User Comments - ElijahW
ElijahW
Posted on: Noodles and Child Labor
March 23, 2011 at 12:45 PM这孩子上学的话，还不会有什么童年乐趣！
http://chinesepod.com/lessons/child-parent-fight/dialogue
Posted on: Getting Married in China
March 7, 2011 at 9:38 AMMy wife and I paid 9 元 for our wedding license last year, but I read somewhere online that the price has gone down to 5. Anyone know if this is true?
Posted on: Inside the Baozi Business
February 7, 2011 at 12:55 AMI know a group of foreigners in Shanghai who for years have been pronouncing 生煎 as "shenzhen," just like the city. Got lots of Chinese people (and me!) confused when they said they wanted to eat 深圳.
Posted on: The Final Jizhou Pieces
February 5, 2011 at 2:53 PMI love series lessons! Zhang Liang and Lili was the best, and this one was fun too. I remember when Jizhou first came out, I was only a Newbie. So I had to wait.
I would really like to see more of these long stories on the Upper Intermediate or Advanced level.
Posted on: New Employee in the Office
February 2, 2011 at 1:30 AMPimsleur does a fantastic job with teaching speaking without interacting with another speaker, but there's a reason there are only 90 lessons and it's outrageously expensive: Planning those kinds of lessons is tremendously difficult and time-consuming.
Every time I meet a Chinese person with excellent English, I always ask them what their secret is. One time I met a guy who said he memorizes 10 English sentences a day and practices them until he can say them fluently. That's what I do with the Lesson Review mp3. Not only does it help me learn correct use of vocabulary and 词语搭配, but it's also the best tone practice I know.
I find it tremendously useful just the way it is.
Posted on: A Jizhou Child's Warning
February 1, 2011 at 2:48 PMThis lesson still has the old exercises.
Posted on: The Various Guises of "Until"
February 1, 2011 at 2:42 PMI'll throw in my 2 cents:
请问 is lots better than it was 4 years ago when I got serious about ChinesePod. I can tell that more thought and preparation goes into each lesson.
I felt this lesson did go a bit too far into frivolity, but it's not a big deal. It has happened before and will happen again. No problem. Laugh and move on.
Posted on: New Employee in the Office
February 1, 2011 at 1:55 PMNo kidding! A problem I've faced is not only vocabulary, but the fact that Chinese education (I live in China) seems to put no emphasis on public speaking at all. It's all about the characters and grammar, with most of my conversational ability coming from ChinesePod. Learning public speaking is a very slow process indeed.
Posted on: The Various Guises of "Until"
February 1, 2011 at 1:44 PMYou can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time, 中文怎么说？
Posted on: Dog Meat and Animal Rights
April 4, 2011 at 12:16 PM我吃过一次狗肉，觉得不怎么样。听说朝鲜族习惯吃狗肉。禁止吃狗肉算不算对朝鲜族歧视？