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chris
Posted on: Buying Goods from Abroad Online
April 21, 2013 at 6:59 AMthanks Vera, good explanation. I was wondering the same as Grambers, having just studied this lesson today.
Posted on: What Do You Like to Do on Weekends?
April 20, 2013 at 12:32 PMYep, we were using iPads to record. I always find listening to my own voice on playback sounds strange, whatever language!
Posted on: What Do You Like to Do on Weekends?
April 20, 2013 at 11:48 AMGreat to chat with you today Jenny. 有点奇怪在中文播客听到我自己的声音啊！
Posted on: The ChinesePod Meetup
April 20, 2013 at 5:02 AMA huge thanks to all the Chinesepod staff that gave up their time this morning. It was great to meet/see you again! Really enjoyed the session and found it very useful. Also nice to meet some fellow poddies. Here's to many more meet ups!
Posted on: The Glory of Labor
April 19, 2013 at 6:32 AMDepends where you work mate. Officially it is only Weds 1 May itself that is the holiday. At our place, they are time-shifting the preceding weekend such that Monday and Tuesday are days-off, but we have to work the Saturday and Sunday. In practice, this means we have a consecutive 7-day work week next week, followed by a 3 day break. However, I know that many of my MNC clients in Shanghai are giving their staff the Monday and Tuesday off AND they can keep the preceding weekend off as normal, so essentially a 5-day break. I believe I'm right in saying that government offices adopt the same practice as my workplace.
Posted on: The ChinesePod Meetup
April 19, 2013 at 3:53 AMSo who is coming tomorrow then?! Judging by last year's Shanghai meet up, there will be a significant number of people.
Posted on: The Legend of the White Snake (Part 2)
April 18, 2013 at 1:09 PMMike, I agree. It is the lack of context that makes the expansion sentences (particularly at the higher levels) so difficult. I also prefer to use them initially as listening comprehension practice. However, sometimes to mix it up I use them as reading practice first and then have a listen - cheating a little I know, but I still get listening comprehension value out of it.
Posted on: The ChinesePod Meetup
April 16, 2013 at 12:01 AMhanks, i think it's covered in the audio. You just need to send an email to meetup@chinesepod.com.
Posted on: Table Manners in the West
April 14, 2013 at 6:27 AMI love the way one needs to be anything but slovenly and sloppy when actually writing the Hanzi for 邋遢!! That first character is one of the most complex I've come across...
Posted on: Buying Goods from Abroad Online
April 21, 2013 at 7:00 AMHa, I'm glad darkstar94 raised this. I had exactly the same feeling. Now that I'm doing more and more UI lessons, I often come across sentences that take me a while to get my head around. This was a good example.