User Comments - chand
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Posted on: Pedestrian Peril
January 20, 2008 at 1:17 PMBill, obitoddkenobi....thanks guys for your advice and sharing your experience with language learning. It definitely made me feel that I should not berate myself, and just keep on truckin'. 7 years for average fluency...yikes...I guess I'm just an infant compared to that timeframe.
Posted on: Pedestrian Peril
January 20, 2008 at 3:36 AMI have to agree with RJBerki from my experience. I have been studying (using Chinesepod) Mandarin for almost 1.5 years now. My reading has progressed to the level where I can read 90% of all text through the upper intermediate level. This is very exciting. However, when it comes to listening comprehension I lag far behind. Case in point...if I watch a TV show or movie in Mandarin, I am usually "blown out of the water", feeling like they are speaking some other language. Yet, I can follow along almost all of the Chinesepod dialogs. Does this mean that I need to be immersed in China in order to jump to the next level, so that I am constantly listening to Mandarin? The fact of the matter is that with the exception of Chinesepod, I hear virtually no other Mandarin in day to day living.
Posted on: 好莱坞大片
January 14, 2008 at 3:13 AMthanks Amber, it is working now :)
Posted on: 好莱坞大片
January 14, 2008 at 1:06 AMEchoing many other people above, the pdf does not open. Is it damaged?
Posted on: 定做的噩梦
December 25, 2007 at 7:20 AMSorry for being off topic, but I travelled tp Hengyang in the province of Hunan last week (I live in Canada), and I was amazed to see so much Christmas stuff everywhere (Santas, decorations, trees, lights, etc). I expected commercialization in Beijing, but not to this degree off the beaten path.
Posted on: A Jizhou Identity Revealed
December 1, 2007 at 7:32 PMI have to commend Jenny for this mini-series writing. With only a few minutes per episode to weave an interesting and captivating plot, while at the same time keeping function and language learning in focus, I tip my hat. I look forward to each episode like a favorite soap.
Posted on: Give Me a Kiss
November 24, 2007 at 4:00 PM> Ha ha... I have to admit, kids' voices are not our strong suit . I'll tell you what is a strong suit though. Sheep! The Jizhou episode with the sheep blocking the road. My son is so taken by the cuteness of that sheep baa-ing that he now wants a sheep for a pet. *argh*
Posted on: Cold Will Kill You
October 30, 2007 at 2:04 AMThis poor kid is scarred for life by his grandma. No clown could have put this much dread into him. This paid announcement funded by the Clown-Association-of-America.
Posted on: Scary Clown
October 29, 2007 at 10:20 AMNow you've done it. Never again will any self-respecting clown subscribe to ChinesePod. You've shot yourself in the foot.
Posted on: Pedestrian Peril
January 20, 2008 at 4:36 PMAuntie68, first let me just say that I am so very grateful for your encouragement. I felt so happy after reading your comments. It made me want to redouble my efforts to adequately acquire Mandarin comprehension. I was born in India (raised in Canada), so I do understand Hindi and Punjabi languages. I do not know Bengali, although I have some Bengali friends. Here is funny anecdote. My vocabulary in Mandarin is now larger than my vocabulary in Hindi. Yet, I can follow Hindi conversations, movies, TV, etc with ease, yet Mandarin comprehension still remains very challenging. Maybe this is why I have felt kind of "stupid" learning Chinese...though logically I know that I acquired Hindi as a baby in India, and am tackling Mandarin as an adult outside China.