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matty987
 July 09, 2007 at 09:08 PM posted in General Discussion
Hi, I am fairly new to this, how do i get people to respond to my posts around the site?
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eileen
 July 16, 2007 at 02:31 AM

Hi ghayle1010,

Welcome to the ChinesePod community! :-)

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italiana
 July 15, 2007 at 11:50 PM

"central bleating"?? Anyone? Bazza?

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ghayle1010
 July 12, 2007 at 12:49 PM

hello everyone, am new in learning chinese, hopefully i can learn mandarin in no time.. hope you can help me on these guys... thanks in advance..

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italiana
 July 12, 2007 at 11:26 AM

Oh I still dont get it...??? Yes I got your joke, AZERDocMom.

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azerdocmom
 July 12, 2007 at 03:53 AM

hi italiana

hint: it rhymes with "bleating" and has to do with keeping warm... did you get my joke (actually my kids' joke)?

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italiana
 July 11, 2007 at 10:29 PM

"Central bleating"? I don't get it. . .

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bazza
 July 10, 2007 at 07:35 PM

I saw that joke on a Woolworths bag a bit back. ;)

I think another one was, "how do sheep keep warm?", "central bleating".

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azerdocmom
 July 10, 2007 at 06:29 PM

ummm...actually, I think it's "why is 6 afraid of 7? because 7 8 9"...hehe...get it?

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azerdocmom
 July 10, 2007 at 03:11 PM

Welcome, matty 987! You will find plenty of help on your journey here at CPod!

BTW your name reminds me of a (lame) grade school joke: why is 8 afraid of 7? because 7 8 9!

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leviathan
 July 10, 2007 at 06:51 AM

Hi matty, welcome

I'm always here to help

aw thanks italiana :-)

Chinesepod are the best,

It's hard, but they make it easier!

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italiana
 July 10, 2007 at 03:04 AM

lol, thanks Eileen

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eileen
 July 10, 2007 at 02:25 AM

Newbie,

Hi there! Welcome to the site... We have the academic team going through the lesson comments everyday and we have several CPod staff (aka Ken, JohnB and I) going through the conversation section, blogs and forums everyday so hopefully we will be able to help you out!

As italiana also said, there are tons of Cpodders as well on site everyday and all of them are also willing to help you out!

italiana, your titles and questions are not lame at all! :-)

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italiana
 July 10, 2007 at 12:39 AM

Some of my titles are lame but I guess people like lame because I always get help! (ie: *Stamp It!*) lol

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johnb
 July 10, 2007 at 12:37 AM

Italiana's right. There's lots of awesome people in the community. One tip, though -- make your conversation section post's titles descriptive! There are lots of posts here every day, and mostly people scan the titles for something they're interested in, so the most interesting your title, the most likely it is that people will look at the post.

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italiana
 July 10, 2007 at 12:32 AM

I hope it is okay to mention names.

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italiana
 July 10, 2007 at 12:20 AM

If you have any questions just ask 'em on the conversations tab. There are a lot of intelligent Poddies out there! Franch, leviathan, xiahu, and henning were very helpful to me. Also you can email ChinesePod too. chinesepod@gmail.com

~italiana