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Posted on: A New Home Page
September 5, 2007 at 1:52 AMOh. I just tried that, but nothing happened immediately. I guess I have to wait for some new lessons. BTW, Is there a quick way to flag old lessons as "studied"? (I've studied all of the U's and UI's, but it would be a drag to go back over them all to flag them.)
Posted on: It's Not Hard to Say Goodbye
September 5, 2007 at 1:42 AMI miss having the list of the three or four most recent podcasts on the home page. Now, I have to go looking for with level updated. ( I listen to all the levels. I just want a quick way to find what is new.)
Posted on: A New Home Page
September 5, 2007 at 1:42 AMI miss having the list of the three or four most recent podcasts on the home page. Now, I have to go looking for with level updated. ( I listen to all the levels. I just want a quick way to find what is new.)
Posted on: I'm hot!
August 27, 2007 at 4:15 AMSparechange, I recall one of the recent lessons talking about one character adjectives and one character nouns not requiring a 的 to separate them. Perhaps something similar is going on here.
Posted on: City Stats
August 27, 2007 at 3:26 AMDoes 南阳 really have a population of over 10 million? I ask because I never heard of it before and I thought that was about the size of China's very largest cities (北京，上海，重庆， 。。。）。 How many cities does China have with a population over 10 million? How many cities over 1 million?
Posted on: Abducted by Aliens
August 27, 2007 at 3:04 AMBTW, I'll offer an alternate explaination to John's about the Engish use of "in the fields". I grew up on a farm and when I waled *in* the fields, I litterally walked *in* the fields. The crops grown where I lived were conducive to this ( corn, alpha-alpha, soy beans). However, I wouldn't casually go walking into a rice field. It would be wet, muddy and icky. I would definately walk *beside* a rice field.
Posted on: Pushy Insurance Salesman
August 26, 2007 at 12:09 AMBTW, I tried using dict.chinesepod.com to lookup some words from the latest advanced lesson (关于章子怡)that I didn't find in cedict (open source Chinese dictionary), but no luck there either. So, I think the CPod dictionary might not be a comprehensive reference, yet.
Posted on: Pushy Insurance Salesman
August 25, 2007 at 10:15 PMvwkid1 beat me to the punch. 在美国接电话的时候说中文让推销人挂电话, 很好玩.
Posted on: Extreme Tourism
August 23, 2007 at 10:51 PMAbout 之所以。。。，是因为。。。, what kind of grammatical chunks fit in the ... ...? Are substitutions possible for the 是因为 part? If so, what are some examples? Thanks.
Posted on: It's Not Hard to Say Goodbye
September 5, 2007 at 1:52 AMOh. I just tried that, but nothing happened immediately. I guess I have to wait for some new lessons. BTW, Is there a quick way to flag old lessons as "studied"? (I've studied all of the U's and UI's, but it would be a drag to go back over them all to flag them.)