User Comments - Gwilym-ChinesePod

Posted on: Paying the Bill

Very interesting indeed. I've always been unsure how to write tone sandhi since I mostly only learn with Characters these days. It seems the jury is out, but in general, "Tone change and tone sandhi are not represented in Pinyin."1

Others have found this info: Dictionary doesn't show tone changes, textbooks do, elementary school textbooks don't.2

@eals, what is your opinion on 不.

1.http://talkbank.org/pinyin/Tone_marks.php

2.http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/11052-tone-shift-rules/

Posted on: Paying the Bill

Fixed, although those are just tone change rules that you would learn naturally during your studies and is only important in spoken Chinese.

Posted on: Meditation

You can use the ChinesePod app, or alternatively, use your self study RSS feed with the Apple Podcast app, then click on the cloud icon on there to save to the device.

You can follow these instructions I wrote to help you:

https://cpod.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203478754-Adding-Your-ChinesePod-RSS-feed-to-iTunes

Posted on: Tumble Dry or Air Dry

The tone mistakes in the exercise tab should now be fixed. Thanks for spotting them.

Posted on: Tumble Dry or Air Dry

Sorry about that. It it so low that you cannot hear clearly at a normal audio level? If so, I will ask to get it re-recorded :)

Posted on: Meditation

Could you clarify what you would like a little more so we can help you out.

Posted on: Can you hear that?

I'm sorry to hear that. What is your current download speed (go to speedtest.net)? Have you tried with/without a VPN and still have the same issues. It might be a temporary problem with the internet in China since I don't personally have issues with download speed in the UK or Taiwan. Regarding the repeating of the episode at 38secs, this seems to be linked to the above problem, but you could try playing with the old player by clicking the link under the web player which says 'Switch back to the old player'.

Posted on: Official Receipt at a Work Lunch

I believe this is a loanword;

http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%96%E6%9D%A5%E8%AF%AD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loanword#In_English

Posted on: Life! 生活 (shēnghuó)，生命 (shēngmìng)，人生 (rénshēng)

In case you missed it, here is the video for this lesson for all you visual learners.

YouTube / Wistia (Users in China). Watch in 1080p for best results. 

Posted on: Lili and Zhang Liang 2: Growing Affections

Correct, back in 2006, all of the Cpod episodes went out on iTunes and the premium content could be found on the website for users that wanted to study it more in depth. Nowadays, all of the content is published directly on the website, but when I came on board, I re-added a selection of Classic episodes back onto iTunes as well as publishing content on YouTube.