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Posted on: New Employee in the Office
February 1, 2011 at 3:28 AMIt's good that Cpod is introducing a "bridge level" lesson between intermediate and upper intermediate. I am curious about how Cpod decides which words and how many words to include in the vocabulary. After going through about 70 intermediates, I note that there are about 40-60 words that are new to me in the 7 intermediate lessons that I've gone through. It would be helpful to have a larger list of vocabulary words to go through; that way, we could get more words into the Cpod Fix that Cpod could help explain. I am sure that doing this would make the Fix file size bigger, which would present its own challenges.
Posted on: New Employee in the Office
February 1, 2011 at 3:07 AMwell, the latest is a bit more detail than I was aware of at the time that MIIT came out with its announcement. But I guess the net result is still the same: Nothing happening to skype in the near term at least. Stay tuned.
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/01/03/skype-china-ban-reports-overblown/
Posted on: Switching Seats on a Plane
January 31, 2011 at 2:53 PMyeah, and usually i'm at the window seat sitting next to 1 or 2 people who can go for 12 hours without having to go to the toilet :(
Posted on: Switching Seats on a Plane
January 31, 2011 at 12:38 PMOn the bus, and on the subways, there are definitely seats reserved for pregnant mothers. It helps to be showing. On Beijing buses, if the ticket taker 公交元 gōngjiāoyuán sees you are with child, they'll chase someone out of a seat reserved for pregnant moms, the sick, or the elderly. the - the ticket taker
Posted on: Switching Seats on a Plane
January 31, 2011 at 7:53 AMmaybe they serve popcorn in business class! This is definitely not United though.
Posted on: Switching Seats on a Plane
January 31, 2011 at 2:03 AMIt seems like 30% of the time, someone's looking to switch seats to sit next to a spouse. I never give up the window seat for an aisle though.
Posted on: Presentation on Trends
January 29, 2011 at 2:59 AMI guess there isn't really a word for "widgets" in Chinese.
Posted on: Registering for a Dating Website
January 28, 2011 at 10:13 AMAt the end of the day, I guess we just disagree about the process behind finding a mail-order bride.
Posted on: Registering for a Dating Website
January 28, 2011 at 8:55 AMI probably should have said something like "dating websites have been around for awhile, and sites like Match.com do exactly this kind of matchmaking. I guess I'd equate 'mail-order brides' with something that's very specialized at best, and illegal at its possible worst".
Posted on: Switching Seats on a Plane
February 1, 2011 at 6:27 AMbeing a guy, I defer to others on whether showing is a good thing or not :-) I just make sure I don't say things like, "when is the baby due?" and then the woman says, "I'm not pregnant!" (and I almost did this once).