User Comments - Jerry@ChinesePod

Posted on: Chinese Idioms - Lower than a pig or dog

Ha, that's a funny question! But really it just describes people.

Posted on: 代理孕母 Surrogacy

你说的对，平时这是ChinesePod的目标。这里描述Advanced的课程：

Advanced lessons are the black-belt of ChinesePod: you can already speak circles around your friends, but are looking for “complete” fluency Chinese.

Specialized, nuanced, and formal vocabulary.Entirely in Chinese.Recommended: 120 lessons

Posted on: 66 Enjoyable Characters with Joy #1

Actually, the only true "Traditional" character taught in this lesson is the last one: 見 (which is 见 in Simplified). Everything else is the same, regardless of which you're studying.

Posted on: "Teacher, I've Got Problems"

It is true that "一" in this context is pronounced as a 2nd tone, but it can be written either way. My preference would also for it to be written as a second tone. In fact, I was in Chinese class for a year before I found out about the change in tone!

Posted on: Making Apologies

I agree! I'll report it as a mistake.

Posted on: The Key to Closing a Deal

Even though this is far below my level, I still benefited from it as well - it's quite a useful phrase that I hadn't encountered before.

Posted on: 太过分了（太...了）

This is most definitely one of the hardest pre-intermediate lessons. The goal of an average pre-intermediate student would be to review the 太.... 了 structure. I would not expect the discussion in Chinese to be meaningful at this stage.

Posted on: 66 Enjoyable Characters with Joy #4

Joy's name suits her well!

Posted on: Doing Things in Places

Hi!

This is part of the "All the Way to Intermediate" series, which instead of being an ordinary dialogue-centered lesson, is more of a summary of the grammar points you need to know from the Newbie and Elementary levels. You won't find many of those usual features on these lessons.

Posted on: 66 Enjoyable Characters with Joy #2

We're glad you were able to benefit! Joy has a number of other lessons like this on the site.