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DocRaccoon

Posted on: Must-Have Modals
May 14, 2010 at 4:51 AM

definitely means the bird - flightless, nocturnal and endangered. in NZ the fruit is called Kiwifruit but it seems to be known around the world as Kiwi. and as zhong_bide pointed out, the irony is that it was known as Chinese gooseberry when it was brought to NZ for cultivation.

Posted on: Blown Fuse
May 14, 2010 at 2:51 AM

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the television dialogue at the start is from Ice Age 3. Maybe its a side effect of having a six year old daughter but I think I recognise that voice! It's Buck the one-eyed possum!

Posted on: Mother's Day
May 10, 2010 at 4:59 AM

i'm stunned. how did world war three break out here from what appeared to be an innocuous question?

Posted on: Daddy Changes a Diaper
April 20, 2010 at 4:29 AM

i don't think the iTunes feed has been fixed. my podcasts are still not updating.

Posted on: Daddy Changes a Diaper
April 19, 2010 at 8:41 AM

Ditto! me too! it had me wondering too! i hope you fix it soon.

Posted on: Defining a Dashboard and Upcoming Lessons!
April 19, 2010 at 8:22 AM

I don't want to be critically reactive to change and the dashboard seems to me a feature which one can choose to use or not to.

But what I wonder why my iTunes podcast feed is not updating with the new lessons. Is it something that I need to do? I have put a new RSS feed URL into my iTunes window but the latest lesson which is available is the nuts intermediate lesson.

Grateful for any advice on this. Is it only a temporary issue? have the most recent lessons (eg the diaper lesson) listed yet to be made available by podcast?

Thanks!

Posted on: April Fool's Day Car
April 1, 2010 at 1:13 AM

John,

Am I right in thinking this is your blog. I've just discovered it via Twitter. It's great! Love the blog about Chinese characters spliced into English.

http://www.sinosplice.com/life

Posted on: Computer Problems and Tech Support
January 18, 2010 at 3:08 AM

ha ha ha! I'm with this guy! go Google!

Posted on: Jason and Sarah
December 4, 2009 at 2:04 AM

re: flashcards - i get it it now! if i click on the cross or tick on the bottom, the flashcard moves forward without having to click on the arrow. my problem appears to be that i was doing both and the flashcard was advancing by two meaning i would then have to go back to see the previous one.

anyway i guess this is a convoluted way of saying that i've figured it out and it works fine!

 

Posted on: Picking things up: 拿、带、取
December 1, 2009 at 2:19 AM

Liliana gets my vote. how anglo-centric to say that her accent is inferior for teaching Chinese. what difference does it make? I like her verve and enthusiasm and I hope she's not discouraged by a tiny minority of negative comments. Keep going, Liliana.