User Comments - teemunford
teemunford
Posted on: 聂隐娘 "The Assassin"
January 11, 2016, 06:50 PMFantastic you've got this lesson! I haven't listened to the lesson yet but saw The Assassin at the Bath Film Festival in December and loved it though was thoroughly confused by the plot! (There were English subtitles, of course) When I checked it on Chinese Wikipedia I saw that some actresses played two roles so that explained some of my confusion...
Posted on: Different Uses of 够 gòu
May 30, 2015, 03:15 AMFantastic lesson! Think I've got the hang of it now. 谢谢你们！
Posted on: An Introduction!
April 19, 2010, 06:41 PMCongratulations, Chinesepod, great idea to do Shanghainese -- it promises to be a good series and I'm really looking forward to the lessons. Some Cantonese would be fun too!
Posted on: This Week's Lessons and Introducing Sarah
November 14, 2008, 06:33 PMRe. Wuhu -- I remember being stuck there with a group of students when we were living in Nanjing in the late 1970s and travelling around China. It was, unfortunately, such a nothing town that it became a by-word among us for the worst place on the planet. Glad to hear it's improved!
Did you know it features in a Marx brothers' film (can't even remember the name) where they're flying over China and spot Wu Hu -- they wave from the aeroplane and called out Wu hu! Wu Hu! Hollywood humour has obviously improved since then.
Posted on: Play this Game to Learn Chinese Word Order
May 28, 2016, 07:11 AMFabulous lesson! Great game -- I'm going to adapt it for my school students, they'll love it.
One game I've played with school students that practises the where/with what pattern is Cluedo. I've tweaked the board game so it has slightly more relevant vocabulary (they don't really need to know how to say 'in the conservatory with the candlestick' so I've based the board in a school setting and the formula they have to say is
我认为白太太［or a varient on the characters' names] 在礼堂 ［or other rooms in a school] 用铅笔 ［or other pencil case items] 杀死了校长。
They enjoy it and it really gets that sentence pattern embedded.