User Comments - pretzellogic

Posted on: 投资移民

Alabama? Huntsville, maybe. Tuscaloosa or Auburn maybe. Birmingham and Montgomery? hmmmm.

Posted on: Afternoon Meeting

I suspect the links are broken, but if you search on these terms below, you should be able to access the lessons.

Advanced - 商务发言 1：会议开始和会议议程

Upper Intermediate - Presentation on Trends

Newbie - I'm here for an interview

Elementary - Interview with an Athlete

Intermediate - Job Interview

Upper Intermediate - Interview with the Boss

Posted on: Motivating a Team

Hi questyn,

Thanks for the thoughts. My thoughts were really around the general displeasure I get struggling through reading characters. But you're right, it is a hurdle worth pressing through.

I guess I'm starting to think that it's really worth it for me to try and quantify what you're talking about regarding the time it takes to improve reading. Across the thousands of Cpod subscribers, there's enough information about how fast people are progressing in learning Chinese. Sadly, there's no simple way to collect the data. I would love that data to be captured, so that we could have metrics like: reading the hanzi in 3 chinese lessons seems to provide 10% retention in hanzi. Or Using Qing Wen to learn a sentence pattern benefits 90% of chinese learners to learn Chinese even over existing cpod newbie lessons. Newbie lessons take on average 30 minutes to study completely, but retention is the highest across all lesson types, from newbie to advanced.

Posted on: Motivating a Team

I realize that reading the chinese first before you read the english is really a good exercise. But it feels like drinking castor oil. I really need a measurable metric around improvement in this area. I am going to have to create one if I am to stick with this.

Posted on: Motivating a Team

Please don't squeeze the Charmin!!!

Posted on: Can I Sit Here?

Oh no. I have just learned another trick to be devilish, and I am already unleashed on the world.....

Posted on: Copy and Paste

I've thought about doing this. But there are too many commands for which you really better know the Chinese well. Otherwise, you'll have serious problems even using your computer.

Posted on: Copy and Paste

Cool helpful topic. Now we just need Ctrl-alt-del, ctrl-s, ctrl-z and ctrl-p!

Posted on: How do you take your coffee?

Beijing will have a starbucks at the airport to greet you. Depending where you live in Beijing, there's a starbucks, a ufc coffee, and a spr coffee, and a memoire cafe around the corner from where you live. Now if you're a connoisseur, you might want to bring your mongolian beans. Who knows what they sell at starbucks/spr/ufc/memoire...

Posted on: A Disgusting Man

I've already requested a lesson that would include the word "clippers" for hair. I can only hope that the word is the same for hair on your head, as in your nose. But maybe they are not the same words.