General Discussion

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upgrade

September 10, 2007 at 01:23 PM
i just signed on as a basic user and then browsed around to see what else was on the website. When i went to look at grammer or vocab section, i was encouraged to up... Read more

Happy Teachers' Day!

September 10, 2007 at 11:06 AM
Today, across China, teachers received gifts from grateful students. Today was teachers' day, but one group of teachers didn't get any flowers, cards or choc... Read more

My First Day

September 10, 2007 at 07:46 AM
(This is from my blog. It's not specifically about Chinese Learning, but I just thought some poddies might be interested.)  I started a 4 month course at&nb... Read more

transation

September 10, 2007 at 07:18 AM
how do you translate ''The move is the latest part of an ongoing effort"? and can somebody provide me with some chinese learning websites for english sp... Read more

The Fix: NUMBER edition!

September 10, 2007 at 04:08 AM
For those of you that aren't closely following developments on the Integrated Chinese Blog , last Friday we added a special Fix just for reviewing numbers 1-10.... Read more

What I learned today...

September 09, 2007 at 11:50 PM
Picking up on last year's series, I will once again bother you with some of the vocab that impaced me during the day: 脊柱  jǐ zhù spine 摇篮歌 yáo... Read more

How long for dictionary entries to show up?

September 09, 2007 at 03:37 PM
Just curious to see how long it takes entries we make ourselves into the dictionary for them to show up elsewhere. There's only been once base where I've ent... Read more

Beijingismns

September 09, 2007 at 08:09 AM
For John.   OK, I don't know if these are "real" Beijingnisms, but I still haven't heard them at CPod yet. Take into accont the 儿 and chances... Read more
One of the aspects of the advanced lessons that I really enjoy is that they tend to have a number of chengyu and xiyu (idioms) that I wouldn't normally be expose... Read more

Arrived!

September 08, 2007 at 06:05 AM
I arrived in Beijing this morning. It feels like a constant pressure fueling with Chinese. The last year of CPod vocab echos back to me from all direc... Read more