User Comments - licha
licha
Posted on: Hong Kong Visa Run
March 24, 2009, 01:57 PMinteresting elementary lesson . ah.. no pinyin from pete's saying today. i'm beginning to think that my gut feeling is right. pete is a religious,political monk disguise in a mandarin translator/teacher.
no.. coast of BC is to close to my home.
Posted on: How Long?
March 23, 2009, 11:25 PMdavidkaneda, t'ais trop apeurant
rjberki, i have always said that i'm not interested in participating or contributing to this community(chat room of regulars). all i'm trying to do is steal a few selected chunks of words, sentence structures (in pinyin-without paying for the premium upgrade) in order to develop a basic conversational fluency. a smart man like you should have figured that out by now. so far i'm progressing quite well with just the lessons. when mandarin becomes important to me i'll graduate to characters.
Posted on: How Long?
March 22, 2009, 02:56 AMbababardwan, don't patronize me i'm neither your buddy nor your mate. i speak and write french and english every day and can problably have a basic german conversation with Henning since i lived and work at Villeroy&Boch , Mettlach, Saarland for 2yrs. my mandarin is coming along quite well with basic subscription at this site and chineselearnonline.
if i thing i should learn mandarin from native speakers just like a toddler learns is native language(exposure and repetition) that's only my opinion. i do use MDBG when i'm studying i will eventually learn caracters but don't have the commitment nor the time now
i think it's hypocritical of you to pretend you are elementry and see you and changye chat all day/everyday at all levels with caracters.
are you using CPod for your personal chat room because you have nothing else to do? i don't care if you chat with your CPod buddy's 24hrs but if can learn a few add. chuck of words (along with the good job Ken&Jenny are doing) that's time save for me. i'm not on this site to kill time nor to contribute but to learn some spoken every day mandarin
pete is an over-rated teacher for beginners and does not come close to replacing Amber's approach and replys. she would always including pinyin and translation at newbie/ele levels.
Posted on: How Long?
March 21, 2009, 01:29 PMpete, i see you give a good example in newbie/ele lessons by including pinyin and translation. not very shīfu of you. t'ais un con
not that i really care, besides CPod you know i use another web site.
is bababardwan paid to blog all day for CPod???
Posted on: Tech Upgrades and Farming!
March 17, 2009, 10:41 PMoverdose of tech and non-native teachers at CPod
since our non-native,over rated translater/teacher as to double check most questions with Jiaojie and Connie why is he needed. i think the likes of Jiaojie should be in the forefront(not in background) to learn spoken mandarin.
Posted on: More News!
February 22, 2009, 06:49 PMseems my comments always immediately brings out calkins from under his rock.
calkins says 'How many tools are out there on the web for reading hanzi or rolling over the hanzi and quickly getting the pinyin? How many are there that provide an English translation?' many
start with those two
http://www.chineselearnonline.com/
http://www.rocketlanguages.com/chinese/
bababardwan: translation and pinyin in the elementary and newbie levels...
and i don't read all your comments i don't have the time. must be nice with all this time on your hand.
paulinurus : posting in bold is not intentional i think copying names on post bolds it automatically and i'm far from being pompous
Posted on: More News!
February 22, 2009, 01:25 PMdaizi my point from the start.it sure helps with supplementary vocab since i use basic only. i will not upgrade to premium(i do my own add. work) because of no extra time nor money
bababardwan your counter-point is very weak. 'no time to double check' a bit ironic since you and changye chat every day/ all day
jennyzhu my common sense tells me i should learn from native mandarin teachers ( both male and female) for hearing and speaking. why do i have the feeling that CPod is using to many none-native teachers
Posted on: February Update
February 04, 2009, 08:04 AMi gave it a go but i cannot go against my own reason. pete's poetry is a useless tool of spoken mandarin at newbie, elementry and intermediate level of which 3/4 of CPod subscribers are.
case in point, i have tried to translate on my own the idiom 'live free or die' ( not even close to poetry) and made a mess of it.
imagine Light485 takling on some poetry (in somewhat broken accent) on the street of beijing or in restaurant in chengdu during his trip > that will problably get him escorted to the nearest monastery.
John, you haven't told me what the consequences are for being on very thin ice as you have put it.
luckily we still have Ken and Jenny
Posted on: Chinese New Year News
January 28, 2009, 02:29 PMjohn i agree to more serious and thought-off criticism . silly or not every subscriber should have the right. on the other hand, i don't see what i have to lose (you and pete are the 'seller' here, not me) should it the other way around?
rjberki makes sense, i'll give it a shot
Posted on: Hong Kong Visa Run
March 25, 2009, 04:24 AM"The first thing I'd do is recognize Taiwan as a country" a separatist comment by staff member and everybody crawls back under their rocks. Matt_c and John where are you with your words of wisdom
Pete is free to express his opinion in Canada but he would be challenge
what a bunch of two-face, back room wee-zels CPod and this community is