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Posted on: Same-Sex Marriage
May 21, 2014 at 8:16 AM

siteng: Seems your Mandarin ability is better than you think! I thought it was hard enough to be classified as upper intermediate although I have myself had problem with some of the lesson levels recently being 'too' low.

Posted on: Buying Exercise Equipment
May 20, 2014 at 8:01 AM

只是我自己的看法。 尤其是她(那个老师)经常用的英文词是很简单的,比如她说 ‘这个东西要change了'。对我来说很麻烦!

Posted on: Buying Exercise Equipment
May 20, 2014 at 6:05 AM

Wow thanks a lot.

I would never have got 五变成四。

And I was in 'listening to Mandarin mode' not expecting English for 在squeeze hence my siguyisi! (Actually I really don't like listening to Mandarin with English words popped in from time to time. I go to a Chinese class where the teacher does just that - I just wish she would just speak Mandarin)

Posted on: Buying Exercise Equipment
May 20, 2014 at 5:41 AM

I enjoy listening to Jenny speaking Mandarin during these podcasts as it gives me some puzzles.  Near the end Jenny says something like: wubianchensi - is that right?  Near the beginning at about 1:50 she says something like 'zaisiguyisi' which I can't work out, just before she uses the word 挤 to pinch.

According to web sites I look at 50 kilos at 155cm is right in the middle of the recommended 'normal' range, but there is room to slim(!) until about 45 kilos when you would be regarded as underweight.

I much prefer to do sport for exercise rather than go to a gym, so I have no idea what an 'elliptical' or a 'weight loss robot' are.

Posted on: 内地小孩香港街头便溺调查
May 19, 2014 at 10:48 AM

An (admittedly cursory) look at the these links still makes me a unsure as to whether a news item placed specifically for public consumption, like a news item, by the author can be deemed to be available ... That is why I wondered if Chinesepod might like to answer the question from their point of view.

Posted on: Going to Moganshan
May 19, 2014 at 10:40 AM

How are such places affected by the air pollution these days?

Posted on: Got the Wedding Invitation, Bro?
May 19, 2014 at 6:40 AM

谢谢Vera

Posted on: It's Written in the Stars - Part 3
May 19, 2014 at 6:36 AM

谢谢Jenny。 好像我的听力还很差。尽管知道你说‘阴阳’了我还听得不正确。

Posted on: 内地小孩香港街头便溺调查
May 18, 2014 at 6:27 PM

Thanks - I guess that is what I suspected.

I can't quite get my head around copyright applied to the internet though, as just anybody can access the page and the information is 'copied' onto their screens... Does that mean that printing an internet page is illegal?

Posted on: 内地小孩香港街头便溺调查
May 17, 2014 at 12:04 PM

http://baby.163.com/14/0423/08/9QGJR7E800364MNT.html

Actually Chinesepod give the link to it at the top of this page in red characters.