User Comments - ccclim

Posted on: Pinyin Terms

I find today’s lesson of great interest, and I think many of your subscribers, including me, would not have learnt Pinyin (properly) before.  As I result, like me, they may well find writing Chinese on computers (using Pinyin) usually a hit and miss affair, often requiring the looking up of a dictionary and/or relying on the very useful google pinyin with its powerful predictive features.

Therefore, I would like to request that ChinesPod devote some future lessons teaching subscribers how to say and use 声母 and 韵母, etc (instead of just talking about them).

Thank you.

ccclim

Posted on: 早教

Thank you very much for the information, and the website looks very interesting.

Posted on: 早教

I am always struggling with Pinyin whenever trying to "write" in Chinese on my PC, and as a result I must have a dictionary by my side when so doing. Therefore, I most definitely could benefit from such a book.. What is the title and publisher of the book please? I visit China almost every year, and intend to buy a copy or two of the book when I am there this autumn. Thank you in anticipation.

Posted on: I'm gonna be Late

Of course, in their private lives people are at liberty to use any expressions they wish. But I don't think that it's appropriate for a Chinesepod tutor to use such a term during a public lesson. I would be amazed if I ever heard a BBC reporter or a newsreader ever used it in their broadcast.

Posted on: I'm gonna be Late

Still, there is no reason to use impolite terms during a Chinesepod lesson. It would be a different matter, of course, if the purpose was to teach "impolite" terms in Chinese.

I have been a subscriber since April 2007, maybe it's time I let the existing subscription lapse when it expires next year.

Posted on: I'm gonna be Late

I hope she won't use it again, at least not in public such as during a Chinesepod lesson. Perhaps, she does not know that "pissed" is not a polite word.

Posted on: Swearing at a Driver

I was surprised that Dilu should have said "get pissed".

Posted on: So (adjective) that...

I could not get the text version of the script.  Please look into it.  Thanks.

Posted on: Big Darn Crabs

I can understand the attraction of Shanghainese lessons to those non-Shanghainese who work/live in Shanghai, but I wonder what relevance it is to the majority of your listeners (i.e. paying customers)?  If you must do a dialect, why not Cantonese?  Outside China, it is the language/dialect most spoken in Chinese-owned shops and restaurants besides Mandarin.

Posted on: An Introduction!

I do hope that "Shanghainese" is only an occasional  - very occasional - feature on Chinesepod!  It may be novel for those who don't live in Shanghai to learn a thing or two about Shanghainese, but anything more would be absolutely unbearable!  Remember, I subscribe to Chinesepod to learn Mandarin Chinese, not Shanghainese, not Cantonese, not …….