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Posted on: Chinese names, Avatar and Meet-ups

I always wondered what Jenny's Chinese name was. I guess I still don't know, since I don't know the character, but since I'm passing on learning characters in this round of Chinese learning, Qi is good enough.

Posted on: Getting to Know the Beauty Pageant Judges

having not listened to the lesson, but only read the pdf:

1) culturally, do Chinese ever really come out and say things like, "she's sleeping with the judge"? Dare I ask: how do you say in Chinese, "she's sleeping with the judge"?

2)Americans really use "sleeping with" someone as a euphemism for "having sex with".  Do Chinese even ever come close to saying something like that in public? Or is what is in the dialog about  as close as it gets in China?

Posted on: Designing the New Apartment

I do know that there are various options available for housing that goes up in China. I'm not sure that furniture is included in some of the options, but depending on the apartment, and the management company, there might be options around what you can do to the apartment itself. Certainly remodeling as it was mentioned in the lesson is done, but I would agree, it would more likely be a Chinese couple doing it, or a foreign couple with money to burn, and multiple houses in multiple locations worldwide.

Posted on: Chinese names, Avatar and Meet-ups

yeah, call it Cinema Corner or something, and revising the format so that we can have a pdf of cpod actors talking about key scenes in the movie that they though worked for them, or didn't work for them. Like Siskel and Ebert in Chinese or something, but only talking about 1 scene. Maybe about the entire movie, but I don't know how Cpod would have a critic lesson reduced to be simple enough to be at the intermediate level.

Posted on: Chinese names, Avatar and Meet-ups

nothing says that cpod couldn't have both an intermediate lesson on Avatar, as well as a media lesson on Avatar. But I suppose in practice, that would mean that other lesson topics would be pushed further down the queue for that particular level.

Posted on: Chinese names, Avatar and Meet-ups

If cpod is going to do an Avatar lesson, wouldn't it be helpful to just bring back Movie Madness, and have it center on topical films like Avatar, Transformers, Up, and so on?

Posted on: Chinese names, Avatar and Meet-ups

This is just my take, but probably an elementary or intermediate lesson on Avatar would have the most accessibility to the most people.

Posted on: Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

wow, simonpetterson, you're older than you look!

Posted on: Designing the New Apartment

good point. I know there was a lesson about taking off your shoes, but an American not used to living in Asia or having Asian American friends might have a hard time taking off their shoes going into someone's house just on habit. This could be an interesting little surprise.

Posted on: Designing the New Apartment

At first, I would have thought that the couple should have put carpet in the apartment (maybe that's just an American thing).  But it turns  out that wood or composite/pergo type floors are what go down.  Carpet gets filthy way too fast.  Vacuum cleaners seem hard to get anyway.