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Posted on: Farewell, Sweet Pete
September 14, 2009, 05:49 PM

I almost never have time to comment here, and seem always to hear the episodes too late to be in the main comment swoosh, but I have to chime in:

FAREWELL PETE!

It has REALLY been fun and enlightening to have you at Chinesepod throughout the year.

At almost the same time as PWP ended, I found a couple of hand written Tang poems on the pathway to work, which made me go back and learn all the poems by heart. 

Thanks Pete for the wonderful inspiration!

Posted on: Tomb Sweeping Festival -- 清明
April 21, 2009, 05:54 AM

Strangely enough, I found this note:

清明

on my way to work in Lund, Sweden. I take this as a sign that I should hook up with this channel again.

Posted on: Simple Electrical Stuff
February 11, 2009, 11:21 AM

Is this subtly suppose to relate to Valentines day?

Posted on: Talking with Numbers
February 03, 2009, 09:02 AM

What about 250==idiot? What does it come from?

Some theories, not confirmed here

Do you have any explanation?

Posted on: The Person Component
December 18, 2008, 05:17 PM

You should have taken a more complex radical from the start, like 钅, 犭 or 纟. Now it looked like some high school students doing a project called "REN2".

As most other said: You can do WAY MUCH better than this.

Posted on: Asking for Leave
November 13, 2008, 02:56 PM

In Sweden we have 25 mandatory days that we get off. (Paid vacation). 

In many companies nowadays, people have 30 days.

Posted on: Farm Animals
September 25, 2008, 01:56 PM

@changye: Thanks. Very informative as usual.

Posted on: Farm Animals
September 25, 2008, 11:58 AM

I have to rephrase that question a little bit; since I found a clue in wenlin:  母 female (of animals);

Does that mean that I can speak of 母牛 and 母鸡?

And the male counterpart?

Posted on: Farm Animals
September 25, 2008, 07:32 AM

Even if I adore the contextual minimalism of chinese, during this lesson I came to think of how to differentiate between animal genders.

How would you say e.g. 'ox' in relation to 'cow', 'cock' in relation to 'hen'?

is it simply 男牛,女牛, 男鸡, 女鸡 ?

 

 

Posted on: Don't Never Say Never
September 22, 2008, 03:01 PM

What would be the pattern for commenting on a thing that you have done say once, but never again?

"I once tasted 榴莲 and I will never taste it again."