User Comments - zhong_bide

Posted on: Street Food Buffet

Thanks for this video - appreciated.

Now, can someone tell me what is the real price of these delicacies?

Posted on: Making Negative Comparisons

I always appreciate Qing Wen (and lots of other stuff on CPod).

I would really appreciate a QW on the 2 zuo4's sometime - 做 and 作。I have trouble working out the difference in meaning, and knowing which should be used where.

Posted on: Trip to the Vegetable Market

I remember seeing cucumbers like the one Andrew has shown - ones with a prickly appearance, although these days I only ever see the smooth ones.

There are many varieties of cucumber apart from the smooth skinned, cylindrical, unripe, green form most of us are used to.  Cucumbers turn yellow when ripe, but the common ones are not pleasant to eat when ripe - too bitter.

I also remember "apple" cucumbers a long time ago; they were spherical in shape.

See wikipedia for more details of cucumbers:

Posted on: At the Hair Salon

Great stuff! Keep it up.

Posted on: Afraid of Dogs

I cannot get any audio for the "listen & type" in the expansion.

Posted on: Traffic

John B,

Here are some ideas I'd like to see in a video format:

street food items - and asking their cost.

cooking - with action words and equipment vocab.

clothes in the markets

furniture in the home, plus turning switches on/off

bathroom and toilet items and associated actions (not the disgusting ones), but including cleaning/ washing/ shaving/ etc.

classroom teaching - writing in a book, beginning class, finishing and leaving, cleaning the board, sitting and standing, listening, asking etc etc

mail : getting stamps, affixing, posting

the vegetable market - names of fruit and vegies, asking prices

the hairdresser - asking for different haircuts- and the results

Thanks!

Posted on: Pretty Clothes

Johns,

The "boot" is the rear end of sedans in Australia as well, and I assume other countries.  You wear a bonnet on the top (front end) and boots at the bottom (rear end) - hence the imagery.

Posted on: Language Power Struggle

Thanks to all who responded to my question about what native speakers actually mean by the phrases.

Posted on: Language Power Struggle

Could the native Chinese speakers perhaps explain why Chinese people say such things as "I think chinese is very difficult for you" and "Your Chinese is very good" - when it obviously isn't.  TIA

Posted on: 会 (Huì) and 能 (Néng) Face-off

While there used to be a distinction between "may" and "can", in common use language in Australia, "can" is now used almost exclusively - so I agree with acorrigan's point.  In  that regard, let me also predict that "alot" will become a word with the next 20 years, replacing "a lot" - some readers will be surprised that "alot" is actually incorrect!  I have seen "alot" spelt that way a lot on Chinesepod itself, and I am constantly correcting my students for the error.