Lesson Comments
I'm kind of depressed now. I thought I was doing pretty well at intermediate, with just a few new words in most lessons, and seldom any new char... Read more
碧 is definitely a nice-sounding character. The main street of my city is 金碧路 - this is an abbreviation for 金马 碧鸡 (golden horse, green chicken).. a re... Read more
I am wondering about this too-- 走道 for aisle seems to be more common when you look up aisle in several of the on-line Chinese dictionaries-- so I'm wo... Read more
It's good that Cpod is introducing a "bridge level" lesson between intermediate and upper intermediate. I am curious about how Cpod decides whic... Read more
well, the latest is a bit more detail than I was aware of at the time that MIIT came out with its announcement. But I guess the net result is still t... Read more
The problem is that there are multiple Chinese phrases that can translate as "not bad" in English, so if you get multiple "not bad" on the right side,... Read more
It's a stock phrase for all beginners, and everyone understands it, but the Chinese rarely use it themselves with each other. You can use it, but c... Read more
Speaking of skype, what is the status of this these days in China? legal / not legal? Read more
For the record I recently flew China Southern to Australia via Guangzhou. On both legs of my trip the Chinese characters written on my gluten free mea... Read more