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New Tiny Players in the Vocabulary Sections

March 27, 2008 at 10:08 AM

Premium users may have noticed that the familiar round Flash players for each lesson vocabulary word have been replaced with a simple boxy one.  We have done th... Read more

We want more Zi Heng 子恒!

March 27, 2008 at 06:53 AM

Ok, maybe its just me, but I really enjoyed the interview with Zi Heng 子恒   http://chinesepod.com/lessons/experiencing-agric... .  I found it to be natural... Read more

Lesson Meta-data

March 27, 2008 at 03:09 AM

As we close in on a 1000 lessons, we are looking at ways to make older lessons more discoverable and usable. We currently have a lot of meta-data to describe lessons... Read more

China in the news

March 26, 2008 at 10:46 PM

Has anyone got any information on the "Danwei Planery Session" http://www.danwei.org/events/danwei_plenary_sess...  on China in the News? It looks lik... Read more

河莉秀

March 26, 2008 at 06:11 PM

Here's an interesting article and relates to the recent Advanced lesson on transgender issues. This must be a scientific first:   http://news.sympatico.msn.... Read more

China : vagrant woman gives birth in the street

March 26, 2008 at 02:04 PM

--> 东莞一流浪女当街产子记者赶到时,流浪女还躺在屋檐下,婴儿已抱上车抢救。婴儿在产房里不停地哭泣。一双黄帆布胶鞋、一摊鲜血、一股异味……这是一名女子当街产子后留下的现场。昨天上午10时许，在东莞长安镇厦岗社区入口处，一名流浪女子当街产下一名女婴。长安镇乌沙医院接报后迅速赶到现场，将已窒息的女婴抢救过来，再将母女二人一... Read more

五二一的八八八课

March 26, 2008 at 10:59 AM

If I'm not mistaken, and if CPod carry on with daily podcasts, lesson 0888 (〇八八八) will come out on 2008年5月21日。 Alright, so what ;-)  Read more

从 or 从中

March 26, 2008 at 09:54 AM

Hi all, I tried to be too clever for my own good and write a blog entry in Chinese. I sat down and put together a few sentences using some of the recent lessons I ha... Read more

期望, 希望, 渴望

March 26, 2008 at 09:31 AM

Does anyone know the differences between: 期望, 希望, 渴望 ?? Those three appear in Goulnik's 88news all over the place, they do not seem to be fully interchangeable,... Read more

France : Sarkozy urges China to hold talks

March 26, 2008 at 06:38 AM

--> 法国总统不排除抵制奥运开幕式萨尔科奇希望中国和达赖展开对话。法国总统萨尔科奇周二（25日）敦促中国政府在处理西藏骚乱事件上表现出责任感，但他拒绝排除抵制北京奥运会的可能。萨尔科奇说，"我不会拒绝任何可能，但我认为，只有在获悉有关情况的具体发展后我才会作出回应。" 他说："所有选择都有可能，但我呼吁中国当局表现出责任... Read more