User Comments - mark
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Posted on: To do
June 13, 2009 at 3:15 AMI like that the qing wen s have become more linguisticly focused; almost like getting another lesson.
Posted on: 小太监进宫二
June 10, 2009 at 5:22 AM我认为于小芬能做很酷的皇后。
Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 11: Wang in the Doghouse
June 1, 2009 at 1:38 AMAwh! I was hoping they would kiss and make up. This incident impells Lao Wang to go into business with his less than respectable partner, and he gets rich smuggling plague infested chicken wings. Then his new found wealth rekindles old flames, but then the love of his life tragicly dies of a disease contracted while eating chicken wings over a candle lit dinner. ... Lao Wang's laments would probably contain lots of juicy vocabulary.
Besides, there already is a murder case lesson.
Posted on: Pre-Marital Health Testing
June 1, 2009 at 1:20 AM在美国我们也有婚检，我记得我的。那时我感觉点尴尬，但是考上了。 这个课程很有趣，加油！
Posted on: Introducing Shen Yajin (Helen)
May 31, 2009 at 3:30 AMI will miss poems with Pete as much for the history lessons in the commentary, as for the linguistic content. (It will still be a few years before I can read Chinese poems without Pete.)
Posted on: Buying a House
May 29, 2009 at 4:12 AMMy wife didn't start bugging me to buy a house until after we married. 文化差异之一。
Posted on: Pregnancy Series 6: Shopping for the Newborn
May 25, 2009 at 3:37 PM@shenyajin, in this series the mother-in-law expressed a strong preference for a grandson and used some expressions describing the continuation of the family line. I assume cpod didn't just make her perspective up from their imaginations; she must be representative of some, but not all, real people.
Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 11: Wang in the Doghouse
May 24, 2009 at 4:42 PMSiteng, " If poddies want to be able to use an expression in other circumstances (and not just understand its function in one particular dialogue), then we need more information than just its colloquial equivalent in that particular context" -- personally, I think the best way to do that is encounter the phrase in enough Chinese contexts to get a feel for how to use it. The usage of words and phrases with equivalent meanings in one context is often different in other contexts.
But, I have to admit I'm kind of a non-partisan in the debate about appropriate English translations, because I haven't bothered to read them for some time. Rather, I just try to understand in Chinese.
It did seem like the explanations in the recorded lessons for fairly clear and rich in nuance, though.
Posted on: Pregnancy Series 6: Shopping for the Newborn
May 23, 2009 at 11:49 PMThe lesson commentary asked us to give suggestions for where the series should go. In that spirit, I think the baby has to be a girl. 我想知道婆婆会有怎么样的反应。 Will she try to drown the kid in the bath, or will she come to terms with the fact that there is no male hier to the family name?
Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 12: A Dodgy Opportunity
June 24, 2009 at 5:40 AMI must have a twisted mind, 老王 is getting more interesting for me. I can't wait for his next difficulty