User Comments - garst
garst
Posted on: The Seven Year Itch 3: Extramarital Involvement
November 30, 2011 at 12:22 AMI must be missing something or doing something wrong, but when I go to the dashboard this lesson didn't come up, the lastest one on my dashboard is the upper inetermediate one on Japanese go. To get to this lesson, I had to enter chinesepod.com on google, then hit the link on the latest lessons. What is going on here? Even worse, the bloody exercises don't come up when I press the link, all that comes is the heading "exercises" with a grey screen below. I tried signing out and resigning in--not sure if did that successfully, but this problem still came up. It's been very hit and miss with these lessons lately, sometimes the exercises come up no problem, but much of the time they don't and, needless to say, it's highly annoying. I'm sorry for venting in this forum, but I can't seem to locate the link to send help requests. In the past, chinesepod was much easier to use, but now it's a real hassle. Sorry, very disappointed, don't like wasting valuable time like this, as you say, your service is for busy people, when we have to fight technical issues constantly, then it's not a good thing.
Posted on: Market Research 1: Consumer Survey
October 13, 2011 at 12:38 AMActually I'm in Beijing, maybe it's the utter crap internet we have at work (I'm at a Chinese SOE doing training work). I'll give the house a try. I had the same problem, albeit not as bad, with a much older lesson I did this morning. And I appreciate the response to my earlier comment. Thanks!
Posted on: Market Research 1: Consumer Survey
October 12, 2011 at 12:45 AMVery good lesson, the usual mix of interesting grammar, instructions on how to say thing, plus having it tied into contemporary Chinese social realities. But please fix the bugs in your technical set up. Nearly all of the expansion of part would not completely play, the same was true for the fourth dictation exercise. I find both the xpeansion and dictation to be really useful in helping my listening (the former for tone identification, the latter for all around listnining). I am therefore not very happy about that, plus this problem came on top of earlier difficulties downloading the lessons. Fortunately, that problem appears be solved--thank you for addressing it. Now make sure the expansion and dictatoin exercises can be played.
Posted on: The Night Club Experience
September 30, 2011 at 4:40 AMIt would be wonderful if I cound ataully access this lesson, once again, they're not dowloading, and you don't have a link for informing you about technical issues on the website, please fix these problems.
Posted on: Extreme Weather and Pollution
January 4, 2012 at 12:40 AMWhat a great lesson, topical, plus lots of really good vocab. Best of all, the usual excellent pointers on how to say things like Chinese people. Well done!!!