User Comments - pretzellogic

Posted on: Experiencing Agricultural Life

this is one of the longest lessons i've seen in the cpod library.  Interesting.

Posted on: Future Plans

The quick answer is no. There's been plenty of discussion about that over the past few years, and many lessons. I'll give my take; likely others will chime in.

- Some of the early intermediates were pretty easy, and then some of the early intermediates were very challenging, almost what a upper intermediate lesson is now. It was probably that Cpod was trying to figure our what the lower and upper bounds were in lessons, then trying to figure out what the "intermediate" level was between those two boundaries.

- I think the strength of the intermediate lesson created in the past 6-12 months is that Cpod appears to have standardized around a format that makes an intermediate lesson consistent with prior lessons, so that an intermediate like me knows what to expect lesson over lesson:

- -paragraphs with no more than 3 sentences

- -minimal use of metaphors

- -no more than one or two chengyus

- -arguably no more than 15- 20 new words that haven't already been seen in other lessons.

Posted on: A Short Haircut

Well, I also cut my own hair, etc, etc...:-)

Posted on: A Short Haircut

devindraudt, this lesson doesn't answer all your questions, but its a start.

Posted on: A Short Haircut

My wife cuts my hair.  She's not a pro, but the job is competitively priced, and very convenient. 

Posted on: Cats Are Cool

I was taking John's statement about "We didn't produce a lesson for cat lovers when our audience is entirely dog-loving" to mean that cpod didn't previously create one. I guess you're pointing out that there was a lesson on cats.

Posted on: Four Uses of the Complement 起来 (qilai)

so you do not give Chinese names for free? :-(

Posted on: Cats Are Cool

I search pretty regularly for stuff that hasn't already had a lesson. I think its only interesting to myself that I didn't pick up on the fact that there wasnt' a cat lesson from cpod. Maybe you guys need a pet parakeet, hamster, chicken, parrot, snake, weasel, and alligator lesson :-)

Posted on: Cats Are Cool

After I had my cat altered, he hardly ever meowed. 

Posted on: Taxable Salary

tax evasion in probably an offense everywhere, but I know tax evasion is illegal in the US also. I am not a tax expert, but the methods described in the lesson to avoid taxes would not be allowed in the US. But of course, cpod is not our tax accountant, this lesson "is not to be considered tax advice, and we should consult one before we consider our filing situations" :-)