User Comments - jonshock
jonshock
Posted on: Speaking with 跟 (gen) and 对 (dui)
January 16, 2011 at 6:03 PMGreat Qing Wen, thanks for another very useful one.
How can you alter these constructions to use 'we'. Rather than I talk with you, simply to say we talk. For instance, I'm always a little unsure whether I could say at the end of a conversation, let's talk tomorrow, or let's chat tomorrow.
让我们明天说话吧！Or would you use 谈一谈 or 聊天 in that casual context?
Posted on: Here she comes
January 8, 2011 at 2:47 PMok, I agree that this isn't as trivial as I thought. The fact that there seems to be a general consensus however that this is an easy ellie (and that I see these in the conversation threads quite often) makes it clear that such an opinion can be reached. Perhaps just an easy/hard button for people to vote whether a lesson is an easy or hard ellie would be enough to rank them in some way. Thanks for the thoughts!
Posted on: Here she comes
January 6, 2011 at 2:56 PMIn relation to the questions about putting this in a set of lower level intermediate Chinesepod lessons, how about if all lessons could be ranked for difficulty (within each level - newbie, etc.) by us poddies, and so users can then search for the easiest, hardest etc. within a given ranking? Of course there will be large subjective differences, but the user-base is now large enough that these should be pretty well ironed out with large numbers of listeners.
Presumably given that users can already rank a lesson for how good it is, this would not be a complicated addition.
Posted on: Speaking with 跟 (gen) and 对 (dui)
January 18, 2011 at 9:24 PM:-) thanks!