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ElijahW
Posted on: Mobile payments in China 移动支付遍布中国
January 29, 2019 at 9:47 PM不行，需要中国的身份证或者银行卡才可以打开支付功能。虽然我上大学的银行卡早就过期了，我有两年时间一直希望能把我微信支付的功能开通，但是上次去中国终于放弃了：因为我有旅游签证，银行不让我开新账户。别人把钱发给我也不行。
Posted on: Flowers and Bugs
January 29, 2019 at 3:10 PMGot it! I’ll try to reply today.
Posted on: Mobile payments in China 移动支付遍布中国
January 29, 2019 at 10:46 AM乞丐都在用二维码？原来我比无家可归的还落后。
Posted on: Flowers and Bugs
January 25, 2019 at 12:21 PMI don’t have a recording from this week, but if you email me I think I could find something.
elijah at keepingupwiththewangs dot com
Posted on: Flowers and Bugs
January 24, 2019 at 2:35 PMMy experience is that, just like English speakers can get lazy with English pronunciation, Chinese people can get lazy with the tones. But: When a Chinese person gets lazy with the tones, other Chinese people think it's still OK. When I get lazy with the tones, Chinese people laugh. It happened to me just a few days ago. I did some public speaking in Chinese, and suddenly everyone laughed for no reason I understood. I asked my wife later, and she couldn't remember exactly what the issue was, but she did remember it had to do with a wrong tone.
So, yes, tones do matter.
Posted on: Just Looking
January 24, 2019 at 2:32 PMThose are pretty tough for Newbie. Some of them are more like Elementary words.
Posted on: Online Group Shopping
January 20, 2019 at 12:12 PMI'm not able to get any of the tabs to work. Except "Comments," of course! Have you tried reporting it with the "Report a Mistake" button to the left?
Posted on: 2018 Google Most Searched News
January 17, 2019 at 10:20 PMYes, I definitely see your point there. The 50/50 ratio could be used more effectively.
Actually, this discussion reminds me of a guy who used to work for ChinesePod. He left after a few years in order to start his own competitor company. One of his nonnegotiables in his lessons was that no one should speak anything other than their native language: The Chinese speakers spoke no English, and the English speakers never spoke a word of Chinese. I think part of the idea was that if you heard a foreigner slaughtering the tones, it would throw off the students' tones, too.
He also objected to ChinesePod not focusing on HSK prep, so he made it central on his website. But... he had a huge problem: This was a decade ago. 2010 brought the massive HSK Revolution, which made most of his new website pretty much useless overnight. It never recovered. One more reason not to center curriculum around test prep!
If memory serves, you can still hear his voice at the beginning of many of the "Lesson Reviews" saying: "The ChinesePod Fix." I think he created that feature, and on the website it was initially called "The Fix."
Posted on: Online Shopping 网上购物
January 17, 2019 at 9:44 PMThe latest ones seem better. Hopefully that will continue.
Posted on: Mobile payments in China 移动支付遍布中国
February 1, 2019 at 5:00 AM我也有不给红包的好借口！
上次去上海，请了几个朋友去海底捞吃火锅，结账时我告诉了服务员：“我付现金”。
服务员一脸迷惑地去找另外一位服务员说：“那个老外要付现金，怎么办？”
他们俩再找了另外一位服务员，最后我看到了四五个服务员对于真个问题进行认真的讨论。时间不久以后第一个就回来了收我的现金。