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si1teng2
Posted on: Yu Gong Festival 愚公节
April 3, 2015 at 1:05 PM哈哈，我也是愚人！问自己”为什么从来没听说过这个节日？” 而且现在得把好多袋土退回商店。
Posted on: That's Not Literature!
March 20, 2015 at 8:18 PMThank you! I'm falling behind, but hope to get to this lesson soon!
Posted on: The Many Meanings of 免:未免,以免,难免,免不了[Video]
March 20, 2015 at 8:07 PM精彩优秀的课！解释得非常非常清楚！连你们的表现也让我听得懂。感谢你们的辛苦！
Posted on: Let Me Speak to a Human Being
March 18, 2015 at 9:12 PM恐怕机器人会毁灭人类，接管世界。Then they can all drive each other insane on the telephone! :)
Posted on: Rebooking a Dentist Appointment
March 12, 2015 at 12:38 PMMy natural tendency would be to want to begin the conversation with an apology, as I might in English: "I'm really sorry, but I forgot about my appointment today." "对不起，我完全忘了。。。“ Would that sound normal or weird in Chinese?
Posted on: Entire/Whole: 整 (zhěng) vs 全 (quán) [Video/Audio]
March 7, 2015 at 4:37 PM(By the way, the 'Edit' function for comments is terrible! It loses all formatting, and removes spacing between paragraphs and even words! I hope someone can fix that.)
Posted on: Entire/Whole: 整 (zhěng) vs 全 (quán) [Video/Audio]
March 7, 2015 at 4:25 PMI'd only ever seen 整 with 个, so seeing it with other measure words was enlightening. I also get the basic grammatical difference between 整 and 全.
But... on the whole, the lesson was too short and left me with too many questions. (Sorry!) For example, both 整个城市 and 全市 were explained as meaning "the whole city" (the first as a 'unit', the second as an 'entirety'). Is this a purely grammatical difference? Is the difference just a stylistic nuance? Or is there a significant change in meaning? If so, I can't see it!
You gave complete sentences for 整 but not for 全. If you reconstructed the same sentences with 全, explaining whether the differences are grammatical, stylistic, or a change in meaning (so that the sentences are not interchangeable), that would have been really helpful!
Lastly, I remember seeing some video lessons with Gwilym. I think interactions between you two would be particularly good for Qing Wen type lessons. I always appreciate his perspective as a Chinese language learner. I'm sure his questions would often overlap with mine!
Posted on: 猜灯谜
March 6, 2015 at 4:24 PM谢谢，Constance. 第一题灯谜我猜对了：我的意思是“何”字里面的武器就是‘丁’。
可惜，第三题却猜错了。我想的是：“不怕一万，只怕万一”，这个俗语。
“万无一失”这个成语很有意思。可是，那个屋子为什么锁得那么安全？里面有什么可怕的魔怪？
好玩的活动！
Posted on: Buying a Guard Dog
March 4, 2015 at 10:50 PM我的弟弟曾经有过芬兰拉普猎犬。我听说哈士奇需要常常带出去散步：一天两次，一次一个多小时。是真的吗？ Amazing lesson! Dialogue beautifully produced and acted. Even though there was no video, it was somehow so vivid. So much in it, butI never lost an intuitive sense of what was going on. I've always loved CPod, but in my opinion, this new team has taken it to another plane of language-teaching brilliance! Thank you!
Posted on: Saying You're Angry: 生气
April 20, 2015 at 2:57 PMLoki 总是不乖，让Hulk非常生气。永远不会成为朋友。
Thank you for this clarification! "X 生 Y 的气" has always confused me. I shall studiously try to forget whose 气 it is, and imagine who is 生-ing it instead. So, would the Hulk say:
《别让我生气！生气的时候，你不会喜欢我。》
And could Loki say: 《对不起,绿绿！别生我的气。》
Do those constructions work?