User Comments - yeroca
yeroca
Posted on: Godzilla in Shanghai
September 27, 2007 at 6:22 PMI am enjoying the drama in these recent Chinesepod lessons. You guys are doing a great job with sound effects and acting. I also like the idea of continuing story lines. Kind of like a soap opera (though I never watch those) you don't really have to know any context to listen, and you can pick up anywhere along, but gives the long-term poddies some extra fun.
Posted on: Olympic Training
September 9, 2007 at 9:32 PMOne thing that stood out to me was the word lo5 - 咯 I'm curious if this is a word that's often paired with Dang1Ran2 当然, because according to the dictionary, lo5 咯 is similar to le5 了, but implies something is obvious. So 当然 咯! Means, it's obvious obvious!
Posted on: How do you take your coffee?
September 8, 2007 at 3:51 AM要 is a more "demanding" version of want, from what I gather, while 想 is gentler and more polite. But I'm sure that it's exact tone can vary quite a lot, depending on the context.
Posted on: How do you take your coffee?
September 7, 2007 at 6:45 AM中国人怎么说"espresso"?
Posted on: Election Candidates
September 6, 2007 at 7:19 AMMy impression is that ordinary Chinese are not encouraged to know much about or participate in domestic politics. "Not encouraged" is probably putting it too mildly too. National politics is the exclusive realm of the Communist party leaders. However, they might hear and read more about politics of other countries because it's considered ok to analyze and criticize them. I'd be curious to hear from people who live there if that impression is wrong.
Posted on: Lesson
August 31, 2007 at 10:29 PMI'm seeing the same problem as excuter. The file length on both the 64- and 128 kbps files is about 290 bytes. It looks like they were somehow truncated.
Posted on: I'm hot!
August 30, 2007 at 12:17 AMAlso, these characters have the same problem: z ! ^ |
Posted on: I'm hot!
August 29, 2007 at 11:54 PMleeinengland, I am seeing exactly the same problem. Are you using Windows 2000 by any chance? I wasn't sure what was causing the cursor to get jacked around like this, but now that you mention it, yes, it's capital letters! But not all capital letters... just these - GHIJ NOPQ TUVWXYZ I have no idea why it's just those, but that could be a clue for the developers
Posted on: Volleyball
August 27, 2007 at 9:28 PMCafeva, At the upper left, click on Help, then on the left click on Technical Questions, then click "Writing Chinese Characters" and follow the directions there.
Posted on: Lost Cell Phone
January 12, 2008 at 1:29 AMIn the united states, we have many different cell technologies operating on different bands, and each cell carrier tends to use a different combination of technology and bands. To keep costs down, they make phones that work only on a limited number of combinations of these things, so the chances of you being able to switch from, say, Sprint, to Verizon, and keep the same phone is pretty close to zero. This is one thing that keeps you from switching services too.. you are locked in to the degree that you either like your current phone, or you don't want to spend money on a new one. I suspect that China has a more uniform system of band and technology than the U.S. does, making it easier and cheaper to make phones that work all over the country. However, you probably would not be able to take a Chinese phone and use it in the U.S. (for the reasons stated earlier), unless you were lucky enough to get a carrier with compatible technology.