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captbrian
Posted on: Chinese Rock Music
September 08, 2012, 02:13 AM许巍!
Posted on: The Final Show
January 12, 2009, 06:25 PMUg, what will life be like without that adorable voice?
Re-runs
Posted on: Sightseeing at Tiananmen
June 11, 2008, 10:40 PMwow, a perfect example today of the only thing really wrong with Chinesepod.com... the very unkempt comments sections. very little to do with the lesson (I am guilty of that too today, but jeez, can't take it anymore) and always 25 posts by the same people. And I am surprised at how many people are so addicted to posting comments that in each and every level, they must comment. Everyone rushes to be first, and the comments basically stop after just a day or two. What a great resource this could be to discuss the lessons and pickup related or extended grammar (like once upon a time, thank you Connie for when we used to get some additional vocab).
Since most of it is off topic anyway I will choose today to put in my full 2 mao worth. Not everyone uses Perakun (or even knows what it is), it is kind of weird that Cpod community is such a Firefox one. Kinda sad, because while I know you all think it is cool, the majority of the world does NOT use it (Cpod web guys take note?). It was funny that for so long people had problems with the html instead of an mp3 right-click save-as issue, only because the developers are using Firefox and don't look at things through IE glasses (am I wrong?)
With that, my strong recommendation for the rest of you to use as a translating source is www.chinese-tools.com, (ah, almajors beat me to it, I second that!) there you will find a converter for every purpose (and the best I have seen to date). Everything including tone numbers to tone marks, even unicode for webbies.
Sorry again for continuing off-topic. tian an men is great by the way!
Posted on: Internet Slang (Part Two)
September 15, 2012, 02:16 AMwow thanks for that link mjvito, hadn't been to that website before... love their word-of-the-week, etc. so much stuff on the interwebs, hard to keep up with it all.