as a kid. There are some really good dim sum restaurants round there (where Chinese people go!)
valleygirl
September 19, 2008, 09:43 PMHi sebire, yeah I've had a look around. I had a great tutor up in Leamington and I think I was a bit spoilt with her. They seem to be quite expensive and its hard to judge how much experience they have down here. I've got a great chinese restaurant by me too and I've had a go there, but they have a job to do and I feel a bit uncomfortable keeping them talking. I guess I'd just like to meet a girl of my age to chat over lunch or something - I'm trying the local uni and had a few emails so fingers crossed. Love dim sum too :)
sebire
September 19, 2008, 09:51 PMDid you go to Warwick or something? Yeah, I have just resigned myself to not having anyone to speak to at the moment, which is a problem because my speaking is resoundingly awful. Are tutors that expensive? The problem I have with Chinese schools/courses is that they only run during term-time, and the adult course round here is between 3-5 on a Saturday afternoon, which is just the best part of Saturday gone!
sebire
September 08, 2008, 02:08 PMI live near London (outside of the M25!)
Are there really only 20 poddies from the UK? Maybe we should round some more up.
jonsnow
September 21, 2008, 06:59 PMFrom berkhamsted :D
Which is like juusst outside london. Only a half hour train ride to Euston.
I'm not a fan of London though. I think I prefer the cities like Oxford, Cambridge and Norwich.
If anyone wants to meet up and attempt to talk to each other that'd be cool =]
jonsnow
September 21, 2008, 07:06 PMOh yes and the home counties are probs my fave place. It's beautiful out here in Herts :)
clean air, friendly people and rolling hills
sebire
September 21, 2008, 08:17 PMJonsnow, did you never make it to Hemel?! "Beautiful" is not the word! (I'm from Hemel).
sebire
September 21, 2008, 08:20 PM(Or should I say, due to today's QW, Jonsnow, 你从来没去过 Hemel?)
jonsnow
September 21, 2008, 09:55 PM
去 。 我去了 Hemel Hempstead
我的忆是坏
Apologies my anwser is not more lucrative...my chinese is close to appalling :P and no doubt that second sentence is wrong so feel free to correct ^_^
And yes...Hemel isn't exactly the town you would show case for the counties haha
sebire
September 21, 2008, 10:18 PMYour memory is broken? 你的记忆不好？
I think Hemel would have been a much better place if it had been blown up and rebuilt, however it is apparently going to be the place to be in 2013, claims The Times. I know, I was shocked too.
jonsnow
September 21, 2008, 11:05 PMaiyo
Unfortunately my chinese is terrible :(
Really? Oh dear =/
I really like St albans though... which is east of hemel. Hey you seem to actually have a little understanding of chines. Can you check out my post and help me out?
http://chinesepod.com/community/conversations/post/3360
sebire
September 21, 2008, 11:33 PMBerko is nice, as is St Albans. At least you have nice bars and restaurants (and the Rex - any cinema that serves up cheese and olives is good in my book). You should go up to Durham, I imagine you'd like it there, it's very pretty. It would be infinitely superior if it was down south though!
MuampHeadphones
September 21, 2008, 09:30 AMI am from North Essex, about an hour away from Liverpool Street station, LONDON.
This takes the count to 7 people....
mattwhyndham
September 07, 2008, 11:40 AMseems I can't edit that, unlike the Comments in lessons. Grrr! But I _can_ edit this comment to the post, say what?