May I have the envelope please... 奥斯卡 Àosīkǎ (Oscars!!) Winners!

Mrs. Ken Carroll, me thinks!

Clockbean, DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING SHE SAYS! She is actually the co-owner of Praxis Language and the brainchild behind ChinesePod, etc. etc. etc. She doesn't want you to know she is one of them to be that helpful user that no one knows actually has all the power in the world at ChinesePod. (Oh wait, April 1st isn't for another two weeks... never mind)

Naa... I'm just saying she's Chinese, and a very helpful and nice one at that.

Rich,

Long time no see, how have you been? How's your HSk going?

Hi Clockbean,

I hope i were a staff from Chinesepod so. It would be awesome that if i can have a chance to work with Chinesepod Group.^_^

Rich is right, I am a chinese, a native speaker. I got to know Chinesepod by accident and then i falled in love with Chinesepod. I like and enjoy communicating with you guys. Thanks to Chinesepod, I did learn a lot from here.

Clockbean,

Thank you. Believe me, I am real and if you have any questions, feel free to ask, I will try my best to help you.

Cassie

Is Casie a staffer posing as a helpful user? Is that what you are hinting at Rich? Could it be true? Is Casie the catalyst sent to energise the user community cause she just seems too good to be true?!

Casie, I believe your Chinese is well beyond newbie level... ugh, like at native speaker level... ;)

Who you trying to kid here?

Hi Bazza and Rich

Thank you for considering me as the best supporting user. I will keep on trying my best!^_^

For me, i will consider myself as the best newbie最佳新人 here in Chinesepod community.^_^

Anyway, thanks to Chinesepod group that supply us such a good platform to communicate and learn from each other. Let's work hard and study hard together in this year. Go 2008! Go Poddies!

Congratulations to all the winners. You help make Chinese even more enjoyable through your contributions to Chinesepod. We applaud your efforts!

Maybe next year have the winners announced in a Dear Amber episode?? Just disovered this post now nearly 3 weeks after the point. I really like the concept, and I think its a fun way to reflect back on the finest moments that Chinespod and its user community have provided.

Thanks, but you give me more credit than I actually deserve. I believe it was actually Lustchina who came up with the idea. I'm just the crazy gal who couldn't live without Cpod for a week. :-)

Congrats to all, particularly to Baz, Henning & Amber. It is you guys that make this site fun!

Congratulations everyone, especially Henning, Bazza and Sparechange.

Thanks also to Lunetta for thinking of the Oscar idea in the first place!

...sparechange(USA) :-)

congrats to the winners, your contributions enrich the Cpod experience and make this virtual China we have here here a little more real!

As with the winners of the movie oscars, these statuettes mostly go abroad - to Germany(Henning), UK(Bazza), USA(Clay and John),Amber(Canada), Sparechange(?)

Does that make Jenny the only home-grown winner?

Well, Casie is always best supporting actress. :P

Gah, I was robbed! How's 连。。。都 going to help you when you're facing the squatter that God forgot?! :)

Congrats, everyone!

I was going to vote for Taipan's 'how many Chinesepod users does it take to change a lightbulb?' and casie as best supporting user. ;)

you still won Bazza, no need to vote for your own post... haha. Congratulations to you all!!!

Oops I didn't get around to submitting my votes I thought we had a bit more time.

Henning..."Character Points"..."Grammar Points"...etc. etc. etc. Your contributions are incredible and self-less. Thank you and congratulations!

Congrats to everyone else as well. 恭喜恭喜 !!

Wow!

I am sitting in a hotel room in Munich right now with only limited time at my hand, an instable Internet connection, and being handicaped by a slight Hofbräuhaus-conference-dinner aftermath.

I feel utterly dumbstruck as I did not at all expect or deserve this. There are so many outstanding users here - I got far more from the community than I gave.

But I already had my wife book a 烤鸭 restaurant in Beijing on Sunday to celebrate the Oscar (well, I would have gone anyway).

TaiPan: I bet your avatar was nominated, too, but was found to be too controversial in the end. :P

Henning, if your acceptance speech is more than 30 words, I'm cutting you off with music.

你们都太过奖了！

I'd like to give a shout-out to Bazza (at least I think it was Bazza), who started a conversation about favorite characters several months ago. I chose 龜. The rest is history.

I'd also like to thank azerdocmom, for talking me down from the ledge every time I think about jumping. ;-)

And, of course, all the CPod staff and user community. With your help, I will someday be able to use 了 correctly in a sentence.

Jenny: I'll be having my party at work tomorrow, where I'll spend half the day telling everyone I won an Oscar.

No post parties?

Bazza, Henning, and Sparechange, congrats, all well deserved. Maybe you should stick a "virtual statue" next to their avatars.

Will we get any the tear-soaked "thank you Mom" acceptance speeches?

Wow! Awesome! Really cool ! Congrats, Henning, Sparechange and Bazza! Woo-hoo! Very deserving winners in all categories !