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sebire
Posted on: Seeing off an Old Friend 渭城曲
January 28, 2009 at 9:24 AMPete, no need to apologise. It's only a small thought. Keep up the good work!
Posted on: Seeing off an Old Friend 渭城曲
January 28, 2009 at 1:21 AMHey Pete, as I am not the biggest poetry fan in the world, I was waiting to see how the shows panned out, but thankfully it seems that they are not going to bring me back to the horrors of English Lit lessons at school! I found the historical and general background information about the poets really interesting, so if you're planning to make the shows a bit longer, I'm all for hearing a little more on that kind of stuff.
One minor thing though, is there any chance of speaking a tiny fraction more slowly? I think I have got used to listening to BBC radio speed.
Posted on: Gong Xi Fa Cai!
January 28, 2009 at 12:53 AMBababardwan, don't be silly, baseball (棒球 bàngqiú) is a completely nonsensical sport. I watched most of an entire game completely not understanding anything until we waved over a helpful American to explain to us how it wasn't rounders ( 跑柱式棒球 pǎo zhù shì bàngqiú). Cricket (板球 bǎnqiú) makes far more sense :D
Bring on the Ashes! (阿什杯 ā shén bēi)
Posted on: Gong Xi Fa Cai!
January 27, 2009 at 12:52 AM新年快了！Enjoy the holidays.
Like the lesson picture, some kind of cool paper cutout thing?
Posted on: The Final Show
January 10, 2009 at 12:21 PMAmber, have fun in New York!
Posted on: Chinese Hospitality and Finding Vegetarian Food
December 26, 2008 at 11:04 PMOh no! Well, good luck with everything, Amber. The shows have been great - informative and entertaining. Cpod won't quite be the same again!
Posted on: The Person Component
December 26, 2008 at 8:44 PMThat makes a lot more sense to me, actually. I learnt a whole bunch of body vocab recently (脸，腿， 肩膀，脚 etc) and was wondering why 月 kept turning up. It makes far more sense as 肉!
Posted on: The Person Component
December 26, 2008 at 8:10 PMFrank, am definitely going to remember how to write 胖 now :D
Posted on: Chinese Hospitality and Finding Vegetarian Food
December 26, 2008 at 6:02 PMWell, it is Christmas, and I guess it is something like 2 am in China at the moment, so I suppose we'll find out in the morning.
Come back Amber (and Clay!)
Posted on: Gong Xi Fa Cai!
January 28, 2009 at 3:06 PMRJ, apparently I went along to the worst game of the season, which is probably why I couldn't work out what was going on. Also, the rules for scoring runs is different in rounders, and I didn't realise that an innings was over when three people got out, so was constantly bemused by the teams swapping over so often.
Closest thing cricket has to baseball is 20/20, which is just a slog-fest with loud music.
I read recently that Americans used to play cricket. Apparently in 1751, the New Yorkers beat the Londeners by 87 runs (oh the shame!)
bababardwan, I've been trying to find out if there is a chinese word for "googly", but haven't spotted it yet. Probably turn out to be gu ge li or something!