User Comments - chapman3us

Posted on: Come on up!

Frances,

English is the universal language for international radio communcations. The term "niner" is in common use. It is mostly used by airline pilots and marine operators. If I remember correctly from my amatuer radio operator days. "Nine" was changed to "niner" to avoid confusion with the German word for "no" which is pronounced  the same as "nine".

Posted on: At the Hair Salon

Can someone put me in touch with investor relations? With Jenny saying "Subscription is sexy", half of the none Mandarin speaking males in the world want to sign up. And with Ambers transform from model to super model. ( medusa to model is an under statement. The camera loves you! ) The other half want to sign up! I want in on the ground floor of this! I can see that huge spike on the charts now. :-)

Thank you very much for listening about the videos. You all are doing a very great job!  From the comments we each have a different way for learning, but I think one common thing is that we enjoy the lessons.  You all always try to make the lessons very enjoyable. I myself have tried rosetta stone.  They do not have the pdf's and the wonderful discussion groups. And their lessons are very dry.

Personally what I enjoy most about the videos are the sense of Chinese culture. I enjoy seeing pictures of Shanghai and other places. I plan to travel there. I hope the shock will not be to great.

Keep up the great work!

Thomas

Posted on: The 80/20 Rule

I wonder if this is related to my 50/50 90/10 rule. If I have a 50/50 choice, 90 percent of the time I make the wrong choice! :-)

Posted on: Olympics and more...

Da jia hao,

This is my first post here. I having been lurking for about three months. I think this is a very important discussion so I will add my 2 cents worth. I hope I will not offend anyone!

When I look at the Lesson Channels. I see 270 Newbie, 200 Elementary, 165 Intermediate, 102 Upper Intermediate, and 133 Advanced.

Newbies are CPOD'S bread and butter. With the Olympics, I think many people are coming here to learn a little bit of zhong wen for the Olympics. CPOD has done a wonderful job. Once the Olympics are over, it will be people who want to learn zhong wen seriously. I see "Newbie" lessons as a base to take "Elementary" lessons. Which is a base to take "Intermediate" lessons. And so on and so on...

I am a "Newbie". I am just about to graduate to "Elementary". I think there is a very wonderful base of "Newbie" lessons. I have not even studied a fraction of them. I hope to be fluent in Mandarin someday. I would like to see the number of the upper class lessens balanced out. I know I will be studying these lessens soon.

I think the number of "Newbie" lessons could slow to catch up on the number of upper class lessons. I do not think this would do much harm to CPOD or the patrons.

Auntie68,

First, Thank you very much for your wonderful and very insightful comments. :-) Yes, Dear Ambers are a lesson, But I think they are a lesson into Chinese culture. I think Amber's lessons in culture are just as important as the lessons in Chinese language. You cannot seriously learn one without the other!

I think that QW is an enrichment class. They are very good. I cannot comment on media. Media is too far above me. If it is about news. I think the advance student could find these resources on their own. I do not think CPOD should waste their resources.