User Comments - ElijahW
ElijahW
Posted on: Post-Graduation Plans
July 7, 2008 at 11:55 AMAnother great lesson as usual.
ChinesePod.com 真有出息，本事很大。比名牌大学好！
Posted on: Weather and Seasons
July 7, 2008 at 10:54 AMBased on the PDF transcript I have, it looks like Bob got his wish from 2 year ago.
Great lesson! An oldie but a goodie. I wish I did this lesson yesterday. For my 口语 exam today I said that I don't like wearing ties, especially in Shanghai where it's so hot. I wish I would have known to use the word 闷。
Posted on: Attitudes toward Religion
July 7, 2008 at 8:40 AMI'd like to reiterate Sam's comment about the titles. It would be nice if the Intermediate and Upper-Intermediate lessons had the title in Chinese as well as English.
Posted on: Chinese Seasonings
July 7, 2008 at 3:07 AMI think this is now my third time to go through this lesson. I just can't get my head wrapped around all those 调味料！今天学了，明天又忘了。
酱油，醋，辣椒酱，大蒜，麻油。
别忘了！别忘了！别忘了！
Maybe I'll play the Lesson Review mp3 on endless repeat for the next week or so.
Posted on: Adding Credit to a Cell Phone
July 5, 2008 at 1:00 PMI don't have much to say, but I saw that this poor lonely page hasn't been written on since 2006!
我差不多每个月买一张一百块的充值卡。我用移动。
Lantian: Not that you'll read this, and if you do you probably wouldn't want to follow such a tedious method... The way I remember new vocabulary from CPod lessons is to schedule all my lessons a month or more in advance. In iTunes I create a playlist of this month's dialogues, with each dialogue playing 3 times in a row. I then listen to the entire playlist every day for a month on my walk to school each morning.
Yes, it is a bit tedious, but it works. Also, now that I'm doing intermediate, the playlists are getting longer and longer.
What can I say? 我的记忆力特别差！
Posted on: Hiking
June 19, 2008 at 2:07 PMThis discussion reminds me of two classmates: One of them focuses on incredibly minute details about Chinese and gets angry when the teachers don't produce dissertation-quality answers based on sound linguistic research. The other hardly even opens his book.
The first student is quite frustrated outside of class, because when she speaks Chinese, Chinese people don't have a clue what on earth she's talking about. She complains that Chinese people don't even know their own language.
The second student has fun with the language. He constantly has Chinese people in stitches, making jokes and puns that only a few of my classmates can even understand (unfortunately, I'm frequently not one of them!).
Incidentally, I think Jenny's English is way ahead of some adult native speakers I know.
Posted on: The New Site and the Guided Plan
June 4, 2008 at 5:43 PMUpdating Safari fixed the problem!
Posted on: Free Association
June 3, 2008 at 3:24 PM我没想到这篇课文会给我这么好练习汉语的方法！我开始了跟中国朋友用电子邮件互相考试我们的自由联想。不知道自由联想会给病人什么样的治病，但是练习中文的时候非常好玩儿！
饺子会让你想到什么？
没有座位！我喜欢去东方饺子王吃饭，但是午饭的时候太挤了，需要去别的地方吃饭。
Posted on: I Don't Have the Strength (... 不动）
June 3, 2008 at 1:08 PMWe've been going over this stuff in class lately, along with 起来，出来, etc.
I'm finding verb complements bit challenging, so was glad for this extra help. Thanks!
Posted on: Language Power Struggle
August 27, 2008 at 3:02 AMThis conversation is soooo familiar. But some of my responses have not been very kind. So I've made the decision to help people who want to practice English while I'm around them.... and then try to spend as little time with them as possible.
I've actually found that some of the people who are the most serious about helping me with Chinese are former students toward whom I was most serious about helping with English.
As much as I cringed when I heard the person in the dialogue say 互相学习, sometimes it really does happen, but in my experience, not both ways at the same time. It's usually along the lines of: I teach them English for a year, then they teach me Chinese for a year.