General Discussion

Welcome to the group. This group is intended to help like-minded people study together.

Korea Phase!

April 17, 2012 at 05:51 PM
Why is Asia is a Korea phase at the moment?  I know their music is awesome but still don't they like their own stuff? K-pop at the moment is the best thing sinc... Read more

Progress Tab

April 17, 2012 at 01:40 AM
I just wanted to say that I really like the Progress(Beta) Tab.  Maybe it's just that I never thought to set specific enough goals, but before, I was just rando... Read more

Speaking mandarin in Shanghai

April 15, 2012 at 05:17 AM
Hi I may be moving to Shanghai from Shenyang and am a little worried that Shanghai ren may not speak mandarin in general. I have heard that they speak shanghai hua ?... Read more

Nice

April 13, 2012 at 01:55 PM
In English we often use the generic word "nice" to discribe a person.   Is there a way to say this in Chinese without any added meaning?  ie. He's a r... Read more

problems

April 12, 2012 at 02:37 PM
I am getting frustrated at the slow reaction time to my questions and the even slower response time to problems It took a week to answer my question about the proble... Read more
Ok, you jumped in whole hog, and started learning Chinese.  You found Chinesepod, and were thrilled with the lessons, and the content.  You were able to sp... Read more

到....去

April 10, 2012 at 06:42 PM
Hey everyone, I was just looking at a nice site with some directional compliments and came across the following sentence: 我很想到法國去 The meaning seems simple enough but... Read more

在国外用淘宝

April 10, 2012 at 04:51 PM
在国外用淘宝有一些棘手的问题(付钱需要中国银行卡,不接受paypall,有些卖家不愿意寄送到国外,就算愿意,很多不同卖家都寄送小包裹,邮费自然特别贵。。。) 为了帮一些住在国外的中国人解决这些问题(主要是邮费),有一些代购服务公司,像大家推荐我自己用过的,叫“乐趣购”,搜索名字就能找到。你能一样在淘宝找到... Read more

Join the ChinesePod Shanghai Meetup!

April 10, 2012 at 07:06 AM
I'm very excited to announce the ChinesePod Meetup on Saturday, 21 April in Shanghai!  Join and share your learning stories; meet the ChinesePod crew inclu... Read more