Didn't anybody notice that "FavoriteLesson"-Question in the Blog?
henning
August 23, 2007, 08:59 PM posted in General Discussionhttp://blog.praxislanguage.com/2007/08/20/your-favorite-chinesepod-lessons/
If only 3 users answer, than no wonder that the conclusion will be "a third of our listeners prefer SciFi and Space lessons. We need to stack up more of those." (I would certainly be delighted to see that). That's how democracy works.
:)
But actually I would have loved to see some other answers & opinions to John's post.
bazza
August 23, 2007, 09:34 PMI just can't decide. hehe
aeflow
August 24, 2007, 02:08 PMMy listening comprehension is considerably worse than my reading, so I use ChinesePod mostly for listening comprehension. I listen mostly to the intermediate level lessons, because I prefer to listen to material that I can understand nearly all of (with some effort of concentration) without reading transcripts ahead of time. I don't believe in the philosophy of listening to audio where you can't understand most of the sentences and can only pick out some individual words, that's just too frustrating. With this background, nearly all of the intermediate lessons are of uniformly high quality, and none really stand out as weaker than the rest (except for the very early 2005 lessons which were at the wrong level by today's standards, closer to elementary or upper-elementary). The mix of topics is well chosen. So I'd say, just keep doing what you're doing.
wei1xiao4
August 24, 2007, 03:16 PMI have lots of favorites. Some I like because of the vocabulary, some because of the sentence structures, some because I actually find myself in these situations. Here's a list of some of them: Studying Chinese (great vocab) This is outrageous (expressing anger) Going to the gym (great vocab) Complaining to the waiter Make-up ( I like to hear Ken's discomfort in discussing the topic) It's nothing (Ken's acting) The Olympic Mascots (great vocab) Bank Transactions (useful vocab-complicated system) Tailor Made clothing (use this all the time) A trip to the dry cleaners (very useful vocab and measure words) Standing in Line (great banter about cutting in line, eternal problem in China) Child/Parent Fight (great vocab-angst words) Parking lot rage (really funny name calling) Mosquito Bite (need that word in Hong Kong) There's a few that I really enjoy. Anybody else have some they like? I'd love to check out specific dialogs, intermediate or lower would be best for me.
mark
August 25, 2007, 05:52 AMI didn't see the post. My timezone is skewed relative to the work week in Shanghai. (PDT) I think my favorate lessons are the ones that seem like the Chinesepod team has gotten bored and decided to try something off-the-wall. Abducted by space aliens, The drug dealer, buying a gun, 农学 come to mind. Actually, i enjoy all the lessons. I don't bother with most of the 媒体, I've missed some of the Advanced, and I found out about CPod about six months into its existance and never caught up with all of the newbies and eles. So, I'm most qualified to comment on the 中级 and 中高级。 My, not necessarily atainable, goal is to be able to have any conversation I could have in English in Chinese. So, any topic that I could talk about in English is cool with me.
excuter
August 23, 2007, 09:21 PMI didn´t notice the post, but I´d like to have more buying related lessons like buying a DVD-recorder, buying sunglasses...:-)