General Discussion

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Website is SLLLLLOOOOW...

February 04, 2008 at 04:06 PM
Anyone else finding the website extremely slow today?  It's making me feel like I'm in one of the new tone lessons when John makes Jenny's voice sup... Read more

Firefox support - 2

February 04, 2008 at 01:26 PM
-reposting this because it does not come up through the system....    Hello! I was just wondering if I am the only one experiencing problems using Firefox... Read more

Anybody familiar with traffic in Beijing??

February 04, 2008 at 12:43 PM
I need help. I will soon fly out from Beijing and am planning to train to Beijing from Chengdu. Does anybody know how much time it takes from the Beijing West Railwa... Read more

Reading Eileen Zhang

February 04, 2008 at 08:51 AM
The group "Contemporary Chinese Literature" at 88groups has  broken down  for technical reasons. We are not giving up Chinese that easily though.... Read more

China : weather conditions not improving

February 04, 2008 at 06:05 AM
--> 中国南方未来三天还将降雪 雪灾多方面考验中国 中国调动45万军人清除铁路上的积雪 中国南部地区的暴雪天气仍然未有停止的趋势,引发各方关注;请听本台驻北京特约记者周西的报道: 停电停水八天,湖南郴州已成一座黑城。中央气象台昨天下午六点继续发布暴雪橙色警报,未来三天中国南方大部分地区的降雪天气还将持续。有评论认为,面对这场空... Read more

www. and world wide web dot

February 03, 2008 at 08:30 PM
www. = 10 syllables to say www. = 4 characters to write. world wide web dot = 4 syllables to say!     Read more

An undeserved honour

February 03, 2008 at 06:19 PM
I see that I am top of the most active users list!! This is pretty wierd as I have hardly posted anything for some time.  But it's nice to be recognised Read more
I was just wondering if having url in Chinese characters would make sense. One could have things like 中文播客。中国 . Does that make sense at all? Would it make anything e... Read more

Untitled

February 03, 2008 at 09:18 AM
Original Article "to give someone a piece of one's mind" 美国习惯用语: 表示非常生气的习语 今天我们要给大家介绍两个表示非常生气的习惯用语。你有没有因为十分生气而对别人大发雷霆?美国人有一个说法是形容这种情绪的,那就是:to give someone a piece of... Read more

Untitled

February 03, 2008 at 09:18 AM
Original Article "to give someone a piece of one's mind" 美国习惯用语: 表示非常生气的习语 今天我们要给大家介绍两个表示非常生气的习惯用语。你有没有因为十分生气而对别人大发雷霆?美国人有一个说法是形容这种情绪的,那就是:to give someone a piece of... Read more