User Comments - pretzellogic

Posted on: Practicing Kung Fu

when referring to Kung Fu, I most often heard Karate, Martial Arts, Kung Fu and Wushu in that order back in the states. Actually, I heard Karate used most often, and it seemed most of the time to be used by non-practisioners of the art.

Posted on: Practicing Kung Fu

Outstanding! Next we have to have a lesson where the master takes the class through the 5 animals/5 elements.

Posted on: Considering an iPad

So, I assume that Chinesepod works on an iPad?

Posted on: Band Practice

So this is a college band? the physics department has their own band?  Maybe this is the philosophy major's band:-)

Posted on: Band Practice

Hopefully this is the start of a few more music lessons, with fantastic previously unused vocabulary.  Cpod rocks! or maybe they funk!

Posted on: Band Practice

cool lesson.  What are they, Parliament/Funkadelic or Metallica? Soundgarden? Alice in Chains? Men at Work?

Posted on: Ordering Pizza

there is a barbeque lesson, but I don't know how to say Texas. Although I could just put it into MDGB and get it that way...

Posted on: Dancing in Public

"...you will get served!"

You might want to explain that very American, very hip/trendy reference to the 1 or 2 foreigners that don't understand :-)

Posted on: A Visitor and Progress Tracking

FWIW, chengyus are not high frequency from where I sit. After living in Beijing for a 1.8 years, living in Lanzhou for 1 year, conversations with taxi drivers, and plenty of conversations with store people, the only time I've heard a chengyu is when I bring it up. I grant you that my spoken Chinese is flawed, and my listening comprehension about 20-40%, but I don't hear a lot of chengyu spouting Chinese people. Put me in the category that agrees with John and Cpod on this one.

Posted on: Leeching off the Parents

I totally agree!