User Comments - mattwhyndham
mattwhyndham
Posted on: At the Hair Salon
September 5, 2008 at 5:36 PMGroovy! Can't wait for the next one. It does no harm whatever to have Amber fronting them I have to say. A longer one might be nice, with a higher rate of vocab items. But yeah, I like very much.
Posted on: The My Minefield
September 1, 2008 at 9:41 PM> in the context of me playing my own music, it would be ok to use
No, it still belongs to Sony, UA, Columbia etc. Didn't you get the nice letter from their lawyers??
Posted on: Changes on ChinesePod
September 1, 2008 at 9:35 PMas I understand it, any subscriber can continue to use itunes to slurp up their selected podcasts, something not very well explained in the News item. I thought at one point Ken was describing turning the flow of podcasts off altogether, which really would be a retreat to the 20th century.
Go to http://chinesepod.com/your_user_id_here/feedsettings and copy the feed URL in the box to ...
(itunes) Advanced, Subscribe to podcast ... there!
As it is, I think they should still let some of the warmth of the hearth out to the non-subscribers. Oh wait, they have ... on the site itself, via the biddy flash players!
Posted on: 会 (Huì) and 能 (Néng) Face-off
August 27, 2008 at 6:22 AM... and by the way, you must not say informations, staffs or any other pseudo-plural. Well, you can if you want, but please don't. There are such things as uncountable nouns.
Posted on: 会 (Huì) and 能 (Néng) Face-off
August 27, 2008 at 6:15 AMI think I've got it, except for want of a sufficiently general abstract model.
The bit about expert use got me going. An expert concert pianist would hui very well indeed, and hence be able to (neng) move a whole audience to tears.
Would it be correct to identify hui with overcoming internal barriers, especially through force of effort or will, and neng with overcoming external barriers, especially through innate or natural circumstances? And sufficient expertise (even if acquired through years of enduring bitter practice – ouch I don't envy poor Connie's keyboard) being good enough to count as innate?
Alcohol is the exception of course. Alcohol tolerance is genetic, and hence should be neng/natural. However, for whatever reason, digestion of alchohol is seen as the person themselves doing it, hence hui/effort.
Posted on: I Want This
August 21, 2008 at 1:37 PMyes. I got some answer less than 50% of the time. Less often if the lesson was issued before last week.
Posted on: I Want This
August 21, 2008 at 12:24 PMSame as Howard. I'm finding the Comments to be too noisy to be useful. I haven't got enough enthusiasm to wade through dozens and dozens of off-topic remarks. Let's have some threading, or separate streams for low-level chat vs lesson-related queries, please.
Posted on: Booking a Plane Ticket
August 21, 2008 at 12:14 PMlai = come
ci = occurence of something
hence lai ci = the next time something happens. This could be the imminent one (rather than the one after that).
Posted on: Tool Delivery
August 18, 2008 at 6:53 PMI think you've heard the rapidly uttered "gei wo" as "guo"
Posted on: New Lessons, Video, and Groups
September 7, 2008 at 11:44 AMyes, what is the deal with the whole groups thing?
I find them sort of less than completely functional, compared to, say, Flickr groups. Lots of interface issues need sorting out I think. Don't want to clog this comment stream up too much, is there a comment stream/conversation/group where I can raise these issues?