User Comments - translatejake
translatejake
Posted on: COVID-19, Rumors and Beer
May 14, 2020, 10:18 PMWhen Michelle says "狗口里吐不出象牙" at about 8:00.
Posted on: 吃惊，惊讶，惊人，惊喜
May 14, 2020, 12:32 AMYes.. starting every lesson with 22 seconds of music is a bit much. I have a year subscription. That's 8030 seconds a year, of the same intro song.
A "hello, welcome to chinesepod" like the Fiona was just right.
Posted on: COVID-19, Rumors and Beer
May 14, 2020, 12:21 AMThat voiceover was strange.
Posted on: Chengyu Series - Five Flowers and Eight Doors
April 27, 2020, 10:11 PMHow about this?... 好莱坞是个五光十色的世界。
Posted on: International Women’s Day: 2020 China Edition
March 24, 2020, 12:28 AMWow, nice performance!
Posted on: Popular Brand Names
April 26, 2019, 04:01 AMGot it. Thanks. I thought it was under settings.
Posted on: Popular Brand Names
April 21, 2019, 06:57 AMI have searched all over the site for settings to help me stop getting email notifications every time this lesson is commented on. I couldn't even delete this comment. Please help. I don't want to keep getting notifications.
Posted on: Popular Brand Names
April 02, 2019, 07:31 AMBrad and Angelina are not a couple 
. They divorced 3 years ago....
Posted on: Booking a Flight Over The Phone
September 11, 2015, 07:57 PMI have a lot of Chinese associates, and sending them a voice note of Fiona speakingsurely took less time than it took you to write that paragraph. If that's what you define great lengths as, but hey, you're a self proclaimed Mandarin accent expert. I don't know Fiona, I don't even know how she would define her own accent, and my ear is only good enough to detect vast regional accents. But the question was not about where she's from, it was about if she's a native speaker. There are likely 200+ worldwide native accents for dialect speakers when they speak Mandarin. When I'm abroad for long periods, my family tells me my accent is a bit off. But that doesn't mean I'm not a native English speaker, or that I don't get my original accent back within a few days of being home. When sent the recording, other native mandarin speakers didn't say, she sounds something like a foreigner who learned Chinese to a high level with Taiwanese influence etc, they said, she's certainly native Taiwanese. You said she speaks well, but not like a native. To YOU she has a foreign accent, but not to Taiwanese. I'm going to stick with the opinion of that group of native Mandarin speakers over yours. Peace.
Posted on: 吃惊，惊讶，惊人，惊喜
May 14, 2020, 10:23 PMNothing against the music, or the lesson or the hosts. But now it's much better. Thanks.