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yaming8808
Posted on: Gymnastics
June 21, 2011 at 11:26 PMWhy is piàoliang translated as impressive in the dialogue? And shouldn't hěn be translated with yōuměi two statements later? In the expansion why is fēicháng omitted as was hěn, especially since fēicháng seems even more emphatic than hěn? Why not give the next-to-last expansion as "Since becoming six, she has practiced gymnastics"? This cuts it down to 7 words from 9.
Posted on: Describing Athletes
June 21, 2011 at 8:16 PMZhèli jiù shàng zài yaming8808 lǐ wèi 'dèi' yīnggāi shì 'děi'.
Posted on: I don't smoke
June 21, 2011 at 7:34 PMThanks for this tip. It just shows it pays to check back some times on a lesson.
Posted on: I don't smoke
June 21, 2011 at 7:32 PMWe all do and we all get it.
Posted on: Broken Pipe
June 21, 2011 at 7:21 PMXièxie nǐ, Marlon0511. Zuótiān zhōngxún zǒu le. Jīntiān wǒ zǒu le hé xiàxún lái le! Yùnqi hǎo!
Posted on: Broken Pipe
June 21, 2011 at 7:11 PMXièxie nǐ, Jenny. That question had been lurking in my unconscious mind for over a year. So it has nothing to do with zhàopiānr's R, or the Běijīng accent. That's a rhetorical statement. Btw, it's fourth for 4th, just another
English phonetic-spelling anomaly to drive you shénjīngbìng!
Posted on: Athlete Injuries
June 21, 2011 at 6:39 PMAlmost 4 years down the road, kxikxao, and Chinesepod still hasn't fixed the
2 errors you note. Perhaps they haven't read your comment or else it's technically difficult or even impossible or whatever.
Posted on: Yang Jie's Diary: Date with a Nerd
June 21, 2011 at 5:15 PMRight at the start of the dialogue I notice the speaker runs together the pronunciation of 'jiù' and 'yào' to something like 'jào'. This seems to happen in other contexts and with other words. Could you possibly have an Elementary lesson about such occurrences in general, along with specific instances, in order to help students be ready for them when they come up? Thank you.
Posted on: Describing Athletes
June 21, 2011 at 3:51 PMExpansion shísì hào fānyì yīnggāi shì "The economy here is not too developed". Wǒ dèi zhǎodào zhōngwén cí wèi 'expansion'!
Posted on: Gymnastics
June 21, 2011 at 11:35 PMIs the reason 'liàn' occurs twice in the Mandarin for "She has practiced calligraphy for a long time" because the Mandarin sentence
is really saying "She practices calligraphy and has practiced for a long time", while saying this in English might seem redundant?