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marc__d

Posted on: Where's the bathroom?
May 23, 2008 at 4:30 PM

This is great practice of the difficult (for me) 4-3 tone combo: 在哪里. I tend to drift into a low voice if I'm not paying attention. And then at the end of 在 I run out of bass register to give 哪 a proper 3rd tone. It ends up sounding like zai-na-ehhh(choke). But 在哪里 is such an essential combo so I practice it a lot on its own. That helps me keep my voice in more of tenor range, making my on-the-fly tone production much easier in general.

Posted on: Welcome to ChinesePod
May 23, 2008 at 4:14 PM

As an old guy, my goal is to get to the intermediate level so I can listen to John & Jenny. John's personal story is very inspiring for someone like me, who finds Chinese pronunciation difficult despite never having needed speech therapy for English. Check out his helpful site at: http://www.sinosplice.com/ For now I am swimming in the Newbie pool of lessons, and I like Ken a lot too. I like Jenny's voice as well, and that's fortunate since I'm "stuck" with her for the long haul. Amber talks real fast, even in English! She's a natural DJ/host, always keeping the conversation moving. So far, 我爱chinesepod!