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South China : 58 hours train ride in snowstorm

February 01, 2008 at 09:19 AM

--> 风雪58小时铁路干警实拍3000名旅客的春运之路旅客欣喜地拿到了补给食品（1月29日摄）。 1月27日18时30分从广州车站出发的广州至宜昌2286次列车，由于风雪及湖南段电力中断，严重晚点，原本18个小时的路程整整运行了58个小时，于 1月30日4时28分才抵达宜昌车站。本组照片的拍摄者作为襄樊铁路公安处的干警，... Read more

Best Chinese TV series for learning?

February 01, 2008 at 09:10 AM

大家好！I just finished watching 新上海滩, which I thought was a 很好看的电视剧 for an (upper) intermediate learner such as myself. The dialogue was relatively simple, the plot was... Read more

Japan : frozen Chinese dumplings food poisoning

February 01, 2008 at 08:56 AM

--> 中国“夺命”水饺在日本导致十余人食物中毒河北省天洋食品公司日本星期三（1月30日）傍晚传出千叶、兵库县至少有十人吃到含农药成分的中国制冷冻水饺几乎夺命的事件。由于事态严重，日本首相福田康夫当天晚间对记者们表示，已经下令相关部会首长紧急处理。另外，中国政府方面在接获日方的通报之后，也表示已开始调查这家河北省的天洋食品公... Read more

Is Computer Use Killing of the Art of Chinese Writing?

February 01, 2008 at 08:34 AM

The World's Tech Podcaast has a piece on the deterioration of Chinese written language skills and asks whether this can be due to the increasing use of computers... Read more

此袋非玩具

February 01, 2008 at 07:14 AM

Here is a small reading test.    警告请将此袋放在远离婴幼儿的地方，以免发生窒息的危险。请勿将此袋放在婴儿床，婴儿车和婴儿围栏里，此袋非玩具。请打结后扔掉。 Read more

Dear Chinesepod Overlords

February 01, 2008 at 06:29 AM

There was a wise businessman or economist who's name escapes me now...but he said something along the lines of, " big businesses fail because at one point t... Read more

Most Commonly Used chéng yǔ (成语 idioms)

January 31, 2008 at 04:28 PM

Okay, so I've been studying my vocab, yi bian practicing my pronounciation, yi bian going to the local chinese group in town. Now, I feel pretty good about this... Read more

It seems that we have to move.

January 31, 2008 at 12:20 PM

As far as I can tell, the "Contemporary Chinese Literature" group has turned inaccessible. Maybe it is because we kept posting to the only existing lesson, so that c... Read more

An exercise module for writing hanzi seems missing on CP

January 31, 2008 at 11:51 AM

Dear All, I'm just a Newbie on ChinesePod, hence might not have found yet all the features. On http://chinesepod.com/help/chinesepod%20Method/1...  writing... Read more

创世记 - 4; Genesis - 4

January 30, 2008 at 11:01 PM

Audio for all of Genesis (28mb) Chapter 4 - 12:05 to 16:12 1 有一日，那人和他妻子夏娃同房。夏娃就怀孕，生了该隐（就是“得”的意思），便说，耶和华使我得了一个男子。 2 又生了该隐的兄弟亚伯。亚伯是牧羊的，该隐是种地的。 3 有一日，该隐拿地里的出产为供物献给耶和华。... Read more