User Comments - chris
chris
Posted on: New Breadmaker!
March 1, 2015 at 10:53 PMI'm liking Fiona's tips for remembering things like the mai3 vs mai4 distinction and also her haochu vs youdian memory tip in this week's qingwen. These memory tips make all the difference!
Posted on: Advantages:「优点」yōudiǎn VS 「好处」hǎochù [Video/Audio]
March 1, 2015 at 10:16 PMBrilliant. These are exactly the types of grammar points I get tripped up on. Chinese people always understand my meaning but I know I'm being clunky. Short succinct qw episodes like this address exactly what I'm after. keep it up!
Posted on: Goodbye to Shanell
July 28, 2014 at 1:10 AMMany thanks Babyeggplant and all the other hosts over the last (almost) 10 years! It's been, and continues to be, a great journey.
So, Jenny, are there plans a foot for a big 10 year anniversary party in SH for next year?!! That would be the mother of all CPod meet ups!
Posted on: Math Class Woes
June 28, 2014 at 3:18 PMDo they not give detentions in Chinese schools? This was the standard form of punishment back in the UK when I was at school 20-25 years ago.
Posted on: Math Class Woes
June 28, 2014 at 3:11 PMUseful lesson. I still get tripped up with fractions and percentages, even after living here for almost 8 years now!
Posted on: Math Class Woes
June 28, 2014 at 2:23 PMthe 'erbs' thing is all very French ;-)
Posted on: Airbnb
June 1, 2014 at 6:22 AMOK, my bad. It transpires that my laptops were using some program called "PDF Converter Enterprise 8.1" to open the PDFs. I've now installed latest version of Adobe and they work fine.
Posted on: Airbnb
June 1, 2014 at 5:37 AMthanks mike, in that case the issue must be at my end. Maybe our company is still running an out-of-date Adobe version or something.
Posted on: Airbnb
June 1, 2014 at 3:40 AMHas anyone had a chance to look at the overlapping Hanzi issue in the lesson PDFs? It's still not fixed for this one. I'm trying to copy and paste an example image into this comment, but this is unfortunately technically beyond me. As said before, I've tried opening the PDF on various devices (two different Windows laptops and also my wife's Macbook Pro) but the issue persists - which makes sense given a PDF is meant to be device agnostic. Would be good if CPod could get this fixed, otherwise I'm wasting time having to look up the word in my dictionary app in order to see the strokes clearly.
There is also the slightly lesser point of why the size of the PDFs has increased from around 200kb to 1,800kb. Given the very limited amount of text and lack of any imagery, this really doesn't make sense to me why each PDF is so big.
Posted on: Touch Your Toes
March 3, 2015 at 10:29 PMThanks for the thigh vs calf explanation. I can't believe I've never come across the datui vs xiaotui before. Clearly not doing enough yoga!