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Posted on: Getting to Know CPod Teacher Helen (and exciting content news)!
March 15, 2010 at 9:49 PM

that's really interesting. I didn't know they're so closely related.

Posted on: The Customer Comes First
March 15, 2010 at 8:13 AM

thank you Connie!

Posted on: The Customer Comes First
March 15, 2010 at 8:13 AM

thank you!!

Posted on: Getting to Know CPod Teacher Helen (and exciting content news)!
March 15, 2010 at 7:10 AM

go manly,

I'm sorry, but your lame dictionary is wrong

Posted on: The Customer Comes First
March 15, 2010 at 2:53 AM

just to give you guys a heads-up, the traditional version of 困 is 睏。 (second to last sentence in the expansion section)

Posted on: The Customer Comes First
March 15, 2010 at 2:51 AM

in the expansion section, there is a sentence with "Na4 jia1 gong1si1..." refering to a company. I was wondering if it is considered improper to say " na4 ge4 gong1si1"  instead. In other words, I was wondering if it would be improper to use ge4 as the measure word for "company" instead of jia1. I know that jia1 is the technical classifier for companies, businesses and stores  but I feel overly formal when I use jia1 in this context.

Posted on: Getting to Know CPod Teacher Helen (and exciting content news)!
March 15, 2010 at 12:28 AM

hi gomanley,

actually, if two ways of speaking are mutually unintelligeble, it doesn't mean they are two separate languages. They may actually be dialects of the same language.

Posted on: Getting to Know CPod Teacher Helen (and exciting content news)!
March 15, 2010 at 12:20 AM

xiaoliang, not all the words are different. 车is che1 in Mandarin and ce in Cantonese. 吗 is ma in both Mandarin and Cantonese. 买 is mai in both Mandarin and Cantonese. Based on your comment, I'm led to believe that you know very little about Cantonese.

Posted on: Getting to Know CPod Teacher Helen (and exciting content news)!
March 14, 2010 at 7:49 PM

I don't understand why so many people consider cantonese to be a completely different language than mandarin. This is totally false. The grammar is the same, the writing system is almost the exact same.

Posted on: Getting to Know CPod Teacher Helen (and exciting content news)!
March 14, 2010 at 3:35 AM

Cantonese, Hakka(客家话）， and MinNanHua(闽南话） are the three dialects I'm really interested in.

I've heard before that Beijing Dialect is just about the same as Mandarin and Jenny&John just confirmed this, so why start a new lesson series on it?

I also wouldn't mind learning a bit of Sichuan dialect, but this one is last on my wishlist