User Comments - floalvarez
floalvarez
Posted on: Preparing New Year's Dinner
February 1, 2014 at 11:35 AM
新春来临，祝所有的 poddies 马年吉祥，马到成功，马上发财!
Posted on: 神话故事之女娲补天
January 29, 2014 at 11:03 PMHi zaphekiah I have decided to post my questions and vocabulary for new lessons to share and interact with other poddies while I am still a subscriber.
Posted on: 神话故事之女娲补天
January 26, 2014 at 4:22 AMHi zaphekiah, I am glad that our comments and questions have helped you although recently, ChinesePod has not been answering our questions. I understand if the lessons are from a few years back but it seems that they do not do it with new lessons either. This is sad because when I posted my transcription in a website a few months back, I got over 400 pages IP addresses of hits (according to Weebly) so I know that many poddies are interested in some sort of "study group". I do not know what ChinesePod is up to but 我不要对牛弹琴 so future postings will not be coming! Also, we will be moving to Texas in March and my husband thinks I should work on my Spanish because Texas is presumably more Hispanic than Florida. My involvement with Chinese is going to slow down considerably until we will have settled down. Meanwhile, I will sit back and observe ChinesePod. Good luck with your Chinese!
Posted on: Antique Appraisal Reality TV
January 21, 2014 at 9:38 PMJust saw your post. Veronique21 already gave you the link.
Posted on: Antique Appraisal Reality TV
January 21, 2014 at 8:40 AMSome of my sources are more accurate than others and it seems from my observation that the new crew are bilingual. It also appears that John's company can use the Chinese Pod materials (I read this from his website but I could be wrong if I read this on an early morning without my morning caffeine yet). We will never get to know everything but I am glad Jenny is still around.
Posted on: Antique Appraisal Reality TV
January 21, 2014 at 8:32 AMJust saw your post. Jenny finally came out and made an official statement.
Posted on: Job Shopping in Modern China
January 19, 2014 at 11:28 PM信任 is to trust and 相信 is to believe.
Posted on: Antique Appraisal Reality TV
January 17, 2014 at 6:25 PMChinese Pod has a new CEO and Jenny, John, Jiaojie and Connie are gone. Maybe more staff were eliminated. They have not been answering my questions either. I am maintaining and wait and see attitude.
Posted on: 广交会
January 15, 2014 at 12:46 AM
一些词汇:
批量 pī liàng batch; lot
门槛 mén kǎnthreshold; a doorsill
外贸 wài mào the foreign trade; the external trade
拥挤 yǒng jǐ crowded; jam-packed
订单 dìng dān (purchase) order
拓展 tà zhǎnexpand
内涵 nèi hán intention; connotation
发帖 fā tiēto post (an item on a forum)
走运 zǒu yùnto be in luck; to have to be very fortunate
商贸 shāng màotrade and commerce
时事 shí shì current events; the present situation
批准 pī zhǔn to approve; to ratify
集市 jí shì a country fair; a marketplace
许可证xǔ kě zhèng a license; a pass; a permit; authorization
供货商gōng huò shāng supply of merchandise
介绍会jiè shào huì briefing session
说明会shuō míng huì information meeting
输出贸易 shū chū mào yì export trade
对外贸易 duì duì mào yì foreign trade
电子商务 diàn zǐ shāng wù e-commerce
展出形式 zhǎn chū xíng shì display format
Posted on: 神话故事之女娲补天
February 4, 2014 at 12:47 PMI had learned Chinese in a Chinese School as a child in the Philippines (roughly 3 hours per day in the afternoon) before the government decided to limit it to 1 hour. I was in the last graduating class so you can say that I learned Chinese the traditional way which was memorization, no fun and no frills.
I started out with Chinese Pod in the Upper Intermediate level and although we learned to read in Mandarin and Hookien in the Philippines, we used the dialect at home and in society, so my main focus has been on listening comprehension. Then, I found out that the 白话语 which started after the Qing Dynasty I think, has grown especially in the field of international business and technology while I was adjusting to life in the US and of course, vocabulary study is another major task.
There used to be a flashcard at http://www.mandarintools.com/ where I studied and reviewed the 4000 Chinese characters from time to time. I cannot access it now.
China has a big population of young people, and if you include Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, keeping up with the language development is a daunting task. I had a vocabulary question in one Chinese Pod lesson and asked for help from a Taiwanese friend. She in turn asked for help from her husband who goes on business trips to the Mainland regularly and her niece, who constantly uses Baidu. Even our former school principal from Taiwan could not help her daughter in her translation job in an international company, saying that her Chinese is outmoded! So my attitude is enjoy, have fun, maybe I can do some translation work when I retire!