User Comments - mark
mark
Posted on: Regional Variations on Helpfulness
November 19, 2013 at 4:51 AMAh, "face" that mysterious concept.
Posted on: Visit to a Temple (Part 2)
November 11, 2013 at 12:28 AMI think there aren't really 18 specific changes, just the grown woman is completely different from the little girl she once was.
Posted on: CCP Political Slogans
November 11, 2013 at 12:11 AMTingyun,
As usual, your post is quite informative. In the US, I think most people don't make distinctions between various schools of communist philosophy, nor try to understand the theoretical relationship between communism and socialism. Communism is just a pejorative word, where if the label sticks, there is no need for further understanding. Socialism is just a slightly less pejorative word. So, what you wrote is illuminating, if read with an open mind.
However, I think it is likely that if someone wants to truly understand China, especially, the political aspects of China, they would be well served to delve into the nuanced topics that you broached.
Best regards,
Mark
Posted on: CCP Political Slogans
November 9, 2013 at 7:16 PM@Bohan2007, I've seldom, or never heard anyone say, capitalist America. So, maybe you should go with, 在中国共和党是唯一的有权利的党。
Posted on: CCP Political Slogans
November 9, 2013 at 3:54 PMWell, you can call it 中国大陆，then.
Posted on: CCP Political Slogans
November 9, 2013 at 5:23 AMI believe the official name of China is 中华人民共和国, but I could be wrong. its one of those set phrases that requires memorization, and given time my mind has ways of rebelling and changing memorized things around.
Posted on: 高考英语改革
November 3, 2013 at 12:40 PMpodster你有什么意思？有几版投票资料，所以大家能用自己的母语看它们。
Posted on: 不一样的《阿凡达》
November 3, 2013 at 12:51 AMI seem to have caught up to where I started studying media lessons as they came out. So, I can no longer use archive lessons to fill in in the off weeks when CPod doesn't publish a media or advanced lesson, without repeating a past lesson, but I repeated this one. It seems easier the second time around. I can appreciate that the blog post it is based on is thought provoking and well written, where before I struggled a bit to extract the meaning of each sentence. I hope that means that my Chinese ability has improved in the intervening three plus years. Day to day, I never notice any improvement.
Posted on: 高考英语改革
October 30, 2013 at 2:59 AM在美国名牌大学一般都要求候选人都学习一个外语两年。大部分的高中只能教西班牙语、法文和德文什么的。我个人上大学的时候学习了俄文来弥补这个条件。基本上对说外语我们大部分都是哑巴。我四十四岁的时候第一次去了中国发现我的同事们都不习惯说英文，然后我决定我不想一辈子作为哑巴，所以开始自学中文。
Posted on: Alcoholic Attitudes
November 20, 2013 at 5:18 AM酒后写字会带来麻烦，所以我不说。