User Comments - sydcarten
sydcarten
Posted on: Office Policy: Internet
June 29, 2009 at 10:54 PMAll in all I enjoyed this lesson. I like a bit of a challenge and this format certainly gave me that.
But what I was less happy about was the following vocabulary:
许多 - 或 - 与 - 客户
These are all new to me and they DON'T appear in the PDF key vocabulary. Why is that?
Failing to have explanations for these terms has prevented me from being able to understand the text fully.
Posted on: Pregnancy Series 7: Choosing a Name for the Baby
June 19, 2009 at 1:13 AMI got here first.
In your face, Shelbyville, woo-hoo!
Posted on: Getting Nationalities Straight
June 13, 2009 at 11:31 PMI just looked up Indonesia in Babelfish and I got:
印度尼西亚 - yin4 du4 ni2 xi1ya4
Is there a common abbreviated way of saying this?
I can't imagine that many people would say in full:
你说不说印度尼西亚话?
I know for example that 澳大利亚 is usually abbreviated to 澳洲
Posted on: Dress Warmly
June 10, 2009 at 1:58 AMthanks
I think I'll stop knocking myself out on exercise 3 in the lessons.
Exercises 1 and 2 have always worked OK for me.
Posted on: What do you do?
June 10, 2009 at 12:31 AMAgain I don't know why I didn't get a perfect score (5/5) for the final exercise.
My answer seems to be correct.
And how could I get 4/5? If one answer is wrong then at least another must be also, because I am only choosing from the 5 answers that are provided.
Posted on: Saying Good-bye at a Tavern in Nanjing -- 金陵酒肆留别
June 9, 2009 at 10:14 PMAs a fairly new beginner I'm not ready for Mandarin at this level.
But I have been downloading all the Poems With Pete lessons, because I certainly intend being ready for them one day.
I confess I get a little fed up at times with scripted texts and dialogues written especially for learners, so I find the prospect of learning some 'real' examples of the language in use to be a very attractive one.
Posted on: Dress Warmly
June 9, 2009 at 9:53 PMThere seems to be a problem with the final exercise.
I tried it several times and couldn't do better than 3/6. My wife who is better at written Chinese than me couldn't do any better.
I suspect it has something to do with the fact that 3 of the 6 available answers are all the same character: 行
Posted on: Juiced!
June 9, 2009 at 8:33 AMMy wife doesn't like me eating durian. She says it makes the body "hot".
I still don't understand the Chinese concept of foods making your body either hot or cold.
Posted on: Are You Free?
June 30, 2009 at 1:32 AMYeah, too much color and stimulation here. We can't have that now, can we?
Dull it down a few notches, CP!