User Comments - mark

Posted on: Learning about Levels

The media level lessons contain a link to the original material. There was a period were some of the original material were video clips and such, but the early media lessons, and the ones for the past couple years all have a link to a blog post, or written news article. In these cases, I think the linked material counts as a script.

Posted on: Made-to-Order Calendars

Vera, I am, sort of an innocent bystander, but MGDB does include 模版 and defines it as template. I'm not sure， if MGDB is a definitive source, but I do use them on Windows. So, busybees isn't entirely hallucinating. I don't know what the source of his inner confidence is to know that Cpod is wrong and he is right. Perhaps, he is a world renowned scholar who is completely fluent in both English and Chinese, and he is generously contributing his wisdom here. Who knows?

Posted on: Calling an Ambulance - Part 2

I guess next time I plan to have a medical emergency in China, I will remember to bring cash for the ambulance.  Farewell, John.

Posted on: Building a Snowman

You guys are teasing me.  It has been very dry this winter in California.  So, there is very little snow in the mountains here.  If you have some extra, can you send it?

Posted on: Rose, Rose, I Love You

Franky Lane was before my time.  I've heard the name, but in the context of someone who was famous among folks older than me.  When I was old enough to chose music I wanted to listen to, rock and roll was the dominant form of pop music.  In comparison, the big band, melodious crooner music of my parents generation felt and feels pretty bland.

Posted on: Differing Attitudes to Medicine

偶尔头疼很难忍着，相比折腿骨更难忍着，所以头疼的时候我会吃任何药尝试治疼，被中毒了，我就无所谓。

Posted on: Spring Festival Plants

Here it is the poinsettias that come out during holiday season.  They are red and green to match traditional Christmas colors.  They seem to bloom right at the end of the year, or can be made to, I'm not sure.  I think they grow them somewhere in Mexico where it is warm all year.  Anyway, one puff of frozen air and they wither.   And of course, every kind of pine tree, hunkers in fear until Christmas passes, lest it become a 圣诞树。 

Posted on: S.H.E. and Super Star

I'd heard S.H.E.'s 中国话 before, but handn't paid much attention to them before this KTV Show.

Posted on: Superhero Movies

I'm glad the third lesson for this week was UI.  Three lessons that are Intermediate or above is almost a normal week from my point of view.  Thanks, CPod!  I get a Christmas present I wasn't expecting.

There were a couple key points where new vocabulary colored the meaning of the dialog (why the 帅哥 argument wasn't persuasive, for example), but John and Dilu did a good job of explaining point by point, as usual.  So, by the second playing of the dialog, I got it completely, for what it is worth.  Dilu seems to have some strong feelings on this topic.  So, her banter was maybe a little richer and complex than in a lot of lessons.  I enjoyed that part.

Posted on: Jiangnan

I can find it with the following search on Youku: 江南林俊杰.