User Comments - AuntySue
AuntySue
Posted on: Good Morning!
December 11, 2007 at 5:40 AMWith cheating: This is really easy and quick. Right-click on the mp3 file for a lesson, and download it. Then click on what you downloaded, to play it on your computer any time. If you have a mp3 player you could copy the mp3 file over to there, too. That way gets boring after a while, though, because you have to remember to get the file each time. Podcasting, using the proper software, just means you don't have to remember to get the newest files any more, they come by themselves. Without cheating: Get a free podcast-fetching program, like either Juice or iTunes, and set it up on your computer. Read its instructions to see how, it's not very hard. Tell that program that you want the podcast that's at http://chinesepod.com/feed/public and tell it what time to go out and check each day for the latest new files. Then those files will turn up on your computer automagically whenever they are published. The special way for ipods: If you use an ipod, you'll have to subscribe to chinesepod at the itunes store site (it's free) so that you get everything in the right format to send it across to your ipod. I think that's sort of right, but sorry, I don't know anything about that stuff because I use a standard mp3 player that takes ordinary mp3 files. The efficient way: Subscribe to chinesepod and you get a personal feed. You can use the "Your Feed" link (on the bottom of chinesepod pages for subscribers) to set up which lesson levels you want to be sent to you, as well as extra stuff like PDFs and more. Then instead of telling your software to get the latest files from http://chinesepod.com/feed/public, now you don't. You tell it some other place which is the special one set up just for you. The Your Feed web page here will tell you what place to tell your software to go to, so you can copy and paste it in. You have many ways to choose from, including the few I've mentioned. It's up to you what suits you best. And no, none of us are experts, we all fiddled around until we found some way we liked and kinda stuck with it :-)
Posted on: 中国八大菜系
December 8, 2007 at 3:41 PMI didn't expect to understand a single word of this, and that was pretty true, except I did seem to recognise one word I thought I'd never hear here. Did I actually hear "Cantonese" mentioned?!
Posted on: Good Morning!
December 4, 2007 at 6:25 PMIt works fine for me. Can you download the mp3 files for other lessons OK? What browser are you using? Do you do a right-click with the mouse on the download link?
Posted on: Bazza and Dating Chinese Girls
December 3, 2007 at 6:11 PMOh, now I get it. I saw no comments here and thought this was a new one.
Posted on: Bazza and Dating Chinese Girls
December 2, 2007 at 5:55 AMStill 404. Oh the pain.
Posted on: Give Me a Kiss
December 2, 2007 at 5:48 AMAnother variant on learning characters by writing. Writing a single character several times drives me bonkers. I usually write it once to work it out, a second time to write instead of draw, then let it pop up repeatedly within sentences while copying out whole dialogues. That repeated unscheduled retrieval in context (with hints available when required) seems to make them stick to my fingers, and doesn't kill my smile. You also end up with a lovely page of real Chinese that doesn't look like a student exercise. You know, the sort of thing you can leave lying around to impress visitors ;-)
Posted on: Bazza and Dating Chinese Girls
December 1, 2007 at 7:06 AMThe mp3 file isn't there.
Posted on: Interviewing an Ayi
November 29, 2007 at 11:23 AMHey, not fair! I just started listening to this podcast, right, and they're talking about ants, cool, I hate ants they're a big problem, gotta be able to say that in Chinese, and I'm listening really hard because the word sounds just like ayi and they're not mentioning the similarity so it must be something really obvious to all the real Intermediates. Oh no... have I got the tones wrong? Are the tones completely different between ayi for aunt and ayi for ant and I've totally screwed it up in my head? Have I been saying ayi wrongly all along? Where's my dictionary... Hey wait, listen buster, what's this "she" business? How come he's assuming ants are female? Hmph, are you trying to say all nasty things female, punk, I'll wipe that smile off ya... Hey now they're talking about domestic ants and so on, yeah ok so what about the soldier ants, when we get to them will he still be saying she? That'll fall flat, haha... oh... aaaahoooh... what?... ahumm... raaaht. So... what's, the difference, between aunt and ant in American?
Posted on: Good Morning!
November 25, 2007 at 1:10 AMWelcome, Roger, I'm really pleased you have joined us. Anyone with a Chinese wife called Jenny must have excellent taste! You should find here everything you need to launch your Chinese studies, including how to say sweet things to your wife. There's a great community of fellow students (like myself) who love to help each other. Join in some of the conversations if you have time, and get to know us, because we'd like to get to know you too.
Posted on: Most Frequently Asked Question in China
December 12, 2007 at 9:29 AMThey're so when you get angry you don't have to flame, you can just "clip" their ears, or "trash" their house, depending on the degree of... No... wait... it's not that at all. I think something very magic just happened!