User Comments - mark
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Posted on: Haggling Like a Local
April 23, 2010 at 4:42 AMI am afraid to start studying a different language. Foriegn languages seem to get mixed up in my brain. So, I think it might interfere with Mandarin. Anyone else have this trouble?
Posted on: Passive Verbs and 被
March 20, 2010 at 1:40 AMWierd, on the way home from work National Public Radio (NPR) had a story that taught us 被和谐、被自杀、被就业。
Posted on: 花木兰上集
March 18, 2010 at 1:33 AM对白太少吧！CPod以前我学习了成语故事，所以生词也不多。
Posted on: Special Green Hat
March 17, 2010 at 1:46 AM
Adds a whole new dimension to the leprichan thing.
Posted on: 中年危机
March 9, 2010 at 3:27 AM你们怎么知道的？明天我和我的老婆说了很像的对话。（就是开个玩笑）我在中年危机中不想买跑车而想真的学好中文。 哈哈。
Posted on: Man-to-Man Advice on Women
March 8, 2010 at 7:44 AMThe lesson titled "She is Easy" is perhaps where we first met 依依。 If so, she is a match made in heaven for the unnamed, B:, in this dialog. I recalled this because I had my mp3 on random mode while I drove home tonight.
| Hosts: | Jenny, John |
| ID: | 0557 |
| Difficulty: | Intermediate |
| Published: | June 25, 2007 |
Posted on: Man-to-Man Advice on Women
March 6, 2010 at 4:35 PMFor those of you who find Upper Intermediate too challenging, didn't you have similar issues transitioning from Elementary to Intermediate? And after a while, didn't your complaints about intermediate fall by the way side?
Anyway, my problem is a different one. It is hard to find enough appropriate study material to get from CPod student to fluent. I think that is a much bigger and more important gap than the one between U and UI lessons, and a harder one to fill in than just wanting more explanation for a particular turn of phrase.
[BTW, I still consider myself at UI level, because in lots of respects my Chinese is still pretty bad, especially in regard to speaking and active vocabulary. I still usually need to study the transcript and listen a few times to understand all of the content of a UI lesson. I wouldn't follow the dialog completely if I encountered it one time in the wild, as is how normal conversation is conducted. I am hungry for more material to bridge that gap.
The advanced lessons are another notch up in difficulty, but there really are not enough of them for my purpose, and they well beyond where I hope to be actively speaking anytime soon.]
Posted on: Let's Just Be Friends
March 5, 2010 at 7:29 AMBeing "turned down" is never pleasant. The basic scenario is that you went out on an emotional limb to ask for something (friendship, a loan, a job...) and your counter-party declined.
Interestingly, "turned up" can't be used to mean he/she accepted your proposition. "rejected" might imply the refusal was permanent and unconditional, but sometimes the usage is pretty similar.
e.g. The love of my life rejected me. (She never wants me to darken her door again.)
She rejected my advances on the first date. (Maybe, later dates will have a different outcome.)
I asked my boss for a raise, but he turned me down. (Maybe, I could do good work for a few months an then ask again.)
Posted on: Man-to-Man Advice on Women
March 5, 2010 at 4:23 AMTo answer the question at the end of the lesson, I prefer more content to more explanation. I think I learn best when I encounter a word or phrase in different contexts and more content makes it more likely that I will encounter more words and phrases. Also, Cpod's combinationn of content with transcript and discussion is uniquely valuable to me.
Also, I don't like to think when I talk :=) Meaning, I don't think about explanations while my poor brain searches for the right word or phrase.
Posted on: 网络红人
May 1, 2010 at 11:59 PM其实我只知道芙蓉姐姐。我发现了一首我喜欢的歌，然后请一个网友帮我找到这首歌的对白。网友告诉我这首歌讽刺芙蓉姐姐，而且她很讨厌芙蓉姐姐。之后我研究一下了，找到了一些视频，不过我认为在美国怪人是普遍的而芙蓉姐姐没突出，只看起来比平均的性感。
其他的红人我不知道，而且觉得这堂课程混交他们的特点。
我还有另一个问题。 奇草泥马有什么意思？我还不懂课程内的解释。