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tingtingstaiwan
Posted on: Making the Ordinary Life Seem Romantic Part 1
June 13, 2018, 03:02 AMPronunciation and audio quality are really clear, thank you!!!
Just one thing - the dialogue section is missing the first sentence. It starts with:
但它之所以成為現代人不可或缺的生活方式，也是因為它有詩意的一面，比如朋友圈裡的互相走訪
...but there is a sentence before this which I can't see yet in the dialogue tab.
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婷婷
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Posted on: The New Coworker
June 13, 2018, 02:57 AMGreat lesson idea, good team! 加油！
I agree with some other comments and hope that the constructive criticism will help future lessons be even better.
1) Camera angle changes are super distracting, no need to do this - and bonus for CP is that not changing the angle will mean less editing which means you can release more lessons more quickly, right?
2) Too much English in this for an intermediate lesson. The new vocab and grammar are right for an intermediate level, but intermediate CP learners are expecting that the person playing the native speaker (that would be Jenny here) will speak 100% Chinese. Intermediate learners need this. We don't want to hear Jenny saying a sentence that is half English and half Chinese, it doesn't help our comprehension.
I'm looking forward to new lessons and hope to be using CP for many more years. Also thanks for not wearing your PJs to work - I love Fiona but sometimes I was like dude ... I know Taiwan is hot but there are other clothing choices ...
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婷婷
Posted on: Describing Weird Textures
October 12, 2017, 03:42 AM黏 (nian2) - adjective (describing word) - I don't think you could use in the example sentence you've provided since it's not a verb.
粘 (zhan1) - different but similar character - verb (doing word)
Another verb for "stick" that I hear a lot in Taiwan is 貼 (tie1) - can this be used interchangeably with 粘 (zhan1)??
Posted on: Describing Weird Textures
October 12, 2017, 03:36 AMQing wen lessons don't have those extras :-)
Posted on: The Benefits of Reading ft Mandarin Companion
August 15, 2017, 03:37 AMAs far as I can tell, all the titles are available in both simplified and traditional Chinese, in both e-book and paperback form. At least for all the ones I have checked.
If you don't have an e-reader, that's ok, you can buy the Kindle version and use the free Kindle app to read it. No need to buy a Kindle to do this.
Posted on: Is Buying Better Than Renting?
August 15, 2017, 03:16 AMlittlesasaka, maybe it's not what you are after, but if you search using the term "renting" around 9 lessons related to real estate will pop up. These have been so helpful for me!
Posted on: How to Use 了: Action Complete
March 05, 2017, 02:07 AMHaha good point robertschmidt! Don't get started on the Taiwanese (very cute and often incorrect) use of 有 in questions like these! I love these structures because they make my life easy as a language learner (often I can just answer questions with 有, much simpler!) - but I felt very sorry for my Taiwanese friend who just became a qualified Chinese language teacher. They beat all that 有沒有 stuff out of her!
I agree with you that it's really important for those living in Taiwan to realise that Taiwanese will use this structure all the time. It's also important to realise that it might not fly so well in China!
Posted on: How to Use 了: Emphasis
February 25, 2017, 10:56 AMI was thinking the same thing about that last sentence.
The 的 at the end for emphasis: would that possibly be occuring when emphasising with the shi...de structure (but the shi has been omitted because, you know, it's Mandarin, let's make things more complicated by omitting something...)? I was taught this structure is used specifically to emphasise a detail about something that has happened before (maybe it has other uses too) - does anyone know off the top of their head where we can find a Chinesepod lesson that deals with the shi...de structure?
Posted on: Star Trek
November 30, 2016, 01:44 AMDo these really exist? I would also really like to get my hands on them.
Posted on: How to Really Exaggerate Your Chinese
November 21, 2018, 09:29 AMI love this lesson so much!
When you said 帥暈我了, I heard 帥孕我了
Hehe :-)