User Comments - mark
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Posted on: SBTG: Sun Yatsen
June 10, 2008 at 4:24 AMI am very fond of this series, because it covers a variety of subjects that don't come up in the usually more socially orriented dialogs. Keep it up!
Posted on: 跳莎莎舞
June 5, 2008 at 5:03 AM我以前没想到可能有中文同性爱的口音。很有趣。
Posted on: Billiards
May 28, 2008 at 3:21 AM很有趣的課程. 终于一个我喜欢的运动.
BTW, The CPOD family photo on the new home page is cute.
When I copy-paste dialogs from the dialog tab, the link to the sound shows up in the paste 太麻烦了！
Posted on: Regional Accents Part II
May 26, 2008 at 3:41 PMQuestion: Where is a standard accent spoken? It is a bit hard to believe 北京. Small grumble: I'm feeling input deprived this week. Sun-Sun there was no UI lesson, and this lesson feels like its not quite a CPOD lesson. That said, I like having material on accents alot. So, I'm conflicted.
Posted on: 成语俗语
May 26, 2008 at 3:27 PMDid anyone else notice that the pinyin in the lesson pdf doesn't match either the 汉字， nor the spoken dialog for several sentences? (I don't care that much, becuase I don't usually read the pinyin. Maybe, no one else cares either。）
Posted on: 成长的烦恼
May 19, 2008 at 5:42 AM直到了一些中国人亲戚的关系是很有趣的课程，可是这次看来新生词不多。
Posted on: Saved by the Gong: Geology
May 11, 2008 at 1:34 AMPS What's with the 强调声调？
Posted on: Saved by the Gong: Geology
May 11, 2008 at 1:31 AMCan you give us the names for different kinds of rocks? sedimentary ( sandstone, shale, limestone, ...) ignius ( granite, basalt, obsidian, pumice, ...) metamorphic ( quartzite, slate, schizt, ....) 谢谢
Posted on: Chicago
May 8, 2008 at 2:42 AMI lived on a farm when I was young. Chicago was the first big city I ever saw. I was about 9 at the time, and was really amazed. Now, it doesn't seem that big. It seems like many Chicagos would fit in Shanghai, for example.
Posted on: SBTG: Sun Yatsen
June 15, 2008 at 5:58 PM我完全反对Dave写的话。
A history lesson will probably never sound as casually entertaining as lover's spat, being abducted by aliens, or beauty pagent participants cat-fighting. However, both the topic and the specialized vocabulary are fascinating to me. (more input please).
I think even a straight lecture on 孙中山 would be fine with me, without the banter from the three stooges. However, I still think the "Saved by the Gong" series is an excellent vehicle for introducing more diverse topics. I didn't go through the Chinese school system, but much of what I know how to talk about in English is from topics covered when I was a student. It seems like this series is an excellent chance to catch up with how to discuss topics that an educated person in China would know how to discuss; things you would need to know to read a newspaper, etc.
I don't require drama and interpersonal conflict with every lesson. Rather, I want to be able to discuss any topic that I could discuss in English (not just soap operas) and I want to have the same topical knowledge that any educated Chinese person would have.