User Comments - mikeinewshot

Posted on: Preparing Traditional Chinese Medicine

Thanks Eran.

Where does your man practice? Have you experience of his efficacy?

Posted on: Ways to Say "Stubborn"

This all seems to be over the top.

To be perfectly honest Mr 'Полугаевский', I do find the English of the introduction very slightly unnatural, but that is of no consequence, and I agree with you that it clearly should not be the subject of criticism.

If really wish to share qualifications, I am English, have Master's degrees from two universities including Oxford, have a teaching qualification, speak several languages, some fluently.

I have yet to write my book, or indeed any post on this site as long as yours :-)

Incidentally why do you identify with Полугаевский rather than any other great player?

Posted on: Tropical Fish

My punt is as follows:

有什么区别吗 = Is there any difference?, 有什么区别 = What is the difference?

Is that correct?

Posted on: Letting it All Out

Just started to listen to this lesson.

The guy sounds like he is in some sort of echo chamber/down the end of a tube... or ...   Hard to hear what he is yelling about (My hearing does have issues)

Is that intentional?

Posted on: Networking Event

Looks like the new Soundcloud is playing the insurance podcast for every lesson! Cool

Posted on: The Handover

The new Soundcloud link plays the same lesson whatever lesson you try to play.

Posted on: 玉林狗肉节

I have just listened to this lesson once through only, and since it is at the limit of my abilities will need to revisit several times.

One small thing I spotted was that Jenny and David seemed to be discuss 接踵而至 while the pdf vocab has 接踵而来. I assume they mean the same.

Interesting that you have included the audio within the lesson, so no copyright issues I guess. Thank you for no background music to the news broadcast, and virtually inaudible for the rest.

If I were to think too much about what animals I was eating, I would have to become vegetarian.

Posted on: Preparing Traditional Chinese Medicine

David: So eating the 'erbs' is not sophisticated but throwing them on the street is part of the cure...? How can we take 中药 seriously?

Posted on: Those Pesky Mosquitos!

It may be that some non native English speakers may not appreciate the somewhat subtle meaning of 'It's only a mosquito', which you describe as containing a value judgement, so they may not be able to answer your question precisely.

Posted on: Which one is Which

Surely 第几个 is similar to the Englilsh 'which one?'

There is confusion in my mind between 哪个？ and 什么？ but you did not deal with this. For example, simply: 什么东西？ 哪个东西？ usage.

I didn't catch what Shanell objected to as being sexist though ...