Lesson Comments
我不喜欢周杰伦的音乐，但我尊重与佩服他的创造能力，听说他的歌都是他自己写的。 也请大家告诉我们你们最喜欢的唱中文歌的歌手是谁。 我很喜欢： 崔健，迪克牛仔，伍佰，王菲，莫文蔚，信乐团，还有很多”独立“乐队。 独立乐队 好像是 'Indie' or 'I... Read more
Qiu Xiaolong's new mystery novel The Mao Case has some striking insights into Mao's poetry--it seems Mao's poems were heavily coded. Today's sch... Read more
Thanks for your response Pete. I really loved the comments you made about the characters in the Qing Ming poem. Your glosses helped tremendously with... Read more
A ditch-type squat toilet is very dangerous. At an elementary school here in China, a girl accidentally fell into a ditch and was washed away into the... Read more
guikeli, When you're here long enough, you start to become much more tolerant of certain types of music you might not have originally liked. It hap... Read more
Hi John 我既不是教音乐的老师，也不是那些“不幸的孩子”。 美好的音乐会带给人们愉悦的心情。我也非常喜欢音乐。 但是如果强迫小孩子去按照父母的意愿去学这学那，我不认可这种方式。学习应该是建立在孩子的兴趣上的。如果他们不感兴趣，还不如叫他们出门去痛痛快快地玩。... Read more
I think they are quite smart, but not smart enough to discern the subtleties of hidden meanings in language. As an example, Lu Xun did this with... Read more
John, 你为什么听那首歌？难听死了。 Too gushy. I liked that one song Jenny put up on a lesson discussion board called 嘻唰唰 by 花儿乐队. Now that's a good Chinese... Read more
Just how dumb do you think the Chinese censors are dude? (Nice ideas though, you should try working them up into a book of your own!) Read more
@greenleaf, For the record, there are lots of "high maintanence" women all over the world. As there are lots of lazy men aswell. No one is pointing a... Read more