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Posted on: Sales Part 3: Handling Difficult Leads
February 03, 2013, 09:34 AMGrambers
After listening to the lesson a few more times, I'd like to say that I now agree with your request - anyone who can understand this content can easily understand Jenny (and even John) if they stayed true to one language when explaining the content.
So Chinesepod team, could you please stay with Chinese for the Upper Intermediate classes? The explanations in Chinese are good enough to get a feel for the content. For those points that are still a problem, perhaps they can be addressed in this forum.
Posted on: Sales Part 3: Handling Difficult Leads
February 02, 2013, 10:06 AM这个课非常好！！
因为不是一个简单的故事，而是一个现实的对话，所以有点难。在办公室里，我常常碰到这种对话。
这样的课（现实的对话）有用！
Posted on: Sales Part 3: Handling Difficult Leads
January 26, 2013, 04:18 AMGrambers,
I find that, in Shanghai, this happens a lot - people mix Chinese and English in a single sentence.
Sometimes, it's necessary - Chinese is an evolving language and sometimes there isn't a good Chinese word to express and idea, esp technical or specialized terms.
Sometimes, English words are thrown in because the speaker feels it's more sophisticated - just as English speakers have incoporated foreign words into English even when there is a valid English word.
But I agree - when learning a language, esp one that is so fundamentally different than English, best to stick with the target language.
Researchers have done MRI's of people speaking Chinese vs English and... no surprise, we use different parts of our brain for each language.
So, if your brain needs to jump to different locations when the speaker splices two languages in a dialogue, I think this can disrupt the learning process.
I personally would vote for all upper intermediate (and above) classes to use 100% Chinese.
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July 03, 2009, 05:33 AMThis is a great lesson - can you do more on Tai Ji? If you could do all the major steps, that would be perfect!
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July 02, 2009, 07:22 AM对不起， “入住” 什么意思？
Posted on: Sales Part 3: Handling Difficult Leads
February 03, 2013, 09:34 AMGrambers
After listening to the lesson a few more times, I'd like to say that I now agree with your request - anyone who can understand this content can easily understand Jenny (and even John) if they stayed true to one language when explaining the content.
So Chinesepod team, could you please stay with Chinese for the Upper Intermediate classes? The explanations in Chinese are good enough to get a feel for the content. For those points that are still a problem, perhaps they can be addressed in this forum.