Phelps thinks learning chninese not easy !
leapurcop
August 24, 2009 at 06:23 AM posted in General Discussion
At the recent 13th Swimming World Championship in August 2009, the U.S. “Flying Fish” Phelps won the championship easily in the 200-meter butterfly, shaving more than half a second off the world record. Phelps, who won eight gold medals in the 2008 Olympic Games, is also studying Chinese. He started studying Chinese before the 2008 Olympics, mainly through multi-media computer learning software, and he thinks that learning Chinese is not easy. Or is it? “Chinese and English are very different, ” said Todd Williams, a graphic designer from Pennsylvania, “when I started to learn Chinese, I had some difficulties and wanted to give up. But through persistence, I have found that it’s not that difficult to learn Chinese.” Juliet Page from Denver said: “The most important thing for learning a language is to use the right methods and practice persistently. Many people find it difficult because they are using the wrong methods. As long as you use the right method, it’s actually easy to learn Chinese.” Perhaps, for foreigners who are learning Chinese, difficulties always exist at the beginning, but as long as you know the rules of Chinese and use a scientific approach, you can find that it might not be that hard and could even be fun to learn Chinese.
tingyun
August 24, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Leapurcoop is an obvious spammer, just take a look at his other posts. He posts some "Chinese test" with a link to his site at the bottom marked "More", or ones similar to this post. He should have his account cancelled.
I think ChinesePod should have a "report spam" function for posts. Given how many overactive community members there are, any posts such as this would be quickly reported, and then CPod staff could spend 5 minutes twice a day reviewing the reported ones and then deleting the spam.
If they were getting too many false reports (and thus it was taking too long to do the review) they could select say, 10 of the more active/reasonable community members to be the only ones able to report spam (only having the power to report a post to CPod staff for review, not to delete it or in any way themselves decide on whether a post was allowed). That would likely keep reported spam being actual spam...
xiaophil
August 24, 2009 at 09:47 AM
leapurcop
Your link above is for a Chinese training center and has nothing to do with Phelps. Are you sure you aren't spamming?
xiaophil
August 24, 2009 at 01:56 PMI agree. Maybe this isn't tops on ChinesePod's list to do's, but I do think this kind of garbage is annoying.