General Discussion

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Searching Conversations

January 18, 2008 at 11:04 AM
Forgive me if I'm missing the obvious, but how do we search conversations? Read more

Reading texts in Chinese

January 18, 2008 at 10:34 AM
On the ChinesePod affiliated 88groups, bokane is running a group called contemporary Chinese literature. We are reading a novella called "The golden age" b... Read more

88lessons x 88groups = 88news

January 18, 2008 at 08:57 AM
  This is to announce that I've just published the 88th lessons of my 88 news group. 2 read (Chinese) news Granted, only 82 are available, the remaining 6 w... Read more
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Long Time No See

January 18, 2008 at 04:15 AM
Is it 好久不见 (hǎo ji ǔ bú jiàn) or 很久没见 (hěn jiǔ méi jiàn)? I had only heard the former, but I just discovered the latter in my "Readi... Read more

A noun by any other name...

January 18, 2008 at 04:03 AM
Hello again!   All right, so I'm going to Shanghai in a few weeks and I'm going to drop in on the CPod folks of course, but when I'm not in their of... Read more
Lately it seems that a lot of posts have been in characters only, without any pinyin or translation.<br /><br />I'm wondering if people wouldn't... Read more
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