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Posted on: Trouble with Grades
August 22, 2007 at 5:53 AMHi Amber,in the expansion you use the example:他每次数学考试都考得很差。(Every time he takes a math exam he does very poorly.Do you put the object 数学 for the sake of topicality before the verb 考试?
Posted on: Interview with an Athlete
August 20, 2007 at 7:17 PMHi Jenny and Ken,你们已经拿到了教中文口语的金牌，应该真满意 Walter
Posted on: Pretty Ugly
August 19, 2007 at 7:16 AMhi changye, thanks: really helpful words
Posted on: Pretty Ugly
August 19, 2007 at 5:53 AMHi Bazza, 不对！你高明，滑稽 的幸运儿 (bu2 dui4! ni3 gao1 ming2,hua2 ji5 de xing4 yun4 er2) Walter in Berlin
Posted on: What meat is this?
July 30, 2007 at 2:05 PM大家好！（da4 jia1 hao3) making holidays in Shanghai and reading a critical Shanghai Daily article about the disgusting Guangzhou cat preparing and eating my commentary runs as follows:我评论：狗和猫应该苟全 （wo3 ping2lun4:gou3 he2 mao2 ying1gai1 gou3 quan2) Walter from Berlin
Posted on: Travel Itinerary
June 26, 2007 at 8:09 PMHi Bazza, 对提示中国的地图给franch我感谢你 Walter in Berlin
Posted on: Airport Announcements
June 9, 2007 at 6:37 AMHi,大家，你们好，there is a little bug in the expansion; the first line reads the second and so on til the fifth. After that line it's okay. Walter
Posted on: I can't buy my size
June 2, 2007 at 10:22 PMHi Piers, you said "( CPod.) They are teaching modular lessons without any structure to tie them together. We have just had a lesson full of grammar, but with no explanation of it at all!!! If I join CPod, am I supposed to go elsewhere to learn the grammar? At a beginning level, grammar and structured learning is essential, otherwise we become glorified "phrase utterers"." I can understand your frustration but can't underline your critics.Myself having started to focus mainly on chinese grammar was frustrated after three years of learning to the point of giving up because I was was basically unable to speak, because I learned a lot of rules without live application. But ChinesePod gives you indeed in small bits and pieces the respective grammar explanations.Many times I could read and listen to the explanations of Amber and John and Jenny p.e. for the three different de's（ 的，得，地）After your post I looked in my 5 chinese grammars (english,french, german) the respective entries up but couldn't find a hint for 有的卖，没的卖 . So, no way to get always a clear idea or a clear structure, because it might be an idiomatic intricate usage of de的. Jenny and Ken had pointed it out, if you might listen again to the lesson.It is the same for foreigners learning English( I am a German).You just have to adapt subliminally a lot of these idioms like a child does.And this is in my opinion the big advantage of ChinesePod ( "Mandarin..as a spoken language") to give us the ability to become a "phrase utterer" as you put it! My understanding of this difficult sentence was "yun4dong4 pin3pai2 (de shang1dian4 shi4) you3 de mai4" : 运动品牌(商店是）有的卖。 But now my question for Amber,Jenny, John: in the expansion I read the following sentence: 三楼是运动品牌，年轻人经常去那里买衣服。 (The third floor has athletic brands; young people frequently go there to buy clothing.) Why do you use the 是 shi4 .Could 有 you3 be used instead? 祝你们都很完儿的周末 Walter in Berlin
Posted on: Late Getting Back
May 16, 2007 at 9:07 PMHi John, great explanation, could you give me as well a hint regarding my second question: (他应该在家的.if you omitted the 的de, would it take a different meaning?) 多谢，Walter
Posted on: Number Two
August 29, 2007 at 8:36 PM大家好！what about the expressions 在盥洗室zai4guan4xi3shi4 and 坐在便桶上zuo4zai4 bian4tong shang4 = to go to the toilet: are they useful and used? Hi, Dongling: it's the German " großes Geschäft" Walter