General Discussion
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Listen to Amber and Connie
June 07, 2007 at 02:01 PM
You can hear Amber and Connie are in audio format over at the Praxis Blog, discussing how to use the 'qi lai' construction, as in the expression, '...
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Online Chinese English Dictionary
June 07, 2007 at 11:10 AM
Hey guys, I've been Chinese podding for over a year now.. Just for fun I decided to make an new interface for Erik Peterson’s free and really cool online C...
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What Chinese phrases do you like best or use the most often?
June 07, 2007 at 09:51 AM
Since I started to listen to cpod my phraselist grew. And naturelly there where some that stuck. my recent top 3 are: 固定地定 - gu ding de ding 有没有 - you mei you...
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中文谚语Chinese proverb
June 07, 2007 at 09:13 AM
A bad beginning makes a bad ending. 不善始者不善终。 A bad thing never dies. 遗臭万年。 A bad workman always blames his tools. 不会撑船怪河弯。 A bird in the hand is worth than two in th...
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中国茶文化Chinese Tea Culture
June 07, 2007 at 08:48 AM
"When a guest comes to my home from afar on a cold night, I light bamboo to boil tea to offer him." — Ancient Chinese poem. China is the...
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Eight Cuisines in China 中国八大菜系
June 07, 2007 at 07:48 AM
中国八大菜系 中国菜肴在烹饪中有许多流派。其中最有影响和代表性的也为社会所公认的有：鲁、 川、 粤、 闽、 苏、 浙、湘、 徽等菜系，即被人们常说的中国“八大菜系”。一个菜系的形成和它的悠久历史与独到的烹饪特色分不开的。同时也受到这个地区的自然地理、气候条件、资源特产、饮食习惯等影响。有人把“...
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polysyllabic characters
June 07, 2007 at 03:41 AM
I was reading a book on the Chinese language the other day and I ran across an example of the mythical (to me at least) polysyllabic character. The character w...
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Listening and learning
June 06, 2007 at 02:46 PM
I've written a blog post on listening in the learning process, over at Praxis. Feel free to comment, tear it apart, whatever.
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My friend is Chinese and want to learn mandarin....
June 06, 2007 at 12:41 PM
Do you know of any good free sites that she can listen to words also?
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How do you use vocab tags?
June 06, 2007 at 11:18 AM
I really think that the vocab functionality remains a half-buried treasure, in the sense that it is a record of your passage through the lessons, and represents the...
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