User Comments - wildyaks
wildyaks
Posted on: Chinese New Year News
January 25, 2009, 01:01 PM新年快乐，万事如意!
Posted on: The Final Show
January 20, 2009, 05:16 AMDear Amber,
After months away from Cpod I came in today to see what 's new and see who's around these days and if I should sign up again for a while...
...and the first thing I here is that you have left! What a loss to Cpod and the community. I enjoyed listening to your show and enjoyed getting to know you a little bit throught the podcast.
All the best for your life in New York. May it be every bit as good as you hope it to be and even better!
Posted on: Cosmetic Surgery and Mooncakes
September 13, 2008, 04:18 AMSo, considering that Chinese people really do not like mooncakes that much, should I bring a box when I go to visit my Chinese colleague, who invited us for lunch to celebrate the mid-autumn-festival?
Posted on: I Want This
August 18, 2008, 08:23 PM@polyglotwannabe
Swiss German, actually. My guess why Frenchpod is not working well for me, is because I learnt French through the German medium way back when I went to school. And now, I find English distracting... Funny, that it should be so.
I used to be fairly fluent in Italian... Looking forward to trying out Italianpod. Life is just a wee bit too busy just now...
Posted on: I Want This
August 16, 2008, 03:42 PMI just read through this thread and I feel for qiren. (BTW,Licha08's remark is totally off the mark. "go to frenchpod" Ha! Qiren can go as a teacher...) He/she sounds like an interesting, motivated person.
A while ago, I actually checked out frenchpod, since if I want to return to Europe seriously I may have to refresh my French. However, the funny thing was, that while I love Chinesepod and enjoy the banter in English, and actually appreciate explanations given in English, the very same thing really annoys me in Frenchpod. And it's not that I don't need explanations in a language I understand. But it seems that to learn French through English won't work for me. It's gotta be French-French, or maybe through some help in German... Funny thing.
I tried Spanishpod and had no problem with the English (I never learnt Spanish before). I have yet to try Italianpod. I may not like it very much, either...
Posted on: Aren't you.... （不是.... 吗）
May 29, 2008, 02:06 PMThat's exactly the sentence structure they are trying to teach in this QW:
不是 + verb + object (or whatever) + 吗?
It means a different thing from, say, 你没去北京吗? (You didn't go to Beijing?)
It implies the "Weren't you supposed to... aren't you expected to ...
Posted on: Billiards
May 29, 2008, 01:55 PMmaybe we should all try to calm down, practice 流瑜伽 (flow yoga) or something, until the bugs are fixed and we can resume learning Chinese...
Posted on: Aren't you.... （不是.... 吗）
May 28, 2008, 10:22 AMrjberki, 你为什么绑架了sparechange的龟吗 ?你不是喜欢它吗? 它不是会喜欢的吗?
I wonder if that is correct Chinese here... I wanted to say "Don't you like it (the turtle)? Isn't it (the turtle) likable?"
Posted on: Aren't you.... （不是.... 吗）
May 28, 2008, 10:14 AMWow, just used the "edit your comment" thingy the first time. It works!
Posted on: Preferences and Druthers
April 08, 2011, 12:46 PMThe other day I walked home listening to this Qingwen and enjoying it. I have been gone from China and Chinesepod for over two years. Since I am planning a trip back to my old home in China this summer, I signed up again with Chinesepod for a few months. - It's like meeting old friends... Listening to Qingwen made me smile, I even laughed out loud a few times and drew stares from people around me.
It's nice to be back! It's nice to realize that even though I have forgotten a lot, I can still follow upper intermediate lessons.