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Posted on: Experiencing Agricultural Life
June 30, 2007 at 3:50 AMI meant to say there are limits to every method!
Posted on: Experiencing Agricultural Life
June 30, 2007 at 3:41 AMxiaohu Pimsleur has to be the worse of them all. The rate of speaking didn't get one second faster from the very first lesson to the last lesson! You didn't mention Living Language. And Vocabulearn was one of my very first. Over the years of listening, I know a sentence for just about any situation there is. It's an excellent one to expand your vocabulary!! ChinesePod was good for me to expand my vocabulary even more and probably accounts for an additional 10% of my listening comprehension of chinese radio bringing me to 60%. But as I found, there are limits to method!
Posted on: Experiencing Agricultural Life
June 30, 2007 at 2:42 AMNice to see everybody is at their comfort level!!! It's just like at the start of every chinese class, the teacher asks what we expect to get out of her class. Everybody has different goals. For those that didn't get the Japanesepod connection, You don't get a transcript of the mp3 files with the basic plan. You must have the premium subscription to get that. That makes JapanesePod quite useless. I don't think it's worth paying $360 just to get the transcript, which is all that I would need. The same thing is going to happen here very soon!!!
Posted on: Experiencing Agricultural Life
June 29, 2007 at 10:35 PMFurthermore, I never asked that any of the levels be compromised from what ever they are now. More than once I advocated another category which I like to call "Advanced for Newbies" This would be the category that would provide the missing link to higher learning. I mentioned once before that I bought a Spanish language course that had recordings of live interviews, and radio news items. Then these were explained in plain english!!! I would like somebody to explain to me why this isn't a good idea! For me that was the magic that helped me understand what I heard on Spanish radio. I don't see any other way!!!
Posted on: Experiencing Agricultural Life
June 29, 2007 at 10:21 PMxiaohu I already figured out how this place works. Every level is designed to be the comfort level for those that are already at that level. No attempt is made to help somebody get past their comfort level. This appears to be the business model that cpod adopted and nothing is going to change that
Posted on: Experiencing Agricultural Life
June 29, 2007 at 11:04 AMJohn It almost looks like there is an effort to make cpod just as useless as Japanesepod101. It does look like the pdf files days are numbered!!! Unless one subscribes to the Premimium!!!
Posted on: Experiencing Agricultural Life
June 29, 2007 at 10:48 AMI suppose nobody signed any agreement as to what we get for whatever service we subscribed to. As much as I like to listen to John & Jenny, it doesn't make much sense if the explanation is given in chinese, it may as well be given in Greek! I don't know Greek! You could give it in French or Spanish though!! That would be more useful to me!
Posted on: Experiencing Agricultural Life
June 29, 2007 at 3:40 AMHow about the text version of the PDF file so we don't have to download the pdf version first. It's usually much smaller in size, and more useful in being able to copy & paste from which you can't do with a pdf file. What happened to the short mp3 version?
Posted on: Resisting Relocation
June 28, 2007 at 4:01 AMI might add that the story was the same from all the guys I met from 4 different schools that had chinese wives. This is more than a coincidence. This one in particular guy is Vietnamese, has a Taiwanese wife. My teacher is Taiwanese, we often went to a Taiwanese restaurant to eat 'chou dofou' He often told me that if his wife would speak to him in Mandarin, he would certainly be fluent by now! To me this is definitely worthy of analysis!!
Posted on: Experiencing Agricultural Life
June 30, 2007 at 4:08 AMAZERDocMom! Is that a picture of you??? You certainly look much younger than 41! I also think Kitty looks very pretty. Too bad there is some bad historical blood around here. It must have been going on for some time. Lets see if I get this right. Kenny can call Jenny - Johnny. So why can't Kitty call John - Johnny??!!! Or is there something in chinese that no one is going to explain in plain english??