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brigrainger
Posted on: The One-Child Policy
January 30, 2012 at 10:54 AMon another issue concerning this lesson ....the use by our American team of the term bathroom and restroom. Never has a toilet looked less like either !
Posted on: The One-Child Policy
January 30, 2012 at 10:44 AMIt might have been an imperfect legislation but if we consider the uncontrolled expansion of the Indian population over the same period .......India has families unable to feed their children and many abandoned children too.
Posted on: Water
December 10, 2011 at 5:25 PMor 'He tooK to it like a fish to water '!
Posted on: Sportswear Brands
September 8, 2011 at 3:30 PMhmm. when I was a kid we couldn't afford expensive running shoes ... but year later I still run but carry injuries for having pounded the streets in running shoes with poor stability and little support ...Chinese runners will suffer pronation and supination too! I can't attempt to translate those two words !
Posted on: 美国国债
July 19, 2011 at 1:03 PMPosted on: 美国国债
July 19, 2011 at 12:58 PMIf one Eurozone country defaults the fear is it may create a 'domino effect'
Could the team help me with two of those words in chinese please ...' Eurozone' and 'domino effect' .
many thanks .
Posted on: We're lost
July 18, 2011 at 11:21 AMand I believe if you want to say ... I have lost someone... ( i learned this from my Chinesepod teacher Gloria today) .. you have to turn the thing around and say they disappeared ... eg. 他已经失踪了一个月了
Posted on: Unfairness, Misblaming, and Feeling Wronged
June 4, 2011 at 4:34 PMCould the examples given in Qingwen lessons be added in the same way as the dialogues are in standard lessons, please?
Posted on: Two tones, two meanings for 转
May 31, 2011 at 9:12 PMI thought I was on Chinesepod.. it turns out to be a Plot vlomspod!
Posted on: Preparing for the Ironman Race
May 3, 2012 at 2:28 PMI must say that the guys who prepared this lesson did not observe the basic rule that all Tri athletes understand.... the quality of the performance always reflects the quality of the preparation ... it is true of all podcast lessons .
This leads me to raise a more general question about preparation of lesson topics . How much market research does Chinesse pod do in this regard amongst it's poddies? Does Chinese pod ask it's poddies what topics it would like at the centre of the language itinerary?
The impression I get from my location in Brussels is that you sanitise your topics so much that anything that is the slightest bit controversial or could be interpreted as such by the authorities is taboo.
Arab Spring.... Presidential elections in France and US .... Euro crisis ..Chinese influence in Africa... Chinese living abroad and their social interactions.
I only mention this in the hope it may be construed positively and lead to some market research among your clients as to what subjects would draw more interest and of course more ,or continued ,subscription to Chinese pod.
a loyal fan
Brian Grainger Intermediate to Upper Inrmediate based in Brussels.