User Comments - benson
benson
Posted on: Going to the Gym
September 22, 2007, 06:00 AMHey, I think it would be great if you guys could do an Upper Intermediate lesson on Yoga and Pilates - after all they are very popular at the moment. The reason - as someone with fairly advanced 听力, I go to Yoga class and I still can't understand all those commands that the teacher is giving. There are a lot of very specific movement verbs, and a lot of different parts of the body and muscle groups that I don't know. I imagine there are quite a few 老外 living in China who are in the same boat! Thanks, Benson
Posted on: Taking the HSK
July 05, 2008, 02:07 PMAlexco,
I'd also like to know more about this "适合欧美学生的HSK”，because I think the current HSK system is very unfair (making people hand-write characters is already a thing of the past, and then constraining your HSK score by the level of your handwriting (instead of averaging all the parts of the test, which would seem to me to be the sensible thing to do, and would mean that someone with excellent listening can make up for weak writing) is even more unfair), and really 让我头疼。
So, C-Pod community, who dares to answer my question, and liberate millions of Western Chinese learners from spending hundreds, possibly thousands of hours writing out characters? Anyone disagree that writing characters by hand is no longer necessary?
半文盲的Benson