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suburbanite
Posted on: Explosion
May 20, 2009 at 1:38 PMForgive me if I've totally missed something, but it seems that the dialogue in the full lesson audio does not match the dialogue on the lesson page or the exchange Ken and Jenny translated/explained.
Posted on: Pain and Suffering 伤心, 难受，郁闷 ,不爽，难过
May 11, 2009 at 2:14 PMLight --Thansk for the pdf!
Posted on: Counting Coins
May 3, 2009 at 7:45 PMSpeaking of counting money, here is a poem to see how <a href="http://www.fi.edu/pieces/knox/smart.htm">smart</a> we can be.
Posted on: Do You Want a Map?
April 29, 2009 at 2:07 PMNice lesson. The salesman was a good listening test.
Earth-diagram is easy to remember.
Q: 地铁 (subway) is earth iron. Is this more of a common way or usage? I would expect subway to be something like "underground train" rather than earth iron.
Posted on: Renting a Bike
April 27, 2009 at 3:16 PMHow do we say the following:
electric bicycle? 电行车 (dian4 hong2 che1)？
folding bicycle? (the Dahon bikes that fold up)
Posted on: Rise and Shine!
April 16, 2009 at 3:44 AMMy threat was having to walk ~ a mile uphill to school. [not uphill both ways!]
Posted on: Guilin Mifen
April 14, 2009 at 6:48 AMNicely Done Gentlemen!
Posted on: Can You Use Chopsticks?
March 28, 2009 at 5:26 PMZhenlijiang
I saw one video that explained that using the right hand is traditional. I don't know. I did meet someone that is left-handed and she uses her left hand to eat.
It appears to be an etiquette point. Some cultures it is truly considered rude to eat with your left hand.
** side note: If there is something printed on the chopsticks, the right or left hand orientation becomes important. (for example: http://www.everythingintheuniv.com/chopsticks.htm search for left-handed.)
Posted on: Can You Use Chopsticks?
March 28, 2009 at 5:17 AMRJ -- is this what you were thinking of?
(link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkV2oIrq_Rc&feature=channel_page)
Posted on: Explosion
May 21, 2009 at 12:59 AMMatt -- I got an email announcing the lesson. It seems like that system is not running well. Lately I've been getting the mail ahead of the official publish date. Prior (the last month or two) they were often days after the lesson.