User Comments - ryanchild
ryanchild
Posted on: Pregnancy Series 9: Here Comes the Baby!
August 10, 2009 at 8:04 PM老師們,poddies,
我想問你們一下,這個句子裡: 「你答應我要陪我進產房
的」可不可以把「是」加在「你」後面? 因為我們常常學習「你是。。。的」的語法.
謝謝!
抱歉我的繁體字...
Posted on: Do You Know That Girl?
August 10, 2009 at 2:27 PMha! that was my first reaction too. after seeing the picture and then reading the lesson description, i was a bit taken aback.
Posted on: Amusement Park
August 3, 2009 at 3:36 AMJanfusun Fancyworld (劍湖山世界) in Taiwan is another 游樂園...
I took this photo of their ominous-looking 摩天輪...
...I don't think it was running that day due to the weather, and if it was I might have been too much of a 膽小鬼 to ride.
Posted on: Manila
July 28, 2009 at 3:06 AMIs 建築 / 建築物 one of those words that has different tones in the south / Taiwan?
yahoo.com.tw's dictionary has jiànzhú instead of jiànzhù.
帆船: fánchuán ; 質地: zhídì, to list just a couple, also seem to have different tones in the south & in Taiwan. Or maybe just Taiwan?
而且我用bopomofo輸入法打"建築"的漢字的時候,如果我打兩個字都第四聲就打不出來.要打第四和第二聲.
Posted on: Language Power Struggle
August 27, 2008 at 12:20 PMI, too, have to laugh when I hear "Oh...I think Chinese is very difficult for you." Do they teach Chinese students this phrase in school? I've heard it before too. I realize it's not intended as an insult but I'm always kind of shocked when I hear it in the middle of a friendly dialogue. I'm impressed by the writers' especially keen insight into a foreigner's perspective and great sense of humor.
Also, what happened to the "Share" link on the left hand side of this page? I used to use it to post my favorite lessons to facebook
Posted on: Fortunate Cookies
July 31, 2008 at 1:20 AMAnd i have an even firmer belief that flash cards fortune cookies is a great idea. But I seem to be alone in my thinking on both accounts.
Jenny-
You are not alone! Most fortune cookies have a "Learn Chinese" section on the back of the fortune. Of course the problem is that your average American Chinese takeout customer won't have a clue how to pronounce the word they just learned, even if it is spelled in Hanyu Pinyin and not Wade-Giles or some pinyin variant.
Posted on: Lesson
July 20, 2008 at 7:39 PMcorrect, Amazon S3 has been down for the last few hours...many sites have been affected
guess that means it's time to review old lessons!
Posted on: Sailing
November 26, 2007 at 5:56 AMHi everyone, I'm an avid listener, but usually just lurk around the lesson discussions ...this is my first post and I just wanted to say that I really love ChinesePod. You guys rock. My Taiwanese girlfriend heard this podcast and was confused, saying "fan1 chuan2" means to overturn a boat, and that the correct pronunciation is "fan2 chuan2". We got a good laugh over the idea of a boat overturning competition. I looked up 帆船 in cedict and the yahoo.com.tw 字典 and sure enough I got "fan2 chuan2" in both cases. I've come across many differences in spoken mandarin in Taiwan versus at ChinesePod but I'm really curious about this one. Thanks
Posted on: SKRITTER!!!
August 16, 2009 at 1:51 AMbut Skritter uses SRS! quick pull the plug!
sorry john ;)