User Comments - jacob

Posted on: Buying Train Tickets

Conversation is painfully slow, however useful words to learn in there!

Posted on: Chatting Online

The chinese conversation speed is quite slow, howeve useful conversation none the less.

Posted on: Awkward Silence

I know we need noob lessons, but this one maybe needs a category of its own, like "Super noob"

Posted on: Fasten that Safety Belt

In the traditional PDF, should:

開車要系安全帶。

be written as:

開車要擊安全帶。

Just checking, as I notice you can not get the first (simplified) version of jì on OS/X with the pinyin traditional IME, so I had to look it up in the dictionary.

Posted on: Reserving a Taxi Cab by Telephone

For the word 強生 what is the pronunciation?

• qiángshēng as pronounced in the lesson
• qiāngshēng as written in the PDF?

Posted on: City Districts in Shanghai

Do they say 公車 in China. It seems 公車 may be a Taiwanese variant?

Posted on: City Districts in Shanghai

I am curious to know why in the traditional PDF, the 嗯 character is written as "ng" instead of the pinyin standard "en", why is this?

Does this mean we can't trust the PDF's to be correct pinyin?

Posted on: Site Updates and More Anniversary Videos

The idea to make intermediate lessons that extend elementary lessons is brilliant. I cant wait for it to actually happen. This should help me with the jump from elementary to intermediate.

Posted on: An Email Introduction

I wonder if the indentation in the image/picture for this lesson is standard for an email? Any insights on this? It looks to me that perhaps standard western formatting is different?

Posted on: Politely Declining an Invitation

This is a perfect example of my main issue with learning to listen. When Jenny speaks the sentences I can hear them correctly 100% of the time. When they are in the guys voice I have no idea. We need more guy's voices as part of the lesson.