User Comments - ancalagon

Posted on: Chinglish in Reverse and University Culture

Eunica, 多谢！ Much obliged.

Posted on: Chinglish in Reverse and University Culture

Would someone mind listing the 'Zhonglish' expressions used here in Chinese characters and pinyin?

谢谢！

Posted on: A Month in Recovery and Being Civilized

Amber, you mention people being told to say excuse me after burping, etc. How does one say 'excuse me' in Chinese?

Posted on: Olympics and more...

If anything is expendable, it is the Media 'lessons.' What, exactly, is the point of those? Chinesepod members at that level can and should go try their hand at internet clips from actual Chinese TV, internet news stories right out of China. Media lessons are wholly unnecessary. I think there is something nice and balanced about the notion of every week looking like :

M-Newbie

T-Elementary

W-Intermediate

Th-Upper Intermediate

F-Advanced

I realize this seems fair to you all, but that presupposes two things: the first being that the Chinesepod community is made up of equal numbers at each level; and two, that ChinesePod, which after all is a business, can accrue just as many members with a balanced schedule as it can with a schedule more tilted one way or the other (be that newbie or advanced).

Posted on: Olympics and more...

Ballies, with all due respect, you're way off in your suggestions. That is not to say you're not entitled to suggest whatever you'd like; by all means. But it is at best selfish and at worst stupid/silly for you to suggest one Newbie -or- Media lesson per week. The Newbie lessons are this site's bread and butter; I would wager a substantial majority of NEW customers are first-time learners or past-novices looking to brush up. For them, the Newbie lessons are indispensible. It is to me indisputable that Newbie/Elementary lessons need to take prominence. Here would be my preferred four week breakdown:

第一星期：

星期一: Newbie

星期二: Elementary

星期三: Intermediate

星期四： Upper-Intermediate

星期五： Advanced

第二星期：

星期一: Newbie

星期二: Newbie

星期三： Elementary

星期四： Intermediate

星期五： Upper-Intermediate

第三星期：

星期一： Newbie

星期二： Elementary

星期三: Elementary

星期四: Intermediate

星期五: Media

第四星期:

星期一: Newbie

星期二: Newbie

星期三: Intermediate

星期四： Upper-Intermediate

星期五： Advanced

I think this is a pretty fair four week schedule, all things considered. To be honest, how difficult it was to draw this up is a testament to how painful cutting two lessons a week really is. I'll just have to second what was said earlier: this was a very abrupt announcement, and those of us who've paid well in advance for service (a year, in my case) can't help but feel a bit wronged having just short of a third of the content we paid for cut. I'm not saying I regret my purchase; just that it's very shady for things to have been gone about in the manner they were gone about. Sorry if I sound preachy, but hopefully you guys will learn from this and be that much better a company in the future.

对不起；谢谢!

Posted on: Aussie Rules

Great lesson, 很好课。Would anyone be so kind as to list some other common verbs/phrases that can be followed by 死 to add emphasis?

多谢！

Posted on: Olympics and more...

So yeah, would it be possible for one of the staff to delineate for us exactly what the new schedule will look like. Is it:

M-F: Mandarin Lesson

Sat: Cantonese Show; Dear Amber

Sun: Qing Wen

?

Posted on: Weekend Plans

What's the difference between 做 and 干?

多谢！

Posted on: Wait!

Rather than 等一等，could you say 等一下 and achieve the same effect?

Posted on: Airplane Arrival

Sorry, sort of a newbie/elementary question in the Intermediate section, but what is Jenny using -- it sounds like mei cuo -- to express 'correct' or 'yes!'. Is whatever it is synonymous with 对?