User Comments - bryan
bryan
Posted on: The Clogged Toilet
May 3, 2007 at 2:50 PMIs it just me who thinks some of these expansion exercises are pretty lame? The exercises on the Flags and National Anthems lesson were much better. The exercises don't really do anything but list a just heard audio expansion sentence and then one other option with one word moved to a different spot which is quite obviously wrong. It is great to have the audio expansion, but exercises 2 and 3 don't seem to offer much in the way of learning.
Posted on: Flags and National Anthems
May 3, 2007 at 1:43 PMI would just like to state that the premium exercises for this lesson were much better than some of the other lessons I've done recently (Help with Housework, Easter and Chocolate Bunnies, China's Most Famous Tourist Destinations) which were mere regurgitations of expansion audio sentences with two options of either the exact sentence heard, or that same sentence with one word relocated. These exercises actually made use of similar principles and provokes some thought about how they would work in similar, but new sentences. I hope that the expansion exercises will continue to be more demanding on not mere cutting and pasting of one word from the expansion audio examples. Thanks for all of the great work you guys!
Posted on: China's Most Famous Tourist Destinations
May 1, 2007 at 12:08 PMI'm wondering if 最好吃的东西是什么？ is an acceptable sentence construct. Would 什么东西最好吃? be a better or more correct construction or does it perhaps convey a slightly different meaning? Thanks for any help you can provide. Also, if one has a premium membership and has a question on an expansion exercise, is there a special place to post rather than here? Thanks and please keep up the great work, CPod.
Posted on: China's Most Famous Tourist Destinations
May 8, 2007 at 12:27 PMAmber, Thanks for the response. I really appreciate your help. So just to clarify, it seems like in the first of your examples, the speaker would be trying to determine what exactly are the best things that the restaurant has to offer, whereas in the second example the speaker is merely asking "What tastes the best here?". Am I understanding this right? What are the tastiest things vs. Which things are tastiest?