User Comments - lechuan
lechuan
Posted on: Lessons and Comment Policy
July 12, 2009 at 6:23 PMAnother vote for hennings idea.
Posted on: News of Improvements and Last Week of May Promo
July 11, 2009 at 4:11 PMwww.englishpod.com can teach you!
Posted on: Lying in Chinese
July 9, 2009 at 1:36 AM@mystic, I used to be a newbie obsessive compulsive too. After about 200 I realized I was only learning maybe one new word in every newbie, so I started to alternate newbie and elementary. Once I found elementary was manageable, I started to alternate newbie/elementary/intermediate (which is my current rotation).
This will feed your obsession and let you maximize your progress :) If you insist on sticking to newbie once you're past that level, you'll be holding yourself back.
Posted on: News of Improvements and Last Week of May Promo
July 5, 2009 at 5:58 AMI'm starting to do the lessons in a more random-order. Scrolling through studied and unstudied lessonts to to find new lessons to study can be a bit tedious. Could we streamline the process by adding a "Hide Studied Lessons" checkbox that we can tick/untick on the lesson pages?
Thanks!
Posted on: Pinyin Sections 1-2
July 5, 2009 at 5:51 AMTo solve the many-students-mother-tongue-is-not-american-english problem: How about a "reboot" and breaking it down more:
Have one show for each ending; one for each initial.
ie. One show will have the ending 'a', shows how it sounds with all the initials, but concentrate mainly on the ending. Another show will have the initial 'b', shows how it sounds with all the endings, but concentrating mainly on the initial sound.
By giving each sound equal air time, this show can benefit speakers of all mother tongues. Lesson sets can be put together that target the common problems in the native language of the learner. It would be about 57 lessons, and at one lesson a week, could be completed in just over a year.
Posted on: Introduction to Pinyin
June 27, 2009 at 9:22 PMI have seen a number of students get hung up on pinyin pronunciation because they keep trying to pronounce them like their English equivalents.
That is where I think systems such as bopomofo excel; there are no preconceptions as to what the sounds 'should' be.
The most important thing to realize is that pinyin letters are just symbols that represent sounds (the fact that they all happen to look like letters in the english language, and that some of them sound similar, should be disregarded).
Posted on: The Final Show
June 12, 2009 at 5:41 AMKen, Apology Accepted :)
I second Hennings motion.
Posted on: The Final Show
June 11, 2009 at 7:38 PMThis remind's me of Aric's unprofessional blog entry bad-mouthing ChinesePod. Except now it's a chinesePod representative insinuating that a former employee is a liar in a public forum. Dissapointing.
Posted on: News of Improvements and Last Week of May Promo
May 28, 2009 at 7:58 PMFull List is great. Thanks! Is it possible to include an option to allow studied lessons not to show up in the lesson channesl?
Posted on: Lessons and Comment Policy
July 14, 2009 at 3:05 PMHow about introducing a "Lesson Q&A" tab?
Lesson Q&A would be strictly for Questions and Answers, and language-related discussions about the lesson.
The discussions can continue to exist as they already are, drivel and all.
This segregation would also make it easier for CPOD staff and poddies to see and respond to language questions.
A "move to Q&A" button in the discussion page and "move to discussion" in the Q&A page would allow the community to sort older lessons as well as fix up any misplaced posts. The "move" to buttons would keep the posts in their original "posted by date" order.
Thoughts?