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Posted on: Keeping and Leaving

October 27, 2010, 12:51 AM

That's a really great idea...

Posted on: Site Updates and More Anniversary Videos

October 06, 2010, 03:17 AM

yeah, less frequent news and features is a good idea. the news on lesson content is basically boring. what are important are the news items about proposals for changes and the changes themselves. these are not so frequent as to justify weekly news and features.

i, too, have had the problem with subscribed lessons not appearing on my dashboard.

Posted on: There Is No Try

September 29, 2010, 11:15 PM

also, if you use FOXIT pdf reader, it is faster, smaller and much easier to edit in than acrobat. and it's free. just search for foxit in google...

Posted on: There Is No Try

September 27, 2010, 11:29 PM

alexlexilu: you can open the transcript in a new tab; then change the .pdf at the end of the web address to .html; and then you can copy and paste the text you want into a word processor. that way, you can have a document to practise on.

Posted on: Endless Summer

August 10, 2010, 12:16 AM

i think that this could be a useful series, though i am glad to hear that it is not going to (partially) replace QW. things that would be really useful:

1 i use Cpod on my computer, with a complex system of revision and repeating things that are forgotten. so i need an easily obtainable editable version of the transcripts. i can get the pdf off the site with a bit of complication (going through the html version), but this does not include the expansion exercises. so please:

(i) make it easier to download the text versions of these and

(ii) publish information about how to do it, so everyone else can know how to do it.

2 more material that explains how and why similar characters differ. QW spends a lot of time doing this for words - what is the difference between all the words that in english mean 'some', to quote a recent example. but writing (and therefore reading) is also important, and i found it hard to remember how to distinguish 像 and 象; or 义，议，忆。 tips about putting radicals together for differences of meaning; silly symbolisms; and ll those tricks that aid memory and reduce the rote part of learnign chinese.

things i don;t worry about so much: HSK, mobile