User Comments - biewangji

Posted on: Hanging Up the Phone

January 23, 2009, 05:20 PM

Can this 挂 be used for audio chats via MSN et al. as well? I'm wondering because technically, there is nothing to 挂...;) (Besides, we wouldn't use "hang up" in this context, either...)

Posted on: Guided Plan Gets Better! Plus: Poetry is Pending

January 19, 2009, 06:02 PM

---Poems - yeah! (Personally, I'd love to see a continuation of What's the story, but poetry is very 新鲜 topic, despite their age, and a nice change inmidst business/politics vocab items. [I'm not referring to the lessons on CP but the Chinese materials I have to work with.])

---Are there any plans for a show that would make it possible to introduce everyday speech (or even minor accents), as not everyone's accent/pronunciation is as impeccable as in the recordings on ChinesePod. At lest this approach would tie in nicely with possible ideas for a new cultural show... I'm more interested in the practical aspects of a language and its regional variations than in its aesthetic appeal, but that might just be me ;) I know, the scope of CP probably is to teach Putonghua, but now that we get a poetry show, this argument is not without flaw :P

---I have yet to encounter a native speaker who uses many chengyu, but I find that those non-chengyu-non-suhua-yet-cryptical-expressions (usually 4字 as well, or more) are used quite frequently, which is somewhat annoying because due to them, my listening seems so poor.

Posted on: Terrorized at the Airport

January 15, 2009, 02:09 AM

Another brilliant lesson. Looks like the 恐怖分子嫌疑人 wasn't particularly successful at "explaining away that bottle of white powder", though...

Whose handwriting is that in the lesson picture? ;)