Hey guys!
Great lesson - I definitely like how this lesson was more advanced and complex than normal eles, since I am still struggling in that great sea between ele and intermeditiate (although I can see land now!).
I do have to say though - I was in the same position where I was totally lost in the Intermediate section, even though elementary was far too easy. I still cant do the fully Chinese stuff, but yeah you really need to listen carefully to each lesson and replay it several times before you get over the 'hump' in terms of listening. It takes a lot of hard drilling to be honest - but its worth it to totally understand the Tragedy of Zhang Liang and Lili .
The problem with the intermediates I have is that it takes time to really understand what Jenny is saying... it took me two months to finally get what 'de ba' exactly means (although I kinda could guess it from context). I still think it'll be worth publishing even just one transcript of a lesson of what Jenny says, so that some of us can finally satisfy our curiosity over certain phrases!
But keep up the good work ChinesePod - I like how you're all really involved with the comments now ;)
Posted on: Traveling around China
May 1, 2007 at 4:12 AMHey guys! Great lesson - I definitely like how this lesson was more advanced and complex than normal eles, since I am still struggling in that great sea between ele and intermeditiate (although I can see land now!). I do have to say though - I was in the same position where I was totally lost in the Intermediate section, even though elementary was far too easy. I still cant do the fully Chinese stuff, but yeah you really need to listen carefully to each lesson and replay it several times before you get over the 'hump' in terms of listening. It takes a lot of hard drilling to be honest - but its worth it to totally understand the Tragedy of Zhang Liang and Lili . The problem with the intermediates I have is that it takes time to really understand what Jenny is saying... it took me two months to finally get what 'de ba' exactly means (although I kinda could guess it from context). I still think it'll be worth publishing even just one transcript of a lesson of what Jenny says, so that some of us can finally satisfy our curiosity over certain phrases! But keep up the good work ChinesePod - I like how you're all really involved with the comments now ;)