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johnrash
Posted on: Sailing
November 26, 2007 at 4:55 PMThe Fix came over on my feed with no Chinese translations of the vocab. Also Dave's voice in the transition to sentences is MUCH MUCH louder than the audio overall.
Posted on: Interviewing an Ayi
November 25, 2007 at 6:11 AM我刚刚发给Ask Amber这样的问题。 我以前不知道一个啊姨是什么。
Posted on: Thanksgiving
November 24, 2007 at 4:20 PM我最近开写中文博客。那里你能看有些我拍的感恩节照片。我给您们看看：http://www.kanbudong.org
Posted on: Adventures in Chinese Learning
November 24, 2007 at 12:49 AMTotally inspiring and equally demoralizing. How in the world can flashcards help with speaking though? I feel that I'm learning two languages at once... the written language and the spoken language. Of course one reinforces the other in terms of vocab and grammar, but speaking seems to only happen for me from practice with native chinese speakers in real-life conversation.
Posted on: Sydney, Australia
November 24, 2007 at 12:30 AMI'm a little disappointed we didn't see a return of Godzilla in this one (sorry Jenny).
Posted on: Thanksgiving
November 23, 2007 at 8:41 PMP.S. The Fix could be used for some of what I mentioned above as well. Maybe present the listener with a basic structure then offer a verb or noun and pause a few seconds while allowing us to formulate the answer in our own minds before giving it away. I think this kind of drill is almost essential to make the leap from Elementary to Intermediate learner.
Posted on: Thanksgiving
November 23, 2007 at 8:40 PMI'm with Sebire in terms of needing an expansion on the construction of the 是和家人在一起 sentence. Can we get more examples of this? CPOD excels at giving tons of hi-frequency and daily-life vocab, but might need some way to reinforce sentence structure and grammar. The podcast is a great place for this, as I can study the PDF for reviewing vocab and characters.
Posted on: Sydney, Australia
November 20, 2007 at 9:51 PMNO FIX? so sad...
Posted on: Romance in the Beauty Pageant
November 19, 2007 at 10:44 PMAmber 知道了。 说“他很花心“时候，那个人就是个花花公子。
Posted on: Yang Jie's Diary: He's Not Stupid
December 4, 2007 at 9:30 PMAny reason why the last 3 podcasts haven't come over on my feed in iTunes?