Happy 600th Episode, ChinesePod! 恭喜恭喜！
rich
August 06, 2007 at 08:54 PM posted in General DiscussionJust want to congratulate ChinesePod on now having 600 episodes! (although I'm still trying to figure out where lesson #339 is, supposedly an advanced lesson no longer on here, and of course #350 "Hi Bob" wasn't actually a lesson)
Wow, that's like 150 HOURS at the least if each episode averaged 15 min (and I think the average is higher) plus the QingWen and all the Saturday Shows, Word on the Street, etc. to boot. Congrats, and thanks!
And now the 600th episode is on DVDs... what an interesting topic, even though I think the Pirated DVD episode is better in my book. :) The new Simpson Movie had me laugh when Bart wrote on the chalkboard in the opening "I will not illegally download this movie." (but he didn't say "I won't buy a pirated version of this movie in China", right?)
Keep up the good work, Jenny, Ken, John, Amber, 肖霞 and all the rest at CPod... you're the best! We look forward to many many more creative episodes to keep our Chinese learning on it's feet.
谢谢！
小明
P.S. Better get a 1-600 or at least a 501-600 lesson torrent file out for all our new poddies.
rich
August 09, 2007 at 05:48 AM
Well, I never did listen to any of the Fixes, I just got interested in seeing which ones I could download, so I don't if the *rv.mp3 files I downloaded actually matched the respective lessons.
As of how... well... that is where I also spend a lot of time online: I'm a programmer, so I have, out of not being able to make things easier for myself, written a script to generate my own XML podcast feed. So when I heard above how there were other Fixes below lesson 545, I just created a file giving ALL lessons a FIX mp3 file, and then the ones that downloaded without error I listed here.
Yeah, I too listen the best when I got my cell phone around my neck (like some people have their MP3 players) and my blue tooth earphone on, and biking down the street.... that is when I do my best Jenny-John-Ken listening (and seem to have a lot of questions then, but forget by the time I get back here). Like I even mentioned to John at our meet-up in May, that I for some reason can't get myself to find a use for scheduling lessons,vocab lists, and flashcards... I know, great features, and I have tinkered with them, but alas, never use them even though they probably would help me in "owning" more lessons, characters, grammar, etc.
Yet I still feel that paying for premium was the least I could do to help support a learning institute that gives us such a wonderful community like this, even if this part and the podcast is free... but I probably wouldn't be posting as much (maybe a good thing? ha ha) if I wasn't a paying member and one so interested in one day myself working in this field of teaching Chinese.
-R
lostinasia
August 09, 2007 at 03:50 AM
Helping out with that list above, although I couldn't find a fix for some of them (boy that's an odd sentence):
A0010 - how are you feeling?
A0011 - I'm upset
A0013 - I can sing, but I can't dance
A0019 - story time: likes and dislikes (but no "Fix")
A0020 - phone calls
A0024 - colors (but the barest bones of Fixes: just the male voice introducing each section.)
A0031 - all in the family
A0033 - paying the bill
A0034 - tone practice
A0048 - a correction of tones
A0051 - how YOU doin'
A0064 - lying in chinese
A0071 - useful phrases #1
A0117 - you look nervous
B0453 - tone rule: changes for 'bu' - but no fix?
C0529 - uncomfortable encounter in a bar - but no fix?
B0530 - I can't buy my size - but no fix?
D0531 - resisting relocation
A0532 - giving an example - but no fix?
C0533 - booking a plane ticket
B0534 - where children come from - but no fix?
F0537 - 豬肉漲價 (猪肉涨价) - but no fix?
B0538 - returning an item - but no fix?
C0539 - going on a diet - but no fix?
A0540 - two little tigers song - but totally mismatched and doesn't make sense.
Matching these was easy for me - just checking the track number in iTunes - but Rich, how in the good Jenny's name [sorry] did you find that list?!
And Rich, I know how you feel - ChinesePod is an absolutely amazing resource but I find I make my best use of it when I'm offline.
John
August 09, 2007 at 02:11 AMThanks, Rich! Duplicate lessons were a result of migrating lessons from an older production system to a new production system that has the Fix. Those duplicates are already gone, duplicates can be avoided in the future now. A Fix for every lesson? Yes, that is possible down the road.
rich
August 08, 2007 at 02:47 PM
Maybe there will be no storage to hold them all! Ack!!
Well, the materials i download as a premium users, downloading only pb dialog files (low-res instead of high-res...don't see the point of high-res, it isn't music ya all) all lessons from A - E down't even fit on a DVD-5 disc any more. Of course I probably shouldn't keep trying to accumulate all this stuff and just listen online... :P (but what I find I do online is write posts like this... not even flashcards and the like....still need to make use of this membership... someone tell me how... I need a Chinesepod accountability group...)
excuter
August 07, 2007 at 01:36 PM
Happy 600 lessons from me too =~)
may the lessons go on ´till they can not be counted anymore and from there to eternety... :-)
rich
August 07, 2007 at 01:26 PM
There isn't an "incrementally" to the list I just gave... it seems to be spotted, maybe to cover specific grammar/vocab?
Interesting that Advanced has no earlier Fixes, yet Media has one.
henning
August 07, 2007 at 01:18 PM
So is The Fix incrementally added to old lessons?
That would be really cool. .
rich
August 07, 2007 at 01:11 PM
Lessons with THE FIX before lesson 545 (in which then all lessons have them):
A0010
A0011
A0013
A0019
A0020
A0024
A0031
A0033
A0034
A0048
A0051
A0064
A0071
A0117
B0453
C0529
B0530
D0531
A0532
C0533
B0534
F0537
B0538
C0539
A0540
(as for how to easily find the discussion page among the piles of lessons via their lesson #, no way I see ChinesePod allows it...happy searching!)
leviathan
August 06, 2007 at 10:40 PM
Ｔｈｅｒｅ ａｒｅ ｆｅｗ ｄｕｐｌｉｃａｔｅｓ ｉｎ 〃lessons〃 under newbie
i think this is because they are updating!
eg Ken can't dance has the fix
http://chinesepod.com/learnchinese/i-can-sing-but-i-can%e2%80%99t-dance/discussion
a quote from ken, back then
"For any mistakes I do apologise. As you know ChinesePod is a young company with a dramatic history. What started with a group of 5 people has exploded into more than 30 in just a few months"
leviathan
August 06, 2007 at 09:56 PM
快乐６００th
Will chinesepod keep hosting Word on the street?
on extra.chinesepod.com, or will it be migrated to
lessons section?
rich
August 09, 2007 at 05:50 AMErr... correction: I never listened to any of the LOW NUMBERED lesson fixes (e.g. that list of Fixes). I do listen to the 545 and above Fixes and that is how I am finally "owning" characters, words and grammar... lovely. Amber is another favorite voice I look forward to listening to every day. I guess that makes my premium membership worth it too!