User Comments - pretzellogic

Posted on: What does she look like?

Maybe that was Cosmo's point; that "Hi my name is slim shady" isn't really a pickup line from a player (too bad Tucker Max isn't trying to learn Chinese on cpod), but something from a decent dude.

Not sure what to make of your statement that Cosmo/Glamour is not reaching out for females like you....

Posted on: What does she look like?

I think I read in Cosmopolitan or Glamour (some really funny magazines if you ask me. I love getting insight into what women tell/show each other), something like, "Hi, my name is ....." and a friendly handshake.

Posted on: Skincare: Moisturizing Cream

Oh, claudielo, I actually am on a quest for new words that we've never had lessons for before. I don't recall that we actually had a lesson on lotion, which is why you're having to deal with me discussing an elementary level lesson.

And despite Alitalia's difficulties, they have pretty livery ;-)

Posted on: Skincare: Moisturizing Cream

And I thought I was the only one that knew Alitalia had some financial challenges ;-)

I have daily reminders of how bad my Chinese is. The problem for me with dictionaries is

1) that they do not also usually tell you the measure word for the noun in question

2) the usual temptation when you do know a word (say, lotion), is to ask for it the same way you ask for something in English. This is a receipe for being laughed at, and I am also laughed at enough on a daily basis by my bad tones without adding further humiliation by asking for something the wrong way (like for example, us Americans say, "I have a flat tire". This is not what the Chinese say.

3) I flew Continental yesterday. A pretty darn good airline that hopefully will improve United, instead of United ruining Continental.

Posted on: What does she look like?

Wouldn't a useful pickup line lesson be a lesson with pickup lines that work? :-)

Posted on: Skincare: Moisturizing Cream

I've needed this lesson for a long time.  Now just need a lesson requesting Chap Stick.

Posted on: What does she look like?

The Pickup Artist

http://chinesepod.com/lessons/the-pickup-artist

I guess my question would have been are these real pickup lines, but I'm sure this question has already been addressed....

Posted on: Night Cat

Future vocabulary suggestion: there isn't really a good place to put this unless I create a new discussion thread for it, or dig up an existing thread deep from the thread discussion bowels.  But it would be nice for future lessons to indicate on the vocabulary tab for lessons what vocabulary words are nouns, verbs, and more importantly, which of these nouns and verbs can be used as adjectives and adverbs. A suggested implementation might be adding a column (for future lessons only) that just says "v, adv" for the word xiǎngtōng (to realize, to figure it out).

Posted on: A Member of the 'Moonlight Clan'

yeah, I remember Moonlighting also..... too bad it ended the way it did.

Posted on: A Member of the 'Moonlight Clan'

interesting topic for a lesson.  I'm sure there are plenty of people living hand-to-mouth across China, as there are in the rest of the world. I didn't know they were referred to as the moonlight clan. They don't have a name for this as far as I know in the US, but I haven't really searched.