User Comments - pretzellogic
pretzellogic
Posted on: The Broken Chair
January 16, 2009 at 1:33 PMpearltowerpete, changye, rjberki,
thanks for the feedback. All your comments imply that there is a contextual nature to the "ba" here. I guess when I heard the dialogue, the context didn't sound all that friendly, but that could be more a reflection of my mood. I suppose John is right when he says its one of those things you need to hear over and over again, then you get used to it being that way.
Posted on: The Broken Chair
January 16, 2009 at 2:57 AMI'm starting to have a crisis of confidence learning mandarin. But I at least understood this lesson.
Why did cpod translate "zou ba" as "please sit?". there wasn't a please anywhere, and I thought that zou ba was more a command or strong suggestion, or at least a suggestion. But not really a polite invitation.
Posted on: The Final Show
January 15, 2009 at 11:37 PMMergersandacquisitions, that's not the most amusing of comments.
Posted on: Terrorized at the Airport
January 15, 2009 at 3:09 AMOh, now that Air China is part of the Star Alliance, how do you say, "my frequent flyer number is....?"
Posted on: Terrorized at the Airport
January 15, 2009 at 2:14 AMI like it that cpod has these lessons of ordinary experience where everything doesn't go ok. Other language programs might give a scenario where you go through the security line, and everything's ok. On the other hand, cpod could have tried to turn this into a comedy of errors. Or have an experienced frequent flyer in a hurry, stuck behind an family of 5 traveling for the first time in an airplane.
Posted on: News and Features - Mid-January News
January 12, 2009 at 4:20 AMby the way, Cpod, is the forum using the uservoice service in a trial period? Is this forum something that will disappear with minimal use? Or is the forum already here to stay?
Posted on: News and Features - Mid-January News
January 12, 2009 at 4:13 AMredundant comment deleted
Posted on: News and Features - Mid-January News
January 12, 2009 at 4:12 AMGood job on the CPod user voice forum John and Cpod! Thoughtful implementation. Interesting that billgloveruk says that the forum has been up for awhile; I hadn't seen it, but then I wasn't really looking for it.
I'll suggest this in the forum, but I think the forum should be given billing on the me/lessons/community/resources (tab? bar? heading? not sure what to call it). My concern is that once the newness of the forum passes, "out of sight, out of mind" will occur, and users will forget that the forum exists.
I think it's interesting that out of however many thousands of cpod subscribers, only 66 bothered to vote for the top suggestion (as of the time that I looked at the top suggestion). Probably suggests that for the overwhelming majority of users, cpod is doing a fine job in users eyes as it is in language training.
Posted on: All the Things You Can Hit: 打 (dǎ)
January 10, 2009 at 10:08 PMQW won't be the same without Amber. JP and Connie are cool. who's going to step into the Amber role?
Posted on: The Broken Chair
January 16, 2009 at 1:37 PMurbandweller,
Thanks for the chinese/pinyin/english translation. I didn't know that Chinese went around saying "your brain is bad". I'm going to have to spend more time on the "chinese idioms" websites....